gskidmark Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Having an issue in Designer where text spaces are exceptionally wide. See image. This is one of those issues that occur sometimes. It seems to appear and go away. I figure I mistakenly hit some mysterious keyboard combination that causes it to come and go. Any idea what causes this and how I can I can fix this? Clarification: I am not referring to the tracking between the letters but the extra large space between JACKSON and HOLE. That is a single space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Looks like you have set the Justification to Full Justification. Try putting a Right indent tab in instead of a space. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gskidmark Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 I found that in the Paragraph tab there is a setting called "Desired Word Spacing". As you can see it is set to 293% which is the cause of the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Odd, I cannot get more than 250% for those settings. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gskidmark Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 Odd indeed. I can not get it back to 293% now. I never purposely set it so I have no idea how it got to 293%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 4 minutes ago, gskidmark said: Odd indeed. I can not get it back to 293% now. I never purposely set it so I have no idea how it got to 293%. Probably a copy paste carry over from some time in the past. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 "Desired word spacing" can't go beyond "Maximum word spacing". You have to set "max..." first (which goes up to 400%). Alfred and R C-R 2 Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 If the image layer above the text isn’t rectangular, and a portion of it comes down near the text, and the image has Text Wrap set, and the text is in a Text Frame, then the large gap may be due to the software moving the “HOLE” out of the way of the image. Lots of “ifs” but worth mentioning and checking. See attached video for a better explanation. 2020-07-15 09-45-21.mp4 Fixx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Basically that just looks like you have tracked text to have a lot of space between letters, and also set test to Justified. Thus all extra space that is left over from tracking is poured to word spacing, making space between words big. (This is so simple explanation that I think there is something else happening that makes OP mystified 😉 ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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