Diego Lopez Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 I was working on a document and all of a sudden, the text that I was manipulating developed a colored background box behind it. I switched to the Artistic Text Tool and now all text I type has this unwanted background. I have looked at all character options to see if I somehow triggered this style by mistake, but have not found anything. I had to copy the non text elements from my document to a new document in order to work with clean text again. That worked. On the other hand, copying the text elements to a new document kept this unwanted formatting. I then converted the text to curves and was able to separate the characters from their unwanted box, which I can now manipulate as a square (curve). Please let me know if it is a bug or some mistake on my part. Here is a screenshot of the affected text. Thanks! Macbook Pro M1 Pro, Mac OS Monterey 12.6.8. Affinity Designer 2 v. 2.1.1, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 With the text selected, try Edit > Defaults > Revert or click the Revert button on the Toolbar: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Lopez Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Thanks. That did work, but it set my text selection back to default Arial 12pt txt. While it got rid of the unwanted yellow box, I still wonder why it appeared in the first place, and the solution set me back way farther than I intended. Anyway, I learned a bit from your suggestion, and will be playing the REVERT function further in order to familiarize myself with it. Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 It seems to happen when you copy text from a webpage that includes the background fill, and paste it into Designer. Unfortunately, the function to reset that is available only in Publisher via the Text Frame panel, so when it happens in Designer you need to revert the text defaults to get rid of it. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Lopez Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Thanks again for your suggestions. This text item or selection has been copied again and again from many previous versions of this design that I update regularly (it's a flyer for recurrent events). It has been copied from one artboard and pasted into a new design no less than 10 times during Designer v1.xx era, and is just exhibiting this odd behavior since I upgraded to Designer 2.x.x. I still can't shake the feeling that some bug is at work here. To make matters worse, yesterday I was working with some textures that (curves) that I imported from an Illustrator file and while grouping them, the whole artboard got corrupted and displayed random black rectangles across the screen. I had to save, quit and reopen in order to continue working. Sad I didn't take a screenshot, but take my word for it, something went afoul in the program. If it is a widespread issue, hopefully it gets properly documented and reported so that developers look into it. If it happens again, I will document it. Anyway, your suggestion helped for now. Best! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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