zimmt Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 When using an Outline Effect on some text and zooming out, Affinity Designer appears to cut off the text strangely. The more one zooms out the less the text shows. This causes File Thumbnails to basically show no text if the file contains large artboards. And when the file is open one has to zoom in to see the outline rendered correctly. This is using a 1px white centered outline on the bottom text in the screenshots. Screenshots shown are at 3 different zoom levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Hi @zimmt Would you be able to upload your document and the font you are using to dropbox please? https://www.dropbox.com/request/AqoOUeJG8I6iFChwHeYH Let me know when you've done it and I'll take a closer look. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted June 17, 2020 Author Share Posted June 17, 2020 Just saw the post. File is uploaded. When zooming out to about 25% the effect becomes visible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Hi @zimmt Thanks, I've got the file you uploaded but you forgot to add the font. I can't recreate the issue without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 hour ago, SPaceBar said: Hi @zimmt Thanks, I've got the file you uploaded but you forgot to add the font. I can't recreate the issue without it. Try here. SPaceBar 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 Very good sleuth 😉 But the file I uploaded just has Arial which ales exhibits the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Thanks @Alfred I did think it looked familiar. 👍 Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 HI @zimmt Your file looked fine for me using Arial which is why I wanted to check your original font. I can still see it at 25% zoom. When I select 10% it disappears. I changed the text to your original font and I can see that this does happen at 25%. This is actually by design as when Filter FX are displayed they're applied to the size the objects appear on the page (I believe this is to help with speed). So when you zoom out the text is much smaller so the white outline appears stronger. The more you zoom out the more you see the FX. This will be more prevalent on thinner fonts which is why Arial was fine for me at 25%. I've seen this before in other packages which is why thumbnails often look different to the larger file. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 Thank you for the clarification. It would be nice if higher resolution thumbnails would be an option at some point. SPaceBar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 A certain disappearance can be especially desired by design if a contour becomes assigned to text ... ... but you may get more quality while working (and export *), with a stroke instead of an effect. * because effects will get rasterized. text stroke vs effect.m4v SPaceBar 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 Thank you Thomaso. Unfortunately a stroke is not an option for cursive fonts as it will surround each letter instead of the word as a whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Hi @zimmt I remember, before layer effects were a thing we had to work the text a bit more. Have you tried adding an additional text layer on top so the effect isn't actually on the same layer as the text? This is how I used to make my text show up in thumbnails. Obviously some designs work better than others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 That's an interesting solution. Not sure how well this works with an effect to reduce a font though. Another workaround is creating a copy, converting it to curves, joining them all, adding an inside stroke, removing the inner fill, and then setting the filter to Erase. But that is too much work for production files where text is frequently changed. I have also moved away from FX on fonts as it causes color shifts for me once they get rasterized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Minimum Blur in Affinity Photo will reduce the thickness of the text. It rasterises the text for you and then you can select how much you want to reduce it by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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