cleaser Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Hi all, I'm slowly getting to grips with Affinity Designer. I am having trouble with text boxes - both Artistic Text tool and the Frame Text tool. Any time I create text, there is a background fill. I have gone to the character menu to turn it off, however it persists. Please see the first attached screenshot - I can't get rid of the blue background! When I try to change the background colour (e.g. to red), I get the result in the second image - with a bit of the blue sticking out. So I'm not sure what's causing this! I never had this problem before with text, so no idea what's brought it on. I have quit the app and restarted it, but the issue persists. Any help much appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. That sometimes happens after pasting text in from an external source, such as a web page. In Publisher you would be able to resolve this using the Text Frame panel, but Designer does not have that panel available. Instead, try this: Select that text object/layer. From the menu, Edit > Defaults > Revert, followed by Edit > Defaults > Save. That should fix the frame background, but you will then need to respecify the font, font size, etc. cleaser 1 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...
cleaser Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 Thanks for the welcome, and for the advice. I did not paste any text, the problem happened when I created a text box and just typed. So must be a bug causing the problem. The steps you provided worked, thanks for that! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleaser Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 Just posting here for the record that the issue continues to happen to me, even after having reverted textbox defaults. Just wanted to make it known that this is a repeated issue for me. Not sure where is the best place to report this. MacBook Pro 14" M1 Max, Monterey 12.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 13 minutes ago, cleaser said: even after having reverted textbox defaults. Did you also do the Save, after the Revert? Can you provide a screen recording of this happening in a new document? 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...
cleaser Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 I will, thank you for your reply ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 You're welcome. 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...
thomaso Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 23 hours ago, walt.farrell said: From the menu, Edit > Defaults > Revert, followed by Edit > Defaults > Save. 5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Did you also do the Save, after the Revert? Is this a new behaviour in V2? – I am used in V1 that if "Revert" does reset an object style successfully as wanted than this resulting/expected style is currently/already saved as Defaults. Whereas if "Revert" does not reset a currently occurring object style to the expected default appearance than the object needs to get reset (restyled) manually first and then "Save" is required. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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