jenkirk02 Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 I recently added a frame text box to an existing document but when I started to type, the spacebar will not leave a space. Text is entered but the spacebar seems to have somehow been deactivated for that particular frame. I can copy and paste existing frames and modify the text in those with the spacebar functioning fine. Is there a setting in each frame that I somehow turned off on the newest frames? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted October 9, 2018 Staff Share Posted October 9, 2018 Hi Jenkirk02 Could you please confirm, which Affinity app are you using? If possible, could you provide a copy of the file with the text box in question? Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenkirk02 Posted October 9, 2018 Author Share Posted October 9, 2018 Designer, windows, version 1.6.5.123 The offending text frame is located on artboard 1, just to the right of artboard 13. The top frame is the one that I copied over from artboard 13 and can use the spacebar with. The second one is the text frame that I cannot space in. Murder_program.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 A comment: the spaces are being accepted; you just can't see them. You can tell this is happening if you: position the cursor between two letters, say between the r and d or murder, and then type 2 spaces, and then use the right-arrow key to move over the next character (d), and then use the left-arrow key to move the key over the r. During step 4, count the number of left-arrow presses you need. You should find that it was 4 rather than the 2 that would account for the visible characters. Therefore, the 2 spaces, though invisible, are there. I have no idea how this could happen. However, the same thing happens if I open your file in Publisher. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenkirk02 Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 That's so odd...and it just did it to me again with the artistic text tool as well, which is super annoying. Is anyone from Affinity able to help me troubleshoot this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Check your Paragraph Justification settings on the text that goes wrong. Yours have all been reset to 0%. Check your working text frames or create a new document with a text frame to see the default values Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenkirk02 Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 Thank you! That's so crazy! Fixed the justifications and it's all good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Q Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 I'm having the same issue when using the Miller Display font, however the justification values look ok to me? I'm using Publisher 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 1 hour ago, Kyle Q said: I'm having the same issue when using the Miller Display font, however the justification values look ok to me? I'm using Publisher 2. Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Where is the text cursor in that screenshot? It must be somewhere in the Miller Display line for the information in the Paragraph panel to be relevant. Can you share a sample .afpub file that demonstrates the problem? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Q Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Sorry only noticed that I hadn't the cursor on the miller display text, please see the new screenshot. I have attached the .afpub file too. Appreciate your help. Text Problem.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Where did you get the font, @Kyle Q? The one I'm finding is Miller Display, not MillerDisplay, in Publisher's font list. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Q Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 I'm not sure were we got the font, it was in the font library on the machine that I inherited from a colleague. Its a Postscript Type 1 font if that has anything to do with it. Does the Miller Display Font you have display correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 1 hour ago, Kyle Q said: Its a Postscript Type 1 font if that has anything to do with it. That could explain the issue; those old fonts are not well-supported in the Affinity applications (and support may be going away in other applications, too). 1 hour ago, Kyle Q said: Does the Miller Display Font you have display correctly? Yes, but I can't verify how close it is to the font you have, of course. @kenmcd may be able to comment more on this situation. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Q Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 That sounds logical to me, so perhaps we just need to buy the fonts in the Open Type format for them to display correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 7 hours ago, Kyle Q said: so perhaps we just need to buy the fonts in the Open Type format for them to display correctly? Yes. And you will get better language coverage and more features. And you will not have other odd issues like this. Are you going to use it for "Display", or for headings, or for text? Because there a other optical size variants which may be more suitable. This explains them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_(typeface) I think TypeNetwork sells all the variations. MyFonts only has some of them. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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