Ami_M Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 When I add artistic text to my document, it is appearing completely transparent. The colours are set and opacity is at 100%. I can copy and paste other pieces of artistic text as they appear fine, so I must be doing something wrong! I've attached a picture of my workspace below, it's probably pretty obvious and I'm just missing something... Thank you for any help in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 It appears to me that the letter 'g' is too large to fit in the frame. You may have set the scaling to something like 300% because a 58 pt letter should apear in that frame. Ami_M 1 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...
Ami_M Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 Hmmm... How would I go about changing the scaling? When I go to input artistic text, it appears like this as I am dragging: I would have thought from the preview it's something I've done making it transparent. I've never had a problem with creating text too big before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 To me it looks like the letter "g" has no size. The box appears to be empty. The 58 pt are for the leading. Old Bruce 1 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Good catch Joachim, I looked and looked but was overlooking. Also my suggestion about scaling was wrong, the text fame will resize if you scale Art Text. Ami_M 1 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...
Ami_M Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 Just tried again and a size is showing in the box, but still it's transparent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Have you tried a different font? Ami_M 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ami_M Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, carl123 said: Have you tried a different font? Just tried with Open Sans and Arial, same happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Could you Select All on that spread and make a new document with just the two Pages (make the new document 3 pages so you'll have a two page spread) and paste the contents from the spread and see if it is still happening. If it is still happening post the document here. Ami_M 1 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...
Staff MEB Posted July 28, 2020 Staff Share Posted July 28, 2020 Hi Ami_M, With the text selected click the Transparency Tool. Do you see any controls appearing on the canvas? Is the Type dropdown set to None in the context toolbar? Set in to None if that's not the case. Seems you have inadvertently applied transparency to the text... Old Bruce and Ami_M 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ami_M Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 2 hours ago, MEB said: Hi Ami_M, With the text selected click the Transparency Tool. Do you see any controls appearing on the canvas? Is the Type dropdown set to None in the context toolbar? Set in to None if that's not the case. Seems you have inadvertently applied transparency to the text... This was it! Thank you so much to everyone for your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 6 hours ago, MEB said: Seems you have inadvertently applied transparency to the text... As already required - the use of the Transparency Tool should be visible in the Layers panel. Otherwise, it is a completely secret operation. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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