Affinity Publisher: Bug on Text wrap and decoration

[Pyanepsion]

Hello everyone.

The decoration is an element of the text style. Wrapping allows the text to be pushed back, but here it does not affect the decoration.

Here a text frame containing the text of the pages and a decoration on one of its borders. Another text frame is placed on top of it with a text wrap.

See the decoration. It's not driven out by the text wrap. A workaround can be making the wrapped frame opaque, but this is not, of course, a plausible solution all the time… and is very time-consuming to do.

text-wrap-decoration.afpub

 

 

 

[Komatös]

I understand what you mean, but I don't think it's a bug. You want to remove the decoration in the area of the overlay text box. However, the page decoration is a paragraph element.

[Pyanepsion]

[Komatös]

I understand, but it is not a bug. You should make it as a feauture request.

[Andreas CH]

Die Lösung ist ganz einfach.

Deckkraft auf 100%

Tönung auf 50%

 

text-wrap-decoration.afpub

[MikeW]

I would create a new style for the text in the frame sans left decoration and have that text in the text flow.

[Pyanepsion]

1 hour ago, Andreas CH said:

Deckkraft auf 100% (Opacity at 100%)

Ich habe den Workaround gleich nach der Meldung dieses Fehlers angegeben. (I gave the workaround just after this bug was reported.)

1 hour ago, anto said:

Add Decoration 2 in Text style and fill it as you like.

 

1 hour ago, MikeW said:

I would create a new style for the text in the frame sans left decoration and have that text in the text flow.

The file and the illustration are just an example to show that the decoration is not pushed out although it is part of the style of the text. You have the same problem, of course, with any object that has a text wrapping. I initially encountered the problem with the creation of footnotes (a text frame with text wrapping) placed in front of the text on the page.

[MikeW]

15 minutes ago, Pyanepsion said:

The file and the illustration are just an example to show that the decoration is not pushed out although it is part of the style of the text. You have the same problem, of course, with any object that has a text wrapping. I initially encountered the problem with the creation of footnotes (a text frame with text wrapping) placed in front of the text on the page.

I would consider the actual sample publication you provided a poorly constructed file.

If you do not desire text decoration to show through a separate text box with X percent opacity less than 100%, then add a blank paragraph and, if desired, pin the frame to that blank paragraph.

But really, if you are going to change concepts as to examples, provide a file with such an example as what you have provided should just be a second p.style.

[Pyanepsion]

@MikeW Here is a more telling example with a text about Affinity. We have created a master page with a generic text frame for all the pages of the book. We have a text with footnotes. When you put a note at the very bottom of the text frame (page 5), the text is correctly wrapped. When you move the footnote up a bit (page 1), the bug appears. This bug exists on all objects to which text wrapping is applied.

Note here that a footnote is normally pasted at the bottom of the page's text box, but not always. I discovered this bug when I was doing the DTP of a Dutch historical book with a lot of footnotes. There was a page with a quote and a footnote at the bottom of the text frame of the page.

text-wrap-decoration.afpub

 

[MikeW]

Thanks. I'm on a mobile right now so cannot play with the file right now. 

If I think about what happens in an application that has a footnote function, two things happen. Simultaneously, the body area lessens and the footnote area increases. 

Without a footnote function, those two things have to be handled manually. 

In the screen shot, the quote would need to span to the next page to make room for the footnote. 

[Pyanepsion]

The decoration is an element of the text style. Wrapping allows the text to be pushed back, but here it does not affect the decoration. The decoration should also be postponed.