Text box overflow font size changes

[VicG]

Hello,

When I create a text overflow box on the pasteboard the text that flows into it reduces in size, as shown in the screen grabs. If I increase the size of the text in the overflow box it enlarges when brought back into the page.

I have noticed that sometimes multiple lines of the overflow text will 'hang out' of the bottom of the text box, but not always so I can't show it here.

 

 

[stokerg]

Hi @VicG and Welcome to the Forums,

Could you attach an afpub file showing this issue?  Also which operating system are you running Affinity on?  I was unable to replicate this on MacOS or Windows.

[Alfred]

22 hours ago, VicG said:

When I create a text overflow box on the pasteboard the text that flows into it reduces in size

Did you resize the text frame on the page using the extra handle beyond the bottom right-hand corner? Doing this is known to affect the behaviour of the text in linked frames.

22 hours ago, VicG said:

I have noticed that sometimes multiple lines of the overflow text will 'hang out' of the bottom of the text box

Affinity Publisher Help: Flowing text through frames

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If there's too much story text to fit in a frame sequence, Affinity Publisher stores it in an invisible overflow area. To indicate overflow, a Text Flow button (triangle icon) changes to red; an adjacent eye icon also appears which lets you show or hide the overflowing text.

 

[thomaso]

3 minutes ago, Alfred said:

extra handle beyond the bottom right-hand corner

@stokerg, any chance to get the help search more verbose, knowing more search terms? – There seem to be various fundamental features hard to find. Two more examples: "lock" as in "lock colourspace" or "lock children" (none of the 3 shows a result).

 

[stokerg]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

Did you resize the text frame on the page using the extra handle beyond the bottom right-hand corner? Doing this is known to affect the behaviour of the text in linked frames.

That was one thing i didn't do!  I should of remembered this as i've dealt with this bug before!  Thanks for the reminder  

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

any chance to get the help search more verbose, knowing more search terms? – There seem to be various fundamental features hard to find. Two more examples: "lock" as in "lock colourspace" or "lock children" (none of the 3 shows a result).

 

I can certainly log it as an improvement with the Documentation Team  

[caroleperrott]

On 1/25/2022 at 10:27 AM, stokerg said:

Hi @VicG and Welcome to the Forums,

Could you attach an afpub file showing this issue?  Also which operating system are you running Affinity on?  I was unable to replicate this on MacOS or Windows.

Hi All,

This problem is always (> 3 months now) happening to me. Have updated to latest version - no change. Using version 1.10.4.1198 on Windows10. It doesn't matter where the imported text comes from (e.g. Word, Libre Office, Wordpad or Notepad). I would attach afpub file if it would let me!

[Robert J A]

Having the same problem in 2023... Keeps changing text size onto new linked text box!

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Robert J A said:

Having the same problem in 2023... Keeps changing text size onto new linked text box!

Unless you're starting with an IDML file, or copying data between documents with different DPI values, it's probably happening because you resized one of the Text Frames improperly, by using the scaling handle (detached one on the lower right) rather than one of the other handles.

[Robert J A]

On 3/3/2023 at 5:58 PM, walt.farrell said:

Unless you're starting with an IDML file, or copying data between documents with different DPI values, it's probably happening because you resized one of the Text Frames improperly, by using the scaling handle (detached one on the lower right) rather than one of the other handles.

Looking back at the file, at the time of posting it was definitely misbehaving, however checking again – looks like I must have resized the text box incorrectly. Going to keep an eye out to see if it happens again. I'm certain I wasn't resizing the new text box though and it was doing it.