How to get rid of background in frame text on Affinity Designer for iPad?

[Niklas Vackerdag]

Hello!

When I write text in text frames, the background of the text goes white instead of transparent. I must have done something, but cant find out what. I have searched in the app, these forums, Google and YouTube without finding a solution.

Please, help me.  

[NotMyFault]

You may try reset text style in Settings.

When i remember it right, background text colors can be displayed, but Designer lacks the UI to change the settings. If you copy / paste text with background color from other apps (Safari), you are stuck. This issue has been reported several times before, I can’t find the post containing the solution.

older post (on Desktop, but issue affects iPad, too)

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/102879-unremovable-background-color-on-all-text/&tab=comments#comment-552574

 

[Niklas Vackerdag]

Thank you, @NotMyFault, that helped a bit!

Now, I can open a new document and write text in text frames without getting the background color. In my already existing documents, the issue seems to remain. I have restarted Aiffinity Designer hoping that would fix it (it didn’t). I cannot create new text frames without getting the background color or remove background on existing text frames. Does that mean my documents are ruined and have to be recreated from scratch, or is there a way to save them?

Thanks for any help on this!

[NotMyFault]

6 minutes ago, Niklas Vackerdag said:

Thank you, @NotMyFault, that helped a bit!

Now, I can open a new document and write text in text frames without getting the background color. In my already existing documents, the issue seems to remain. I have restarted Aiffinity Designer hoping that would fix it (it didn’t). I cannot create new text frames without getting the background color or remove background on existing text frames. Does that mean my documents are ruined and have to be recreated from scratch, or is there a way to save them?

Thanks for any help on this!

Your text can be rescued.

You should be able to define a text style (not having the background color), and apply this style to your text, to remove unwanted background color.

If you can share a document having this problem (a copy of one text frame is enough), i can try to envision the workflow.

 

If you have access to Affinity Publisher (on MacOS or Windows), you can use Publisher to remove the fill text & create the presets for re-use, as it provides the UI elements missing in Designer / Photo. This would be the fastest way.

[DM1]

 

1 hour ago, Niklas Vackerdag said:

I cannot create new text frames without getting the background color or remove background on existing text frames.

This was from an earlier version but may still resolve your issue. It’s a shame Affinity have not added a simple ui fix to allow selection of background colour 3 years later and still an issue🙁

 

 

[Niklas Vackerdag]

@NotMyFault, thank you again! I solved it for now by remaking the text frames, but I appreciate your offer.  

@DM1, that seemed to get rid of the background. Thank you!  

[RVidal]

Thanks everyone this helped so much! @DM1 A work around i found is to copy a paragraph style and paste it over the other text paragraph 😀