Text on Path characters rotated?

[jAffinitySerif]

Why is every letter in my text on a circle slightly rotated clockwise?

 

[lepr]

On 8/8/2024 at 2:27 AM, jAffinitySerif said:

Why is every letter in my text on a circle slightly rotated clockwise?

That was a bug years ago. Looks like you have a very old version of Designer. The bug is not in 1.10.8, which was the last of the 1 series on macOS.

Edited August 9, 2024 by lepr

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, lepr said:

That was a bug years ago. Looks like you have a very old version of Designer. The bug is not in 1.10.8, which was the last of the 1 series on macOS.

https://store.serif.com/update/macos/designer/1

[jAffinitySerif]

I am running Affinity Designer version 1.10.8.

[carl123]

14 minutes ago, jAffinitySerif said:

I am running Affinity Designer version 1.10.8.

Please upload your test Affinity document to the forum 

[jAffinitySerif]

6 hours ago, carl123 said:

Please upload your test Affinity document to the forum 

In creating this test file, I notice that the bug (every character is independently rotated a few degrees) coincides with horizontal scaling of the text (as applied in the “Positioning and Transform” section of the “Character” studio). When text is scaled less than 100%, the characters rotate clockwise; when text is scaled more than 100%, the characters rotate counter-clockwise.

test.afdesign

[carl123]

Thanks for the test file. I can confirm this also happens in 2.5.3

It was logged as a bug in 2019

Not sure if it was fixed then and has resurfaced but probably best to make a new bug report in the bugs forum (just copy your above post with the 2 screenshots)

 

[lepr]

8 hours ago, jAffinitySerif said:

In creating this test file, I notice that the bug (every character is independently rotated a few degrees) coincides with horizontal scaling of the text (as applied in the “Positioning and Transform” section of the “Character” studio). When text is scaled less than 100%, the characters rotate clockwise; when text is scaled more than 100%, the characters rotate counter-clockwise.

Oh yes, I see that has never been fixed.

The bug that was fixed years ago very noticeably rotated each character when the characters were 100% wide.

[Dan C]

@jAffinitySerif, @lepr, @Alfred & @carl123 - please note I have 'split' this discussion from the Tutorial post to a new thread in the correct section of the Forums, you may want to 'Follow' the post here to be notified of new replies.

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In regards to the issue being reported, I can confirm that I'm able to replicate this in both V1 & v2 of the Affinity apps, therefore I'm getting it logged with our team now - referencing the report linked by Carl above.

I hope this helps

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Text on a path characters rotate away from baseline based on Horizontal Scale value " (REF: AF-4056) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2805). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.