Affinity publisher BETA: Text from Browser format mixed up

[Mr T]

Pasting text from a range of websites - with or without choosing Unicode - into a frame gives this.

 

 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forum.

It looks like the text has come through just fine to me (unless I'm not seeing what the problem is).
All you need to do is change your text size/formatting and/or baseline grid and/or leading, as appropriate, via one of the tools/studios (see Help for instructions).
Publisher will normally try and use the last-used in-app text formatting for new text frames - or artistic text - so sometimes new text gets automatically formatted in a way you don't want. Publisher will not copy the formatting from your source document. You need to change the formatting as you need it but using Text Styles helps to mitigate this process by letting you apply formatting quickly.

[Mr T]

6 hours ago, GarryP said:

Welcome to the forum.

It looks like the text has come through just fine to me (unless I'm not seeing what the problem is).
All you need to do is change your text size/formatting and/or baseline grid and/or leading, as appropriate, via one of the tools/studios (see Help for instructions).
Publisher will normally try and use the last-used in-app text formatting for new text frames - or artistic text - so sometimes new text gets automatically formatted in a way you don't want. Publisher will not copy the formatting from your source document. You need to change the formatting as you need it but using Text Styles helps to mitigate this process by letting you apply formatting quickly. 

Garry, I use Drawplus and Pageplus 6. We just copy and paste text off the web all the time. Easy.

In Affinity Publisher, the leading is way off and it is very time consuming to get it back to readable text. 

I doubt this is a default setting for imported/copied text ?

My screen shot shows copied text on the left, in white and spoiled formatting. This is straight form the web.

Right hand side shows the same text copied into word. 

The black text frame is the the Word file text copied back into the frame in Publisher.

So it's publisher 're formatting the text'. So a bug ??

 

 

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Mr T said:

So it's publisher 're formatting the text'. So a bug ??

Not necessarily. 

For example, presumably you created a Text Frame to paste into. That frame will have some defaults for font, font size, paragraph style, text style, and various settings in the character panel based on the last Text Frame you worked on.

They could easily cause issues like this you showed.

 

 

[Sean P]

Hi Mr T,

Have you tried pasting the text into a completely new document? It might be down to an edited Body style in your current document, however without seeing the document I cannot tell.

Would you be able to attach your AFPub file, along with a link to the website you're coping the text from please?

Thanks!