Artistic Text - What Have I Done to Change the Text?

[Ditto Bird]

SOLVED, thanks for looking (see my last reply)

 

Hi folks, a day or two ago, I was experimenting with trying to have a background on Artistic Text objects (settlement names in the screen shot below). I couldn't do what I wanted, but now when I add new artistic text, it's all puffed up as per the red circle on the bottom of my screen shot. If you look at other names on the screen shot, I'd like to get back to that.

I know I did something, but cannot recall what, sorry. 🙁 I know how to rotate text (I use the transform panel), but not sure what made the text so "fat".

Any ideas on what I should check? Thanks.

Photo 2 on Win 10 Home, using 12 pt Bookman Old Style font.

 

 

[R C-R]

If you hide that layer in the Layers panel, do you see any other text there?

[pbasdf]

One possibility - it looks like you might have swapped the fill and stroke colours: in the Context toolbar, the fill is showing as 'no fill', and in the Colour panel, the stroke is showing as black (and the fill as 'no fill'). Try switching them back by selecting the text and clicking the curved double-headed arrow above right of the two colour wells on the Colour panel.

[Ditto Bird]

5 hours ago, R C-R said:

If you hide that layer in the Layers panel, do you see any other text there?

I do, yes thanks. That one, and the other text objects, disappear when their individual layers are turned off while the others remain. 

[Ditto Bird]

4 hours ago, pbasdf said:

One possibility - it looks like you might have swapped the fill and stroke colours: in the Context toolbar, the fill is showing as 'no fill', and in the Colour panel, the stroke is showing as black (and the fill as 'no fill'). Try switching them back by selecting the text and clicking the curved double-headed arrow above right of the two colour wells on the Colour panel.

Ha! That was it. I had to set the font colour on the context tool bar and then had to make sure the foreground colour was off or it "got fat".

Thank you so much.

 

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, Ditto Bird said:

I do, yes thanks. That one, and the other text objects, disappear when their individual layers are turned off while the others remain. 

What I meant was if you hide that text object, do you see another one in the same location, but it doesn't matter since you found the solution.

[Ditto Bird]

On 11/26/2024 at 10:25 AM, R C-R said:

What I meant was if you hide that text object, do you see another one in the same location, but it doesn't matter since you found the solution.

Sorry, I can often be dumb as ditch dirt. 😀 All the best!