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Text flow bugs

rsms2

1. Describe the bug/issue you’re running into?
Text in paragraphs break words instead of reflowing words when space is limited

2. Are you able to consistently reproduce it? If so what are the steps?
Yes.
Make a post it and type some text with multiple words that cause soft line breaks

3. Share a screenshot, recording, console log, link to the file, etc.

Screen Shot 2021-04-22 at 11.32.24

4. Is the issue only happening in desktop app or a specific browser , or both?
Chrome

5. What OS/version and/or browser/version are you using?
Chrome 89, macOS 10.15

6 replies

Josh
  • Josh
  • Former Community Manager
  • 1019 replies
  • April 22, 2021

Hi @rsms2 👋
I believe we have this logged already but will double check with the team!

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  • 2 replies
  • April 22, 2021

Nice! Yeah, seem to happen a lot so not surprised you know about it. I didn’t see it from a search in the bug list though.

Screen Shot 2021-04-22 at 11.42.48

thudson
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edukamp
  • edukamp
  • 3 replies
  • August 4, 2022

I encountered this problem today for the first time, too. And i think i found it.
It happened when i copied text from one particular website to Figma. This Website was built with the CMS Government Sitebuilder.
I could not see anything in the code that would indicate hidden symbols. I removed all formatting in textedit and checked the code in an editor.
After that i copied the text out of the source code into word and back into figma. And then i could see spaces between all syllables. My guess is that the CMS inserts invisible spaces in UTF-8 to make correct hyphenation possible.

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Santiago_Mansilla

This happens in Figma with truncated texts. I need the words to separate in syllables.

Matt104
  • Matt104
  • 2 replies
  • October 21, 2024

HACK THAT WORKS! – “Remove Formatting” (Command + \ in Mac) tool in Gmail. I still have the problem of the line breaking in the middle of words when I paste text from different sources (Copilot) into Figma. I tried making it plain text in Text Edit first, but that didn’t even work. What DOES work is pasting it into Gmail and using the tool “Remove Formatting” (Command \ on Mac). Then, when I paste it into Figma, there is no issue.

gabriel.jorby

Got the same issue with someone sharing a PowerPoint document.

CleanShot 2024-12-12 at 12.52.02

Copy/pasting from PowerPoint to Word shows the space difference…
The first paragraph shows how it is formatted in the PowerPoint. After copy/pasting in Word, and using the app Pure Paste the odd space char has been removed

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