PDF export of text frame has unexpected white borders/edges/areas

[avolo]

Text frame tool buggy behaviour
Affinity Designer v1.8.6, macos Catalina 10.15.7.

Reproduce: Set cell stroke > 0 on
a tab " " or a space " ".

After doing that you can visualize the bug by moving the cursor around the text frame. The cursor will change into an editing caret even if you're far outside the text frame.

Also if you click with the selection tool somewhere above and well outside the text frame; it will still be selected.

Select the text frame and export "Selection without background".

Expected result: a pdf showing only the text in the selected text frame.

Actual result: the pdf displays white areas to the top and left of the text frame extending all the way to the top and left edge of the page as it was appearing in Designer.

See below for a better explanation:

[Sean P]

Hi Avolo,

Thanks for letting us know. We were aware of this issue and have made fixes/improvements to this  in the latest customer beta. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below. I've tried it myself and can no longer reproduce using your steps (where I could in 1.8.6)

The latest beta builds are downloadable from links at the top of each of these beta forum posts.

• Affinity Photo 1.9.0 beta for Windows
• Affinity Photo 1.9.0 beta for Mac
• Affinity Photo 1.9.0 beta for iPad
   
• Affinity Designer 1.9.0 beta for Windows
• Affinity Designer 1.9.0 beta for Mac
• Affinity Designer 1.9.0 beta for iPad
   
• Affinity Publisher 1.9.0 beta for Windows
• Affinity Publisher 1.9.0 beta for Mac

These betas install parallel, next to the release version (they do not overwrite your release) and so the fixes can be tried in the beta without affecting your normal workflow in the release version.

Once these programs have been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.9.0 update/patch to all customers.

[avolo]

Hi Sean! Many thanks, it seems to work fine in the beta.

Also thank you for a superb product. I'm migrating/recreating all our Illustrator-designs (for a local paper) to Affinity Designer and I really like the GUI and work flow which you all obviously put a lot of thought to.