erchdk Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 I have experienced in both Designer and Publisher 1.9 that grouping objects sometimes changes the font size of the text. It does seem It does not seem to connected to the font, but maybe rather to some changes I have done to the font (scaling, size, color etc). I do not remember all the changes but here is a look at what happens. The left is ungrouped objects. The right is objects grouped - that is the only difference between the two sides. nodeus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted February 5, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2021 Hi erchdk, This is something that is logged with development - I'll get your comments passed over. erchdk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodeus Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 This bug makes Publisher 1.9 useless for work... Quote designer butcher — nodeus.ru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 I think this is to do with the bottom right text frame scaling tool having been used on the text frame and has been mentioned before. For what it's worth it is also faulty if a single text frame is grouped with itself. Quote Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erchdk Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, nodeus said: This bug makes Publisher 1.9 useless for work... That is a bit harsh... It's not useless. I tried to replicate the bug from scratch but unable. I made the original design in Affinity Designer, have made countless changes in the process before settling on this, and eventually this happens; that grouping this changes the font size. However: If I just make the same layout directly without all the trial and error, grouping causes no issues. But random errors are annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZlatyWP Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 I beg you to fix this bug, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodeus Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 This bug always occurs when editing files created with versions before 1.9 Even if you copy text objects from the old document into the newly created document, the bug appears. Quote designer butcher — nodeus.ru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erchdk Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 Give them some credit I am sure the development team is doing whatever they can to amend bugs and some bugs are more important than others. I think the amount of resources they have compared to the amount of feedback they get is not in favor of them. Bugs, requests for new features, running a business, making tutorials, answering our questions etc. The amount of work required for developing this suite of software is massive and from my point of view I am grateful for their even if it's not 95% fool proof, but I like it far better than the competition. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erchdk Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 @BofG I did not mean to criticize - and we agree on the need to take care of their user base, that has jumped ship from other programs t use this for the professional work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evening Films Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Not to pile on here, but... the impact of any given bug can be wide ranging, depending on your situation - In our case, we are updating/revising flyers and promo decks weekly: constantly rearranging and recombining (yes - regrouping!) text blocks in designs built from previous versions. This font-size-glitch-on-grouping when editing a previously created doc causes a major headache and hit on our workflow until it gets fixed. I would jump back to 1.8 in a flash if I could... 😖 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evening Films Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Many thanks to @loukash for the 1.9 Groups bug workaround posted over in the MacOS Designer Bugs forum - a lot of keystrokes and dragging, but functional. Hope this is cleared quickly in 1.9.1! 🤞 <<Meanwhile, in your case the workaround would be: create a temporary object like a simple rectangle group this rectangle with "itself", that creates a "(Group)" layer in the Layers panel move your text frame layers in the Layers panel inside this "(Group)" layer delete the temporary rectangle>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted February 11, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2021 We have made fixes/improvements to this area (Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped) of the program in the latest customer beta. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below. The latest beta builds are downloadable from links at the top of each of these beta forum posts. Affinity Photo 1.9.1 beta for Windows Affinity Photo 1.9.1 beta for Mac (this particular fix will actually be in the next beta #220 ) Affinity Designer 1.9.1 beta for Windows Affinity Designer 1.9.1 beta for Mac Affinity Publisher 1.9.1 beta for Windows Affinity Publisher 1.9.1 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 1.9.1 update/patch to all customers. Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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