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Help with Curved test - Unable to remove node or reduce opacity without removing text


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Hello! I've used the nodes (i believed they're called), to write curved text. However, the curved text is written, and the outline of the node is visible (even in preview mode and when exporting).
I've tried to watch tutorials but no one explains how to remove these nodes without removing the text. Some have changed the opacity but when trying this the text is lightened as well as the node.

Please help! An image below to show what I am referring to. the line under 'and still,' - how do i remove this/ and is this called node?

 

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20 minutes ago, 1PG said:

Please help! An image below to show what I am referring to. the line under 'and still,' - how do i remove this/ and is this called node?

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @1PG. :)

The line under ‘and still’ is a path. The nodes are the white (unselected) circle and the blue (selected) square at the ends of the path. The path and its nodes should be invisible on export.

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ah thank you Alfred!! A Path! I will update :) So that's what I thought too  - it would be invisible on export, but it is not :( 

I've attached a photo to prove it! this is an image of the export as a PDF for print. ... !?

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You don't say which Affinity application you're using - is it Publisher?

If so, then one possibility is to display the Text Frame panel (View menu, Studio, Text Frame) and make sure that the stroke width is set to zero.

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By default mine was set to 0.2pt. This very fine line is barely visible when the path is selected as the blue path line obscures it, but is noticeable when the page is exported to pdf.

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thank you so much everyone for your quick replies! I'm so grateful!

Yes - it's affinity publisher.

I have done both suggestions as above, however nothing has changed. I've attached screen shots.

When exporting the line is still there.

If i change the other circle (that is black ) to the white the words 'and still' disappears.

I will perhaps remove the line completely and then try it again...!? but just very odd and annoying to not know where it's going wrong.

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Perhaps you could provide us with a sample .afpub file we could examine? And what you exported from it that still showed the line?

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5 hours ago, 1PG said:

Hello! I've used the nodes (i believed they're called), to write curved text. However, the curved text is written, and the outline of the node is visible (even in preview mode and when exporting).
I've tried to watch tutorials but no one explains how to remove these nodes without removing the text. Some have changed the opacity but when trying this the text is lightened as well as the node.

Please help! An image below to show what I am referring to. the line under 'and still,' - how do i remove this/ and is this called node?

 

Go to the Text Frame panel and change the stroke to none there. Top is on .9 points and the bottom is to 0.0.

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Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 
Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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There is an opposite problem in Designer in that we cannot make the path take a stroke. (tip: duplicate the path and give one the stroke then put the text on the other stroke and group the pair)

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 
Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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37 minutes ago, 1PG said:

what's an .afpub file sorry.. :) please let me know so i can learn!

It's the native file format you get when you Save a document from Publisher. But as you've solved the problem, it's not needed now :)

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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