In key notes I placed a text "T" and animated it with wipe on click to appear, but this strange 'T' as you can see below appears. Regardless the animation type it still appears like that.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 26.4
H3rC0rn5 wrote: …So, increasing the font size is the solution to the unreadble lettering.
It may be an old font. Fonts are supposed to be drawn from instructions, but some were just pictures made from pixels. You may want to try replacing the Ts with a different font. You may be able to select them all at once in the Object List and batch change to a more cooperative font.
H3rC0rn5 wrote: …So, increasing the font size is the solution to the unreadble lettering.
It may be an old font. Fonts are supposed to be drawn from instructions, but some were just pictures made from pixels. You may want to try replacing the Ts with a different font. You may be able to select them all at once in the Object List and batch change to a more cooperative font.
I haven't seen this. It looks like a display memory artifact. Have you saved and restarted Keynote? Have you tried restarting the Mac?
You can also try re-starting in Safe Mode. This bypasses certain potentially disruptive processes, and it often helps. Safe Mode is different for different computers, so see this:
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
Let us know what happens…
H3rC0rn5 wrote:
;( I got the same results after starting up in Safe Mode.
So it's likely that it's Keynote, not a system glitch.
Do you know what font this is? I know that I have gotten a warning with I open an old Keynote file that certain fonts aren't available, so it tries to substitute. You can look at the Menu Format>Aa Font, or in the Inspector Format pane:
What happens if you change the font?
Okay, I had to reduce the pictuer to get the T to be free from the image. That resulted in every second T looking as a T should look like. (This sort of covered the image stretching as well.)
I increased the font size from 20 to 25 and amazingly I just got Ts as one would have expected from any size font.
Thanks for your assistance and trouble shooting. So, increasing the font size is the solution to the unreadble lettering.
H3rC0rn5 wrote: …The black text is actually an image, with the red Ts as a text box that is in front of the image.
Yes, the Ts are on the top layer
The text box has a transparent background.
And does the T text look normal when it's moved off of the questions page? This could be a kind of moiré pattern from different pixel resolutions. What happens if you stretch the page image? Or use larger Ts?
So, you're sure the font is available, right. And you've tried different fonts for the T, and they all look funny?
I'm beginning to run out of ideas. I'm using Keynote 13.2-- I didn't realize that it didn't automatically update! Now I'm a bit nervous about it…
I did shutted down and restarted the macbook pro.
The preview on the right is correct and the main display on the left only does it with single characters as you can see.
The MacOS: 26.4.1 (25E253) and Keynote Version 15.2.1 (7048.0.3) if that is helpful. Will do the safe mode restart and let you know.
That's correct I have tried fonts that are available, apple's own fonts.
The black text is actually an image, with the red Ts as a text box that is in front of the image.
I even tried different animations too.
If tried keynotes version 14.something, but it still have the issue and other issues too.
Yes, the Ts are on the top layer
The text box has a transparent background.
Yes, one should not break what is working. The new version is a bit disappointing in that it has some blot wear where apple is marketing their AI DRIVEN tools.
I tried using an older version of Keynotes, and sadly got the same result.
I also changed the font of three items to three different fonts, but the results were very similar, only the patterns line width changed.
;( I got the same results after starting up in Safe Mode.
Strange 'T' appears during text animation in Keynote
