convert to curves greyed out

[weiter]

Hi, I'm preparing my file for printing and I have to convert the text to curves. 

I'm pretty stressed to find out that 'convert to curves ' is greyed out.

What did I do wrong?

Hope somebody can hep me!

Thanks,

 

[Alfred]

Which Affinity app are you using, and on what platform? Do you have the text layer selected in the Layers panel?

[weiter]

Hi Alfred,

Thank you for responding! I'm on 1.8.6 on my mac 

Yes, I do have it selected in the layers panel.

I converted some other text without a problem. The difference between the two is ( and that is probably the problem), that the one that worked out well was not under master pages.

I 'm sure I did something wrong, but I have no idea how to solve it !

Hope you can help!

Tessa

[Alfred]

You might want to check that the text layer isn’t locked (although that should only stop you moving, rotating or resizing the text, not converting it to curves).

[weiter]

It's not locked, but  has red dots instead of a red line on the frame and I just read  something like unlinked attributes , 

so i trying to find out what that means...

 

[Alfred]

Can you attach a screenshot, Tessa? It might help someone (probably not me!) to spot where the problem lies.

[walt.farrell]

Do you really need to convert your text to curves? Couldn't you just select that option while Exporting to PDF?

Click the More... button, scroll down near the bottom to the Embed Fonts option, and set it to "Text as Curves".

As for your frame:

• red dots generally mean that the text has overflowed the frame.
• frames normally have blue lines around them, not red lines, so your description puzzles me.

Can you give us a screenshot including the text frame that's giving you problems and the Layers panel, with the Master layer expanded and the text frame layer showing?

[weiter]

of course, I hope it helps!

[weiter]

Hi Walt, 

Its just a very simple text frame , with nothing mor then - in the screenshot above- Januar in it ( but also 2 other frames ).

It's a good question if I have to convert the text, but the printer asked for it. Maybe I have to double check that. But it still frustrates me  🙂

 

[weiter]

hi Walt, I just found your solution via PDF , Embed Fonts option, and set it to "Text as Curves" 

I guess this is it !??

pffff.. still a lot to learn 🙂 

[weiter]

Thank you both Alfred + Walt.for your respond and help.

Very appreciated !

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

(If more is needed, I'd still like a screenshot that shows the red dots on the text frame and the red lines around it. Unless you were simply referring to the orange dots in the Layers panel. Those just indicate an item from a Master Page that has had some of its attributes decoupled from the Master.)