thedude Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Hi, I opened a file I had worked on in the past and when I create a new text object, it has an orange backgroound and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get rid of the background. I created a brand new file and then created a new text object in that file and it was fine, just black text. I then copy/pasted that into the other document and it was fine but when I created another new text object (using the Artistic text tool) it still had an orange background. Here's a screenshot of my workspace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Check the Character panel in the Studio (View > Studio > Character if necessary) which has a setting for the character background color: If it's happening on new documents you may have set a color as the default. To fix that, you could do one of these: Select some artistic text with the wrong background color, and change it in the Character panel. Then use the menu Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection followed by Edit > Defaults > Save. or Edit > Defaults > Factory Reset (which is more drastic and unpredictable in its effects) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedude Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) Hi Walt, Thank you for your response, but that isn't the problem. Sorry if I did not explain myself well enough, I included the screnshot to hopefully show the issue. The text object in the bottom left is selected and in the Character panel, it says there is no background. If I change this to have a light blue background (see image below) then the background is bigger then the text. If I then remove the background, it then goes back to having the orange colour behind the text, but the 2 backgrounds are diferent sizes. The weird orange background i cant change only covers to the edges of the text but the background from the Character panel is bigger then the text (has padding). Edited January 10, 2021 by thedude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 You need to have the Text Caret in the text frame. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | 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...
thedude Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 Thanks Bruce, but unfortunately I don't understand what you mean by that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 It looks like your app memorised a APub text frame with background colour... If you've got APub, open the file in it to correct the background. You can also reset to the default parameters for this frame, clicking on: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 22 minutes ago, thedude said: Thanks Bruce, but unfortunately I don't understand what you mean by that. You have selected the the text layer, you need to have the actual text in that frame (Art Text I am guessing) by using the Text tool, not the Move tool ( the arrow ) and selecting the text. Screen Recording 2021-01-10 at 8.12.20 AM.mov Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | 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...
thedude Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 Thank you Wosven, I do also have publisher but opening the file in that did not seem to help, it also was saying that the text object did not have a background (even though there is orange being the text). However using the reset button as you suggested has at least removed everything so I can start fresh with the object, which will have to do. Thank you all for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 It could have been frame background or text decoration or character background, etc., but you can't access them in AD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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