Designer Text Box Issue

[cleaser]

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

[walt.farrell]

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:

1. Select that text object/layer.
2. From the menu, Edit > Defaults > Revert, followed by Edit > Defaults > Save.
3. That should fix the frame background, but you will then need to respecify the font, font size, etc.

[cleaser]

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!

[cleaser]

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

[walt.farrell]

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?

 

[cleaser]

I will, thank you for your reply !

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[thomaso]

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.