Chris26 Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 I re-organsied, deleted unused styles, re-formtted whole document, Re-did two master pages and made sure everything was in order. The two master pages simply have a text box at the top of the page where a header goes, each page a different text. The text style was so simple a child could have done it - ONE FONT; ONE 13 POINT; CENTRED. That is that!!!!! So why oh why do I suddenly get on some pages a situation where I click on my text style AFTER I have inserted a single line text on the relevant page and NOTHING happens except it gets centered, that's it -CENTRED and no other change, EVEN THOUGH in the text style drop down menu box CLEARLY INDICATES THE CORRECT FONT AND SIZE BUT WILL NOT OBEY WHAT IS TYPED INTO THE TEXT STYLE MENU BOX, EXCEPT THAT IT GETS CENTERED. What the bloody hell is it with these text styles?????????? The second image below is the problematic one. BUT HOW THE HELL DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN AFTER EVERYTHING WAS SET UP AFRESSH????? THIS IS THE PROBLEMATIC ONE BELOW - switching to HEAD and Main Body Text BUT I did NOTHING to pre-empt this, nothing at all !!!!!!!!!!!!! eyduh 1 Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door.
loukash Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 5 minutes ago, Chris26 said: HOW THE HELL DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN Impossible to tell without inspecting the document. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
Chris26 Posted February 10, 2023 Author Posted February 10, 2023 58 minutes ago, loukash said: Impossible to tell without inspecting the document. Ok Let's forget the analysis - what is the solution, how can I get rid of that 'Main Body Text' from off of my 'Head' Style? So I now have to Apply 'HEAD" to characters in the style edit drop down menu. But I have to do this for every text. My question is so logical, I HAVE ALREADY told the stupid style menu what to do, why do I have to now access the drop down menu of the style and 'APPLY HEAD TO CHARACTERS'????? to every text that I subsequently insert nto that text box. Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door.
Murfee Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 Hi @Chris26, how are you getting the text in? are you typing or pasting? if typing then it should work as expected, if pasting, does pasting without format work as expected Quote
Chris26 Posted February 10, 2023 Author Posted February 10, 2023 16 minutes ago, Murfee said: Hi @Chris26, how are you getting the text in? are you typing or pasting? if typing then it should work as expected, if pasting, does pasting without format work as expected Hallo Murfee, thanks for responding, I actually type everythng in, no pasting. GOOD NEWS HOWEVER - in my frustration and annoyance I threw a hand granade 💣💥 at the text style called 'Main Body Text' and blew it up into pieces of unuseable data as I watched its binary bits turn into ashes, utterly obliterated its memory and then made the same text style all over again and refused to call it by its original name because I'm so childish I wanted revenge. Now the Head style works as expected, which was the main purpose. All I have to do is now go through all 100 pages and re-set the paragraphs that belong to my 'Main Body of Text'. I'm happy again. Murfee 1 Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door.
Murfee Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 1 minute ago, Chris26 said: I'm happy again. That's a relief, I am glad you got it sorted 😀 Quote
Old Bruce Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 I see this a lot of times. Two Paragraph Styles applied to one piece of Text. There must be something that is applying a second Paragraph Style to some of the text, perhaps a keyboard shortcut is being used for one (or both) of the Paragraph Styles. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
MikeTO Posted February 11, 2023 Posted February 11, 2023 Hi, I saw this issue (two paragraph styles appearing to be applied to the same text) regularly in v1 but I believe it is fixed in v2. It has never happened for me in v2. I realize that's no consolation since you're still using v1. Cheers Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
thomaso Posted February 11, 2023 Posted February 11, 2023 17 hours ago, Chris26 said: how can I get rid of that 'Main Body Text' from off of my 'Head' Style? So I now have to Apply 'HEAD" to characters in the style edit drop down menu. Because Affinity offers (for what use?) to assign a paragraph style to characters, a text can have two paragraph styles assigned according to the Text Styles Panel. To get rid of the unwanted "Main" (apparently applied to characters) and instead of additionally assigning "Head" to characters, you can try to use the right-click option (burger menu) of "Head" and choose "… and Clear Character Styles", which appears to clear any local or character formatting, regardless whether it was assigned 'manually' or via a saved Character or Paragraph Style. 1 hour ago, MikeTO said: I saw this issue (two paragraph styles appearing to be applied to the same text) regularly in v1 but I believe it is fixed in v2. It has never happened for me in v2. Possibly you can create such a conflict in V2, too: Apply a saved Paragraph Style > with the text or frame still selected, right-click the name of another Paragraph Style > choose "Apply … to Characters". Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
MikeTO Posted February 11, 2023 Posted February 11, 2023 28 minutes ago, thomaso said: Possibly you can create such a conflict in V2, too: Apply a saved Paragraph Style > with the text or frame still selected, right-click the name of another Paragraph Style > choose "Apply … to Characters". Ugh, that's not a good outcome. If this feature is going to exist it should just apply the character attributes of that paragraph style to the selected characters, overriding the existing paragraph style. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
thomaso Posted February 11, 2023 Posted February 11, 2023 (edited) 39 minutes ago, MikeTO said: should just apply the character attributes of that paragraph style to the selected characters, overriding the existing paragraph style. Isn't it like this? To me in V1 it appears applying a second Paragraph Style to Characters does maintain the leading & space before/after of the first style while font, size, colour etc get applied from the second style. EDIT: just noticed, the actually used leading depends on the font sizes of the two applied paragraph styles. Also an indent of the first style gets maintained for the second style. This leads to more confusion aside the two highlighted paragraph style names in the panel – though there are indicators in the context bar and the panels top field. Edited February 11, 2023 by thomaso Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
firstdefence Posted February 11, 2023 Posted February 11, 2023 20 hours ago, Chris26 said: GOOD NEWS HOWEVER - in my frustration and annoyance I threw a hand granade 💣💥 at the text style called 'Main Body Text' and blew it up into pieces of unuseable data as I watched its binary bits turn into ashes, utterly obliterated its memory and then made the same text style all over again and refused to call it by its original name because I'm so childish I wanted revenge. Thanks for the laugh Chris26 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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
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