Outlines remaining for hidden frame text

[anweid]

Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.139 on Windows 7 (64bit, German) behaves as follows:

• If a drawing object which is not a frame text is hidden with the Layers panel, it becomes completely invisible on the page. Fine.
• If a frame text is hidden with the Layers panel, only its contents becomes invisible, but its rectangular (blue) outline is still displayed. This outline cannot be selected with the mouse, but it's still visible.

It would be more logical if frame text would be exactly as invisible as all other drawing objects when hidden.

Andreas Weidner

[MickRose]

If you untick the View/Show text flow the blue line goes. I'm not sure if this is good design or not.

[anweid]

Hmmm, well, yes, thanks. Some additional thoughts on that:

• When doing as you suggested, not only the frames of the invisible texts vanish, but all frames of all texts, which is undesired. I want to keep everything visible but the text frames that I defined as invisible by hiding them in the Layers panel (why should a text frame be still visible if the user wants to explicitly hide it?).
• The 'Show text flow' menu entry seems a bit misnamed, because it doesn't only show the text flow, but text frames in general, even of those texts that do not have a dedicated flow (because they neither have overflowing text nor are linked with any other frames).

Therefore, I suggest one of the following changes:

1. Either, having an invisible text frame takes precedence over 'Show text flow' (I would prefer that).
2. Or, if 'Show text flow' must take precedence by some reason: Only show an invisible text as blue frame if a text flow is available for that frame, meaning it either has overflowing text, or is linked to some other frame.

Andreas Weidner

[MickRose]

agree

[Chris B]

I think the outline should hide too. I've just checked Photo and it hides in that... I'll check with development as somethings are changing in 1.7 and I'm not always sure what might be intentional or not. Thanks guys.

Oddly, the View > Show Text Flow menu item hides it but... I think it should still hide the outline. I've only got one text frame and it isn't overflowing anywhere so it doesn't make sense to me.