DJP Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 I created a picture frame and inserted the image of the whale. Then I added a rectangle below it, converted to a text frame, and entered the caption. a. Why is the text box so tall? If I drag the handled to shrink it vertically, the text moves outside the text frame -- weird! (See second screen shot below.) I also get the text overflow symbol, but there is no additional text; it's just the one word. I have checked the paragraph settings and there is no space above. b. What do the two empty circles mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted September 22, 2023 Author Share Posted September 22, 2023 (edited) OK, I found the answer (I think). There was an inset at the top as shown in the Text Frame panel. I have no idea how that got there; is that part of the paragraph style? I edited the style in use but could see no setting for this. Edit: spoke too soon. I just added two more captions and ran into the same extra-tall text box problem. For these two there is no indent shown in the Text Frame panel. Edited September 22, 2023 by DJP Additional information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oufti Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Check also in the Text frame panel that Ignore wrap and Ignore reference grid are both ticked, as it can cause text to be chased out of its box… (I have no idea about the 2 red handles.) Quote Affinity Suite 2.5 – Monterey 12.7.5 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted September 22, 2023 Author Share Posted September 22, 2023 Thank you! "Ignore text wrap" seems to do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Oufti said: (I have no idea about the 2 red handles.) Those indicate there is overflowing text in this Frame Text Text Frame. They are located where the (nonexistent) connections to earlier/previous and later/following text frames would be made. Oufti and DJP 2 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 11 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Those indicate there is overflowing text in this Frame Text Text Frame. They are located where the (nonexistent) connections to earlier/previous and later/following text frames would be made. And they appear only when View > Show Text Flow is in effect, if I remember correctly. Oufti 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...
Oufti Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: 19 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Those [red handles] indicate there is overflowing text in this Frame Text Text Frame. They are located where the (nonexistent) connections to earlier/previous and later/following text frames would be made. And they appear only when View > Show Text Flow is in effect, if I remember correctly. Yes you do, thank you both of you. And it's also only when the frame is not selected. walt.farrell 1 Quote Affinity Suite 2.5 – Monterey 12.7.5 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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