Text Frame size of 0

[Hezer]

Here's a strange bug I happened to come across.

If you adjust the text frame size (width or height) to be 0, it's not possible to resize it back.
Of course you can't set it to 0 in transform panel or by dragging on the box handles.

Except, if you happen to have a snapping point and you drag both of the handles to that same snapping position, then the size is locked to 0, the handles disappear and transform panel doesn't change the size anymore.

Only way I've found to enable resizing again is to go back in history. And sometimes even this glitches the text frame and the bounding box is not aligned with the handles. You have to redo history step (go back to 0 size), and then go back more than 1 step in history for it to align correctly. (Edit: the bounding box error is just visual and will fix itself if you deselect and reselect object.)

Tested on:
Affinity Publisher (ver. 1.10.5.1342)
Windows 10 (build 19044.1826)

[joe_l]

43 minutes ago, Hezer said:

Here's a strange bug I happened to come across.

An ancient bug, but never fixed in a complete way. Right now it is impossible to set the dimensions to 0 via the Transform panel, but you can still do this manually by dragging the handles.

[MickRose]

Hi @Hezer - that's interesting. I find that the "Text Frame Columns/Width" can be used to change the text frame width from zero to a positive number. But if I create an ordinary rectangle and snap 2 sides to a vertical guide, then indeed you can't make the rectangle a proper rectangle again. Except you can convert it into a text frame and give it a column width, then convert it into a shape again.

[NathanC]

Hi @Hezer,

This issue isn't limited to just text frames, the same can be outcome can be replicated with other objects, it is currently logged with the developers. 🙂

[joe_l]

10 minutes ago, MickRose said:

I find that the "Text Frame Columns/Width" can be used to change the text frame width from zero to a positive number.

Never thought of this way, so thanks. Found something else. Align the text frame left to a guide and then move it manually to 0. If you move the handle a tiny bit more to the left, the Text Frame panel shows you a value of -0. Now type in any value and the value always stays negative in the Text Frame panel, but not in the Transform panel.

[Hezer]

1 hour ago, MickRose said:

Hi @Hezer - that's interesting. I find that the "Text Frame Columns/Width" can be used to change the text frame width from zero to a positive number. But if I create an ordinary rectangle and snap 2 sides to a vertical guide, then indeed you can't make the rectangle a proper rectangle again. Except you can convert it into a text frame and give it a column width, then convert it into a shape again.

Nice, but this doesn't work with height, or am I missing something?

  

1 hour ago, NathanC said:

Hi @Hezer,

This issue isn't limited to just text frames, the same can be outcome can be replicated with other objects, it is currently logged with the developers. 🙂

Thanks for the info. I did consider later that it might happen with some other objects as well, but I didn't test that.
At least I didn't find any mention of it here related to text frames.

[MickRose]

28 minutes ago, Hezer said:

Nice, but this doesn't work with height, or am I missing something?

No, it doesn't work with zero height.