Text is created with black background

[CPritchard]

Hi,

I've been using Affinity Designer for awhile now, and just today it has started putting a black background on any text I create (both frame tool and artistic). 

I go to the character palette, and the background color is set, but it is not black. The frame background is black ,and there is no way to change this.

I tried relaunching Designer, and it is still happening. If I convert the text to curves, I get the text object and another object that is a black box. 

What can I do to stop this from happening??

Thanks,
Colin

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, CPritchard said:

black background on any text

I don't know, but the text in your image doesn't have a black background. Its background color corresponds to the color selected on the Character panel. Black is the background of the frame. Your fill color is set in APublisher (Text Frame panel). 

[CPritchard]

Yeah, I know. Sorry for using the wrong terminology.

This is in Designer not Publisher. There is no Text Frame panel in Designer.

[kwaaui]

Just started happening to me, too. It's only happening in one document, I tried making a new document and text works fine. But I can't put new text in the document I'm working on without a black background any more.

macOS 10.15.6
Affinity Designer 1.8.4

[walt.farrell]

With the misbehaving text frame selected, click the Revert Defaults button:

Or Edit > Defaults > Revert.

[kwaaui]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

With the misbehaving text frame selected, click the Revert Defaults button:

Or Edit > Defaults > Revert.

Thanks Walt, much appreciated. Any clue about how did that happen in the first place?

[walt.farrell]

Just now, kwaaui said:

Thanks Walt, much appreciated. Any clue about how did that happen in the first place?

You're welcome. If you're absolutely sure you've never edited that document in Publisher, then I have no idea.

[CPritchard]

Thank you Walt!! That fixed it. Much appreciated.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[kwaaui]

57 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You're welcome. If you're absolutely sure you've never edited that document in Publisher, then I have no idea.

I am, I haven't got Publisher.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks, @kwaaui. In that case, if you can figure out what you did that caused the problem, it would be good documentation for a bug report. Creating that situation should not be possible using only Designer or Photo, as far as I know.

[MEB]

12 hours ago, kwaaui said:

Thanks Walt, much appreciated. Any clue about how did that happen in the first place?

Hi @kwaaui,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Have you have assigned black as the background colour in the Character Panel (second colour well on the right of the font style dropdown)?

[CPritchard]

@MEB If you look at the screen capture I posted at the start of this thread, you can clearly see the background color from the character panel is separate from the frame bg color. I also never opened my document in Publisher. It was created and edited only in Designer. I am also on the exact same system specs as @kwaaui

[MEB]

Hi CPritchard,
Your case may be different from @kwaaui (to which i was referring to in my reply above and didn't post any screenshot). Can you please attach the afdesign file for inspection please? Thanks.

[kwaaui]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Thanks, @kwaaui. In that case, if you can figure out what you did that caused the problem, it would be good documentation for a bug report. Creating that situation should not be possible using only Designer or Photo, as far as I know.

I tried to understand what happened, but I was just adding text fields above artboards in order to export the whole document with artboards' titles included. At some point, while dragging a text box, I started seeing the black background

[GarryP]

CPritchard: I think part of the problem here may be that the image you gave in your first post does not match the problem you describe in the text.
For example, you say the text has a transparent background but in the image it has a geen-ish brown background.
It’s often difficult to diagnose problems where the image and text of the problem don’t match.
Also, it’s usually best to give a full-screen screen-grab which also shows your Layers Panel with the problem layer selected and visible in that panel.

The more we have to work with, the quicker we can find an answer for you.

[kwaaui]

2 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi CPritchard,
Your case is different from @kwaaui (to which i was referring to in my reply above). Can you please attach the afdesign file for inspection please? Thanks.

@MEB I had the same situation as @CPritchard, the background well in the Character Panel was set to transparent; I set it to a colour and then back to transparent to give it a try, but that only affected the line of text, not the whole text box. Once I clicked the Revert to defaults button, after @walt.farrell's suggestion everything was back to normal 

[CPritchard]

@GarryP Yes, I added the screen capture after I posted. So, the problem I describe does not match the screen capture exactly.

@MEB My issue is identical to @kwaaui

Here is the Designer file.

test file.afdesign

[MEB]

Hi @CPritchard, @kwaaui,
Sorry the double-checking but, are you both absolutely sure the text frame wasn't copied/pasted from other (publisher) document and then reused in Designer?

[CPritchard]

@MEB I got an email notification about a reply, but I don't see it here. Anyway, yes, I am 100% certain this file as well as this text box were never in Publisher. I rarely use Publisher and it is almost never open.

[MEB]

Sorry, my reply is still there but i've hidden it temporarily while I take a deeper look at this. At first sight seems a regular text frame with a background colour set (as created in Publisher). If you and kawaii were able to somehow create this in Designer from scratch then something's wrong. It's also a bit upsetting we can't remove it without reseting the whole object (i believe i've logged this one sometime ago - will check this out as well). I've unhidden the post now (completely forgot about the e-mail notifications). My apologies for the confusion.

[CPritchard]

@MEB No problem. Yes, this issue was completely in Designer. It just started yesterday in 1 file. The only thing that removes it is resetting the object.

[kwaaui]

@MEB Same here, I have Designer and Photo installed on my computer, not Publisher, and the document was created and developed on Designer only.

[friedeggstudios]

 

Same issue here, when i type basic artistic text i get a solid colour background instead of being transparent. This is not the case in 1.8 where everything works correctly.

Cheers

[walt.farrell]

47 minutes ago, friedeggstudios said:

Same issue here, when i type basic artistic text i get a solid colour background instead of being transparent. This is not the case in 1.8 where everything works correctly.

If you're having an issue with the 1.9 beta, then you should post a new topic in the appropriate application's beta forum.