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SOLVED: Setting HTML fallback fonts using HelpNDoc and it's not pretty

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We've recently come across a problem with setting a failback font for the HTML output of HelpNDoc. By default HelpNDocs styles are configured to use Default Font  this is built into the application as Arial  and cannot be changed. HelpNDoc's default style By default HelpNDoc's Normal  style is set to Default Font  as seen above. You can change this font but only to a single font.  Setting the font to something like 'Segoe UI', 'Calibri' will appear to work but fail silently on output. HelpNDoc's style editor If you set the font on the content to - for example Calibri  this will set the font correctly in Word, CHM, etc however for the HTML content the following will occur. The main-content  class will remain as the system default of Arial  with some fallbacks automatically added. The Calibri  font will then be set over and over again on all paragraphs that use the Normal  style. This makes it impossible to override the font on main-conte...