comancheTodd Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 In the process of cutting and pasting some Art-text objects/layers, a border has been added to the container/box that I didn't put it there and don't want. Adjusting Stroke or Color changes the text INSIDE the box, but NOT the box around the object/layer. For example, reducing the "Stroke" from 0.2 pt to 0.0 pt takes off the edge of the letters in the text but doesn't affect the border around the box that is the object/layer. Changing the "Stroke"'s color or transparency/opacity changes the color of of the edge of the font, but the box's border. Help!!! (Can't send the file, but attached is a screen shot.) BONUS QUESTION: Sometimes when working with objects, the box has little 'x's instead of handles. What's going on??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 It would help to have one of those objects selected, as more information would be available via the Context Toolbar. But perhaps still not enough. So, instead, with one of the objects selected, and the cursor in the text, please look at the Paragraph panel, and see what decorations are applied. It looks like you may have them all applied, as below, which could be done manually or by applying the Paragraph Text Style named Box: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comancheTodd Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 OK, will do. Here it is as selected with the Move Tool. I don't see tool panel you've circled. What am I missing? Something I removed from my tools, perhaps, because I didn't think I'd need them? Todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comancheTodd Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 I right-clicked in the toolbar to see if there were any that looked like what you circled, but haven't found it yet... Todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comancheTodd Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 I found it! I did not realize there is a "Text Frame" panel (weird IMHO, but OK...) It is curious that when cutting-and-pasting, when the original did not have a border that the program added a border around it. A bug?? Thanks! Todd (Sorry, I can't seem to delete the uploaded image I added before finding the solution) Sernd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 23 minutes ago, comancheTodd said: It is curious that when cutting-and-pasting, when the original did not have a border that the program added a border around it. A bug?? Hard to say if it's a bug without seeing more info, or the actual .afpub document, and knowing what you copied/pasted and where you copied it from. Congratulations on figuring it out, though................. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 You could create a duplicate of the document and in the duplicate delete all pages except the troublesome page and upload it here. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.4.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comancheTodd Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 OK, here you go. The border was added when I copied the SUBTITLE ("Book One of the...") on the title page from another book, and adapted it and placed it here. I also copied and pasted the TITLE ("The Tale of Telsharu") on the title page from another place in the book. After pasting, both had a 0.3 pt border around the boxes, black or very dark gray. FYI, after I figured out how to remove the border and cleaned them both up, I also copied the main TITLE and resized it for the two half-title pages (i and xiii, both unnumbered) and had no problem. Todd SvnE3-1.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 9 hours ago, comancheTodd said: The border was added when I copied the SUBTITLE ("Book One of the...") on the title page from another book It might be interesting to look at that page, too, if you can also provide it. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sernd Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 On 11/8/2021 at 9:13 PM, comancheTodd said: I found it! I did not realize there is a "Text Frame" panel (weird IMHO, but OK...) It is curious that when cutting-and-pasting, when the original did not have a border that the program added a border around it. A bug?? Thanks! Todd (Sorry, I can't seem to delete the uploaded image I added before finding the solution) Had this same problem, anyone using affinity publisher 2, go to window and search down for text frame. ACDesignStudio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFan2 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Faced the same problem in Publisher. First, I added a border to a table. For some strange reason, that same border (color and thickness) was also applied to my Artistic text frame. Thanks to commanche Todd for leading me to the text frame. But the question still remains as to why setting applied to Table Borders is automatically applied to Text Frames. ACDesignStudio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drik Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Same here in Affinity Publisher 2. I can't seem to find any border settings applied anywhere to Border Stroke or Text Frame as suggested above but a line border is there. Anyone? 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 2 hours ago, drik said: but a line border is there. If you're talking about the blue frame around the top text, that's probably View > Show Text Flow. drik and ACDesignStudio 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drik Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Indeed. Thank you Walt 🙂 Note: For anyone else reading, the lines will not be there in the exported file. walt.farrell and ACDesignStudio 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drik Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Problem came back again, but this time it is a thick border around a new default text and Show text flow is not the problem. My solution is to just go Edit->Defaults->Factory Reset. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACDesignStudio Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Paragraph - Decoration did not work for me but Text Frame did. My problem developed when I opened an APub 1 doc in APub 2 and added a new art text. The original art text does not have text borders but the new art text does. Thanks for the solution. Quote Designing, Arting, Writing, Crafting, Lover of the Creative Life Linktr.ee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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