+font? Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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+font? Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Stroke color does not batch-change the color of the typewriter text – in fact, it seems to do absolutely nothing, just as with stamps.

You actually have to enter each typewriter box manually to change the color :(

Please check if the case is the same for text boxes.

Also, why not enable "font type" and "font size" as style properties you could change?
It's really useful to be able to change properties of multiple comment elements at the same through the "comments"-pane.
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Re: Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Re: Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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But I understand that for typewriter and textbox text it is called fill color, not stroke color.

For text boxes you're only able to change fill color and stroke color of the text box itself! It would have been nice to be able to change the text properties (color, size and font) – as well as underscore/italic/bold properties.

Still referring to selecting multiple comments in the comments pane and changing the properties, unless you can tell me about some other way to batch-change such properties in multiple comment elements simultaneously.
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Re: Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Hello all,

These tickets created in the following topics may be similar to the request at the beginning.

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Re: Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Hello rakunavi,

Thanks for sharing those! Indeed it appears like the above request is related!

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Re: Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Hi All,

There is a workaround.

For strokes and others: Group typewriter items. Select the group and change it in one go.

To change the font, again after grouping the typewriter items, apply a "text style" you have copied.

Important: If your text style is not uniform, e.g. one word is in bold, another in italics, one sentence is a different colour, another sentence is a different size, the text contains different fonts, etc. the text style cannot be applied as is.
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Re: Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Hello Toygun,

Thanks for sharing your method as well!

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Re: Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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yet another workaround is to use this javascript tool when you have the markups selected:

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Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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:)
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I still insist that
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you add fill color, stroke color thickness/width to the properties pane regardless of what comment style is selected.... e.g. here when I have a rectangle chosen I have "fill color, stroke color, border style, border width, opacity, but many of those options disappear when I have comment types (in addition to rectangles) selected:
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Re: Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Hello MedBooster,

I believe we already have a feature request for that.

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Re: +font? Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Edit batch-changing the font of selected comments would also be very useful

we've discussed it a bit here in this other thread:
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Re: +font? Batch-change color of typewriter text/comment elements (properties)

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Hello, MedBooster

Yes, batch editing of text characteristics inside of selected comments is an ongoing item. We do have a ticket for it, as Stefan mentioned, and while it is not currently a high priority, I will ask the team to renew focus on this area.
RT#4577: FR: Edit text format of multiple comments
As per usual, tickets are internal only, so you can ask any member of the support team for updates in the future.

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