Themes, Styles and Fonts reverting to Adobe defaults from Saved Project.
November 12, 2019
Themes, Styles and Fonts reverting to Adobe defaults from Saved Project.
November 12, 2019
BS in Simulation and Digital Entertainment, MS in Learning and Technology Working as an Instructional Designer/eLearning Developer over 10 years of experience. 
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I am creating a template using Adobe fonts. I have saved the theme and the template however, when I open the project, the saved theme, or the template the project reverts back to the Adobe default. The project, template, and theme are saved directly on my Windows pc.

When this occurs, I have to reopen Adobe fonts and reset the styles in my project. Is there a way to prevent the fonts from reverting back to the default? I assume this is happening due to updates on my system or network but am unsure.

To be clear, I have set the styles to the desired font from Adobe fonts and saved the theme. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Dec 7, 2022
Dec 7, 2022

I’m not the original poster, but I am experiencing this same problem. I create my theme and save it to my PC. After a few days of working in Captivate I find that my theme colors and fonts are gone, reverted back to the Captivate defaults. This time, only a few of my theme slides are affected instead of all of them reverting. I’m using version 11.8.0.586. Any help on this is appreciated!

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Dec 12, 2022
Dec 12, 2022
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Rochelle Miller
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First of all I have to tell you that I still use version 11.5 since version 11.8 seems to have more quirks from what I read in all forums.

You post this to an older thread and 11.5 which was released later introduced big changes in the use of Themes. It is now possible to have multiple themes in one project, which can be great but also leads to lot of issues as I learned during multiple consultancy jobs. Did you read this post?

https://blog.lilybiri.com/themes-are-time-savers-what-is-new-in-11-dot-5

Based on your sentence: “..only a few of my theme slides are affected instead of all of them” I wonder if you checked if those affected slides are not using a different theme? Even if you saved a custom theme (in this version?) using the Themes menu, did you apply that theme to all slides from the big button Theme?

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Nov 20, 2019
Nov 20, 2019

You always need to have the Creative Cloud app open when working with Captivate. Is that the case? If the theme you are using has been created in a previous version, did you save it in the recent version? There has been quite a lot changes for themes in 11.5.

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Nov 20, 2019
Nov 20, 2019
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Lieve Weymeis
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Everything is saved in the 11.5 version and yes I find that I have to keep Creative Cloud open. The fonts have been assigned in the theme and the file is saved in my local files. If I go to edit the theme and I don’t have Creative Cloud open, it either says that my fonts are missing or it just reverts back to the default fonts.

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Nov 17, 2019
Nov 17, 2019

Sorry to insist, but I am really anxious to know exactly what happens in your case. Please, answer my questions.

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