AlanPickup Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 I do not know if this is just in the Beta or may be the same for retail version also. I went to export a leaflet I had designed and it said there was overflowing text. As there was not many text boxes I just clicked on each and none showed as overflowing. As I was in preview mode I clicked this off with no difference. I then clicked outside the document and the overflow box was highlighted with a red dot. I have attached the file as it is not sensitive material. I also did not spot it as it read ok without the other wording showing. I do not know if because the other text boxes overlapped had any bearing myGP App.afpub Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted August 8, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 8, 2019 I've logged that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 I have a vague recollection early in the Publisher Public Beta of the red dots being added because the usual overflow indication can't show up unless the text frame is tall enough. -- 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...
lacerto Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 It would be ideal to have the actual overflow icon (handle) smaller, or somehow frame size independent. It is a very common usage to split text in one-liners (e.g. to put title, sub title, author, etc. in their own frames) -- now you need to make the frame temporarily taller to be able to flow, and then squeeze it back to the correct height to get the desired text. So that actual overflow marker (red dot, etc.) is not enough -- one needs to be able to also flow the text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Yes, and an always visible mark for flowing text would be usefull. While trying to add bottom of page frames for flowing footnotes, I had to spend my time zooming enough for the little arrow (for flowing to another frame) to appear, click on it, dezoom until I can see the next page and create a new frame, adjust it... And zoom again until I can see the red arrow for flowing text, click on it, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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