Niklas Vackerdag Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 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 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niklas Vackerdag Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 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. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 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🙁 NotMyFault and RVidal 2 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niklas Vackerdag Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 @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! DM1 and NotMyFault 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVidal Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 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 😀 DM1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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