Text ghosting - Bug?

[Lhx3]

I have this artboard composed of figures and text for a journal publication. Randomly occurring, after selecting a text object and moving it, it leaves a flashing dashed outline of the text in the original position like a "ghost" of the original text. This "ghost" cannot be selected, deleted, and always returns even after closing the file and quitting AD. It does not even appear as an object in the layer panel.

 

Is this a function in AD that I am unaware of or this is a bug?

Picture attached. See "Small Events" with dashed outline at top.

BTW - it does not appear if the image is printed or exported as a .tiff, .eps, or .pdf.

 

 

Many thanks.

[R C-R]

I am not sure how you could have done it, but in the screenshot it looks like a pixel selection in the shape of the text outline.

 

If that is what it is, the dotted 'ghost' outline should be of the "crawling ants" type (like a line of ants marching around the outline), not flashing on & off. If that is what it is, then CMD + D, the keyboard command for deselecting selected pixels, should remove it, or you can use the Select menu > Deselect item to do the same thing.

[MEB]

Hi Lhx3,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

This is probably happening because you may be accidentally pressing ⌘ (cmd)  (or CTRL if you are on a Windows machine) and clicking on the layer's thumbnail in the Layers panel. Doing it creates a pixel selection with the contents of the layer. To get rid of the pixel selection just press ⌘ (cmd) + D on a Mac (CTRL + D on Windows) or go to menu Select ▸ Deselect as @R C-R pointed out.

[R C-R]

Thanks for the reminder, MEB. I keep forgetting the CMD click on the thumbnail feature exists & more often than I like to admit have accidentally created a pixel selection, usually when instead I meant to use the Option (Alt) click feature to isolate a layer temporarily.

[Lhx3]

Thanks MEB. It was indeed from cmd-clicking in the layer panel.