Affinity Publisher - Text rearranges itself when adding to it

[jimos87]

Whenever i edit the generic version of this with different text, E.G deleting a section and re-typing it the whole layout changes and i can't get it to look right, how can i fix this.

Generic_I.afpub

[GarryP]

You may need to tell us what you are removing, what the document looked like before you removed it, what you are replacing it with, how it looks after replacement, and what’s wrong with how it was replaced. Otherwise we don’t know what’s happening or what you think is wrong.

[jimos87]

The document looked like it does in the Generic version i attached.

It happens if i change any text in the paragraph , the spacing goes funny and iters big gaps either side

[GarryP]

Unfortunately I don’t have the fonts that are used in the document installed in my machine so I can’t see how the document is supposed to look before editing, and if I can’t see what it looks like before editing I don’t have all the information to hand. (Different fonts work differently and can cause some weird issues.) Maybe someone else can help.

Note: I did see that the main text was in an Artistic Text layer, which I wouldn’t personally use for that much text. Maybe using a Frame Text layer instead might help so that the text flows properly within the frame, rather than extending the frame when more text is added.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, jimos87 said:

It happens if i change any text in the paragraph , the spacing goes funny and iters big gaps either side

Can you give us a screenshot and the modified .afpub when that happens?

 

3 hours ago, GarryP said:

Note: I did see that the main text was in an Artistic Text layer, which I wouldn’t personally use for that much text. Maybe using a Frame Text layer instead might help so that the text flows properly within the frame, rather than extending the frame when more text is added.

That's a good point, Garry. It would also eliminate the need to have a paragraph break at the end of each line, which may be part of the issue.

[Alfred]

6 hours ago, GarryP said:

I don’t have the fonts that are used in the document

Ledgewood is available as a free download for non-commercial use.

https://www.dafont.com/ledgewood.font

Anita Script is not legally available for free, but I don’t really think it’s either necessary or desirable to have ‘Dear {name}’ in a different font from that used for the rest of the text.

[GarryP]

15 hours ago, Alfred said:

I don’t really think it’s either necessary or desirable to have ‘Dear {name}’ in a different font from that used for the rest of the text.

I agree.
If the aim is to have the result looking like a hand-written letter from a single person then it would be fairly unusual for it to be written in more than one style (both graphically and grammatically).
You should probably use the same font, the same font variant and even the same (or very similar) size throughout, unless you want it to look like it was written by more than one person, each with – possibly – different pens.