neil googe Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 If I group text frames that have been copy pasted from another document, it will increase the text font size by roughly 405%. 9pt text will increase to 37.5 for example. 48pt text goes up to 200pt. The only work around is to create a new layer, group that layer with no content, then add all text frames to that group. Obvoiously not ideal when you need to group multiple text frames per page on a 300-400 page documen. As rather than select, then a single quick key, it becomes two quick keys, select, two more quick keys. I have seen other posts on this problem, none of which seem to have a fix. Is this a style or setting issue, or a bug? barrycosta, nodeus and AHAM 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moortaube Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 I do have that issue, too. Publisher 1.9.0.932 Windows 10 (20H2) AHAM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil googe Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 I think this might have something to do with the imported text. If you import some text frames, then group them, the new document enlarges them by roughly 400%. 9pt to 37.5pt. But if you import the same frames, then create a new text frame and link it for text overflow, as that text passes in to the new frame, it reduces that text by 75%. So I think, somewhere, publisher thinks the imported text is magnified, or enlarged by 400% somehow. I will try to make a video showing the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 12 minutes ago, neil googe said: I think this might have something to do with the imported text. It’s to do with how you resize the text frames. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil googe Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Alfred said: It’s to do with how you resize the text frames. As the person also said in the other post, this isn't about resizing frames. The text is resizing itself when you group frames, or if you overflow text... I havent touched any text frame handles, select text frame, group, all the text reszies itsellf. Ahhh but I can see where that recipe might have something to do with whats going on. It must be to do with the frames on the original document vs the frames on the new document and so how the bug is interacting between the two... Here's hoping for a fix, this is infuriating, when I still have about 200 pages to go, and have a 5 chain quick key system set up just to group some objects Edited February 6, 2021 by neil googe Add extra details Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 10 minutes ago, neil googe said: Ahhh but I can see where that recipe might have something to do with whats going on. It must be to do with the frames on the original document vs the frames on the new document and so how the bug is interacting between the two... Yes, that (for what little it’s worth) is my take on it, too. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHAM Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 12 hours ago, neil googe said: If I group text frames that have been copy pasted from another document, it will increase the text font size by roughly 405%. 9pt text will increase to 37.5 for example. 48pt text goes up to 200pt. The only work around is to create a new layer, group that layer with no content, then add all text frames to that group. Obvoiously not ideal when you need to group multiple text frames per page on a 300-400 page documen. As rather than select, then a single quick key, it becomes two quick keys, select, two more quick keys. I have seen other posts on this problem, none of which seem to have a fix. Is this a style or setting issue, or a bug? This is what you mean right. Yeah problem like this still happened on Windows Beta app. neil googe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Laskey Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Same problem here. neil googe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted February 9, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 9, 2021 This is something we are aware of neil googe 1 Quote Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrycosta Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Having same issue. Didn't do this before Publisher 1.9.0.932. I'm on Windows 10. Here is an example of a before and after. The before does not have layers grouped. If I select them and then group them the text jumps to huge increased size. neil googe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil googe Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 Yep, thats exactly it. I found a work around which worked for the last project, but it increases work time, even if only by a small amount. 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. AHAM 1 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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