dmstudio Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Yeah, I'm making this a new post because searching through the manymany threads that already exist on it has been a huge waste of time. Problem: Text frames in Affinity Designer inexplicably have a white background. No matter what the fill color or outline color of the text is, pasting, pasting without formatting, retyping text doesn't help. Every new text frame ALWAYS has a white background. There's no way to change it in the character studio and Designer doesn't have a text frame studio Solution: open a new blank document, go back to the original, delete all of your text layers, copy the remaining layers and art boards, go to the new document. paste them into the new document. Re-create all of your text boxes. Why it happens: for me it was an issue caused by opening a template my printer needs me to use. Apparently the document was setup to have white backgrounds in text boxes and since Designer shows the background frame color but has no way to get rid of it, all of my text boxes had white backgrounds. Other solution if you only have a couple text boxes: Create a new shape layer, set the background to transparent, convert it to a text frame then paste the text repeat for every single text box I've found thread after thread about this issue here, on Reddit and elsewhere going back to 2019. Hey, Serif. It's been 3 years! just quit showing text frame background color at all if you aren't going to give us any option to control it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonSquirrel Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 11 minutes ago, dmstudio said: Problem: Text frames in Affinity Designer inexplicably have a white background. Maybe for you they do. 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 33 minutes ago, dmstudio said: Why it happens: for me it was an issue caused by opening a template my printer needs me to use You should probably talk to your printer about that 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 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbasdf Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Does Edit -> Defaults -> Revert (or Edit -> Defaults -> Factory Reset) fix it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbasdf Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 It turns out the Text Frame Studio panel is available in AD, but just really hard to open: it's not listed in View -> Studio and not available from the Context Toolbar for Frame Text or Artistic Text. But it is available from the Context Toolbar if you have Text on a Curve. So, create a curve, then select the Artistic Text tool, and click on the curve to create the Artistic Text. Now the Context Toolbar should include an option to open the Text Frame panel: The panel will open and can be docked and used any text frames, artistic text, text on a curve, etc. Oufti 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 7 minutes ago, pbasdf said: It turns out the Text Frame Studio panel is available in AD, but just really hard to open: it's not My memory of this is that this is a bug and will most likely be fixed. Meaning we are not supposed to be able to do this and it may not be available in future versions. As I stated this is my memory which is not perfect. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.1 Affinity Designer 2.2.1 | Affinity Photo 2.2.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.2.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbasdf Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: My memory of this is that this is a bug and will most likely be fixed. Meaning we are not supposed to be able to do this and it may not be available in future versions. As I stated this is my memory which is not perfect. Noted. Thanks for the warning. R C-R has just made the same point in another post, so your memory serves you well: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/161401-text-path-now-showing-black-stroked-path-under-text/&do=findComment&comment=917658 Odd that two people should post about issues with "text frames" doing things they shouldn't (strokes in one case, fills in the other) in AD within a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 2 hours ago, pbasdf said: Odd that two people should post about issues with "text frames" doing things they shouldn't (strokes in one case, fills in the other) in AD within a few hours. One of them thinks they could have created the text frame in APub & later opened it in AD, or copied it & pasted it into an AD document. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jubarbie Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 EDIT: Ok just found out how to change that thanks to @pbasdf answer here. This is really odd that I have to open a contaxtual menu that is not present on my context but that has an effect on it. If the text frame panel has an impact on the Artistic Text tool then it should be possible to open it from that tool. I have the same issue on a document. Every text I create using the Art text tool or the Zone text tool has a pink background. I don't get how to change it, I can't see any options Enregistrement de l’écran 2022-07-22 à 12.29.06.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 I can create that behaviour if an original document was created in Publisher and then "Edit in Designer..." is used. Do you have Af Publisher? Quote Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixeldroid Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 I've encountered this issue in AD 2.0.4 When I create a new text layer of any kind it has a white background. I followed @pbasdf advice above to access the Text Frame Panel by creating text on a curve. The Text Frame button shows up, but it doesn't open the panel. I don't see a fix outside of copying a block from a different document. This is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 51 minutes ago, pixeldroid said: I followed @pbasdf advice above to access the Text Frame Panel by creating text on a curve. The Text Frame button shows up, but it doesn't open the panel. I don't see a fix outside of copying a block from a different document. This is bad. Having the panel available in Designer was a bug. The button to invoke it shouldn't be there, either. Try selecting the text frame or text object, then Edit > Defaults > Revert. If that doesn't work, try Edit > Defaults > Factory Reset. nitro912gr, pixeldroid, Marlon and 1 other 1 3 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 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixeldroid Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 @walt.farrell Revert worked. Thanks a ton for the quick reply! The panel remains a bug on top of a property that shouldn't exist, though I think it would be great to be able to fill/stroke a Text Frame (pia to do it manually). nitro912gr and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitro912gr Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 had this popping to me today while working on an older file. revert did the trick, but shouldn't there be some short of fool prof setting in place to avoid that? I spent half an hour trying to fix this. debraspicher 1 Quote Current Workstation:CPU: AMD Ryzen 1600AF - MOBO: Asus B450 - RAM: 16GB DDR4 2667Mhz - GPU: AMD Radeon 7790 1GBSSD: Samsung Evo 850 256GB - HDD: Toshiba P300 1TB, WD Blue 2.5" 5400rpm 1TB - PSU: XFX TS450 - OS: Win11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debraspicher Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 (edited) This happened to me, but I suspected a bug almost immediately. Mainly because I was bouncing back and forth working on this template from Designer<->Publisher sometime yesterday and working with text frames there. The background for my Art Text in Designer was coming up black sharing the same setting from Publisher. This was in the new document created from the template. I couldn't remember us being able to add background to text frames in Designer... much less remove it, which was the other clue. And for clarity, the way I moved back and forth was through File > Edit in Publisher... and vice-versa. So maybe that's a potential trigger. Maybe not. Thank you for @walt.farrell pointing out the revert option. This will come in handy later I am sure. Edited March 4 by debraspicher more info, reworded post walt.farrell 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 10 Home (Build 19045) AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8Ghz (-30 all core +200mhz PBO); Mobo: Asus X470 Prime Pro 32GB DDR4 (3600Mhz) EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 3080 X3C Ultra 12GB Monitor 1 4K @ 125% due to a bug Monitor 2 4K @ 150% Monitor 3 (as needed) 1080p @ 100% WACOM Intuos4 Large; X-rite i1Display Pro; NIKON D5600 DSLR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitro912gr Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 man this is getting tiresome with older files lately... this revert works but losing all the styles in the progress is adding extra work here and there Quote Current Workstation:CPU: AMD Ryzen 1600AF - MOBO: Asus B450 - RAM: 16GB DDR4 2667Mhz - GPU: AMD Radeon 7790 1GBSSD: Samsung Evo 850 256GB - HDD: Toshiba P300 1TB, WD Blue 2.5" 5400rpm 1TB - PSU: XFX TS450 - OS: Win11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linsoda Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 I had the same situation a few minutes ago when I opened an af file in Publisher, the frame fill color was set to 255,255,255 by default for Artistic Text and Frame Text. To disable it, please find an option called "Frame Fill" in the publisher Persona and change the color to "None". It's probably not a bug, but because I accidentally pressed one of the ColorPicker shortcuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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