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Hi all. I just started using Designer yesterday and am having a text issue. I'm using Artistic text because I mostly only need a few words here and there on a pattern drawing.

When I started work this morning, I could click Enter at the end of a line of text inside a text box to drop down to the beginning of the next line as usual. A few minutes ago, things had changed and hitting Enter took me back to the beginning of the current line and the new text typed over the old. I'm not aware of having changed anything (but being a newbie I could have without realising!) so does anyone know what the problem might be please?

Any help would be much appreciated please.

Edited by Handyann
Being an idiot!
Posted
2 minutes ago, Handyann said:

hitting Enter took me back to the beginning of the current line and the new text typed over the old

That sounds like you've activated the "No Break" option in the Character panel somehow.

4 minutes ago, Handyann said:

Also, I can't get the text inside the textbox to align centrally with itself.

That's a function of Frame Text, and the Text Frame Tool, I think. Artistic Text doesn't really have a frame in which you'd align the text.

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12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

 

That's a function of Frame Text, and the Text Frame Tool, I think. Artistic Text doesn't really have a frame in which you'd align the text.

You can align center with the Artistic Text tool but you wouldn't see anything unless there is more than one line of text.

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19 minutes ago, Handyann said:

things had changed and hitting Enter took me back to the beginning of the current line and the new text typed over the old.

This could be caused by setting the leading to 0 (zero).

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.

Posted
14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Artistic Text doesn't really have a frame in which you'd align the text.

If you have several lines with Line
Breaks then We can align them.

If you have several lines with Line
Breaks then We can align them.

If you have several lines with Line
Breaks then We can align them.

 

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.

Posted

Thank you for getting back to me. As far as I know I haven't changed anything in the Characters panel - I don't actually know how to find it yet! - and certainly not fiddled with the Leading (?) Are there any ideas how I can fix the problem please?

I edited my original question because I did find out how to centre-align the text about 3 seconds after I posted, as you do 🙄

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