Text frame justification ignores spaces on the right if it has background colour

[MickRose]

I don't know if this is a bug or just strange design. Make a text frame, add some text with space characters on the left and right. Give the text a background fill. Change the justification. The spaces at the end of the text are ignored when working out how the text is positioned. Apologies if this has already been posted.

[walt.farrell]

Two questions, @MickRose:

1. Are you talking about center, left, and right alignment? Or about justification, which has left and right settings that apply only to the last line of the paragraph? I suspect you're referring to alignment.
2. Have you tried it without the background color? I would expect it to work the same way.

It is known that right-alignment ignore spaces at the end of the text. And I think that's by design, but I'm not certain Serif have said that.

Another user recently suggested using a Unicode "word joiner" character at the end if you need to avoid that, as it is not considered to be white space by the Affinity applications:

 

[MickRose]

I've just been playing around with this and what seems to work is to use any characters either side of the wanted text and just make these blocks of text transparent.

[Old Bruce]

White space other than new line or return is never considered when justifying text. Think about it for a while, do you really want ragged edges on the right side when you have selected justified text as an option. That is what you would get if the spaces were treated as character glyphs, it would be subtle but it would be.