VectorCat Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 I had 3 lines of text. As soon as I group the 3 lines of text, they are each shrunk. Why should this be. Can affinity designer group items - like text - without shrinking them? Is this meant to be a helpful feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 I regularly use Designer on a Mac. But my experience with the grouping function does not match your own. I have no problems with grouping. You will need to provide more info. How, exactly are you grouping your lines of text? When doing so, could you possibly be dragging any Move handles that might transform your text? What version of Designer are you using? Which macOS are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 It's a known bug in 1.9, already logged Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Honestly there are overall still too many bugs in the actual v1.9.0 versions for both platforms (Mac & Win) and I wonder that they have been released at all in such a state. Also the (pre)testing and detection of bugs looks to has overall got somehow worser than in the past! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, BofG said: This particular bug was found during the beta phase This particular bug is not a critical bug. It only affects some people that resize a text frame with the outer handle and there is an easy workaround for it. So, I see no need to have delayed a carefully planned new release until this bug was fixed. It we did that with all bugs we would never get new releases. Ulysses and Move Along People 2 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 - carl123 1 Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Technical bug when grouping text in 1.9 Affinity Designer Windows. Above you see the text without grouping, below you see the same text grouped. The grouped text suddenly becomes very large. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 1 minute ago, haakoo said: Ah,I don't use the outer handle for textframes Exactly, a lot of people dont so they will never encounter this bug Move Along People 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 The grouping of text an important function in complex layout. I expect that this bug will be fixed as soon as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthias wuertel Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Ich habe das gleiche Problem wie Designer1 im Screenshot dargestellt. Ich konnte dem Forum nicht entnehmen, ob und wie man dieses Problem beheben kann. Hat einer eine klare Antwort? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 2 hours ago, carl123 said: This particular bug is not a critical bug. It only affects some people that resize a text frame with the outer handle and there is an easy workaround for it. Well a bug is finally a bug and in worst cases can propagate, or even afterwards will be never corrected. Even the amount of critical bugs, which crash and make the apps unusable, are to be of course prioritized and so are more essential here. Quote So, I see no need to have delayed a carefully planned new release until this bug was fixed. It we did that with all bugs we would never get new releases. Or the other way around the total number of bugs (unresolved and new bugs) increases with each new release version, thus you would never come close to some nearly bug free releases. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 3 hours ago, BofG said: All the same, there have been a few posts on here by users who have run into this issue and have not had the knowledge about the outer handles or the workaround, so it has had a negative impact on their workflow. I'd imagine there are more people coming across this than who would join and post here about it. To my view rushing to release is the wrong approach versus releasing good and stable code people can rely on. Different views I guess. Generally I personally feel that, if using a function such as Grouping causes another, unwanted result which then requires a workaround to achieve the original goal, that’s a bug in serious need of squashing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 OP here For clarity, this is how I handled the text which shrank upon being grouped: I created 3 lines of text; lines #2 and #3 were same-size dupes. only the words changed Rotated them all 90 degrees selected all 3 lines of text, and grouped them Upon grouping, the text shrank. 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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