unwanted converting of text into curves

[abra100pro]

Every now and then my text suddenly becomes curves - I don't know what action of mine leads to this - I'm completely unaware of when it happens.

Yesterday: copied some text from an email and put it into a textframe. saved the file and added another artboard. today: text is no editable text anymore!

Has anyone a clue?

Best

Alex

[Callum]

Hi Abra100pro

It's hard to say what might be causing this without seeing your workflow. If possible are you able to provide a screen recording of this happening? You could work on a file till this happens then save it with history and send me the file as this will allow me to look through the history and see which action is causing the text to be converted.

Thanks

C

[R C-R]

12 minutes ago, BofG said:

ctrl+enter will convert to curves, maybe a slightly sticky keyboard key?

On Macs, the equivalent default keyboard shortcut for the Layer menu "Convert to Curves" function is ⌘↩︎ (CMD + Return). It is fairly easy to type this by accident, particularly for those used to apps that require 'finalizing' text entry with that keystroke.

Because it is just a default keyboard shortcut, to avoid this the shortcut can be changed to something else harder to type by accident, or eliminated completely. Since most of the Affinity keyboard shortcut preferences are organized by where they appear in the menus, the shortcut will appear in the Photo > Layer section for Affinity Photo & in the Draw > Layer section for Affinity Designer.

[Pšenda]

4 hours ago, BofG said:

ctrl+enter

Some keyboard shortcuts are very dangerous - it performs destructive operations, and overlooking them (no immediate undoing) can be very annoying.

[Aammppaa]

22 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Some keyboard shortcuts are very dangerous - it performs destructive operations

I wish the Assistant was used more.

This is a perfect example where a simple popup would inform the user what had happened and why.

Advanced users could of course turn it off.

[iamdevlinph]

This is really annoying. I keep accidentally converting my text to curve. I'm used to photoshop which uses ctrl+enter to finalize the text.

To disable in Affinity Photo 2:

Edit > Settings > Shortcuts > Dropdown#1 - Photo > Dropdown#2 - Layer > Convert to Curves (remove the shortcut)

[abra100pro]

On 8/25/2024 at 6:55 AM, iamdevlinph said:

This is really annoying. I keep accidentally converting my text to curve. I'm used to photoshop which uses ctrl+enter to finalize the text.

To disable in Affinity Photo 2:

Edit > Settings > Shortcuts > Dropdown#1 - Photo > Dropdown#2 - Layer > Convert to Curves (remove the shortcut)

That was it! I use this on Photoshop, too, thanks, pal!

BTW: Phtoshop shortcuts and ways of handling stuff are way more productive. One sample: Setting the point of origin of an element: 

PSD: Option + click on element

AD: click on icon, zoom out too see the centre of your element, drag the element to the approx. point, zoom back in to find the exact spot, click