I am the Mac specialist on the LayOut team, so you’re in the right place!
I am seeing the same behavior that you describe when I follow this workflow:
- Activate the Dimension tool
- Open the Font panel
- Click on the Text color icon to bring up the color chooser
- Choose a color
- Create a dimension - the text will not be the desired color.
This looks like a bug to me, I will investigate.
Luckily there is another way to set the style for a tool using the “Sample” tool. First, create a dimension, then adjust the style so that it has the exact appearance that you want. Next, switch to the “Dimension” tool. Finally, press ‘s’ to activate the style sampler and click on the dimension that has the desired style. The mouse cursor should change to an eyedropper, then should change back to the dimension cursor when you click on the dimension. This workflow tells the Dimension tool to adopt the style of an existing dimension. After these steps, any dimension created should match the one you sampled.
This “sampling” ability also works with entities in the scrapbook. So, if there are several styles that you like to switch between, you can create a scrapbook that contains representative dimensions, and then sample the style from whichever one you want. This may be more convenient than manually changing the style on a case-by-case basis.
I’ll get the first issue filed into our bug tracking system so we can investigate. Please report back about your results with the alternative workflow.
Thanks,
Marc