The twin sibling of this bug is that if you change the formatting of a piece of text through script:

1. The change will not be visible in the GUI until you adjust the zoom level, and
2. strangest of all, if you then return to the original zoom level, you will find yourself staring into the past, and looking at an earlier snapshot of the document's state ...

(This certainly applies to the font, size, and shadow of text - I haven't tested it for other properties, but it may well apply to them too ...)

[UPDATE it even applies to the wording of text itself - what you see on the editing screen may not be what shows on the Presentation screen, or in print ...]

Something is architecturally amiss here ...

• Sometimes the screen is deceiving users about the state of their data,
• and sometimes the Applescript interface is deceiving them ...

Good enough for idle play, but is it good enough for professional work ?

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