Weird text issues with Mini Calling Cards

Right out of the gate:  I talked with CS already and it’s getting fixed, I’m not seeking help with that.

But I am ripping my hair out trying to figure out how this happened to begin with, so I can try to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

I designed some mini calling cards for my Etsy store.

Once I was satisfied with my design, I grabbed a screenshot to show a friend of mine, then I clicked ‘Add to Cart’, and then - all still without leaving the page or changing anything - I immediately clicked on ‘Sell it!’ and published a copy, hidden, to My Products, so I can order more later.

Well, I just received the cards.  The main text, my Etsy store name, the font box had been made much smaller, making the text inside 3 pts smaller (a big difference when it’s from 11 down to 8..) and the last letter of the first word had kicked down to another line by itself.  As a result of *that*, the following line had also been shoved way down.

The preview on my actual order page shows the messed up version, so I suppose I should have caught it there, but I had no reason to be looking closely.  I highly doubt a customer would think to make sure the design hadn’t changed, either.

Both the screenshot I took just before ordering, and the copy in My Products, have the correct layout.

I am utterly baffled.  All the CS agent could offer was ‘the changes weren’t saved’.  But I hadn’t made any changes.

Anyone have any idea what could have happened?

@Tannaidhe  Make sure your text template is stretched out the width of the calling card, that could explain why the last letter of the word moved down and it could be why your text sized got automatically reduced to accommodate the text template not being wide enough.

Not sure of any other reason why (other designers might know - that’s my first thought)

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Yeah, on the correct ones, I have the text boxes stretched from green line to green line.  That seems to be what changed - the box got pulled way in from the green lines, causing it to squish downwards.  Except, as I said…  I didn’t make any such changes.

Am wondering now, though, if being ‘on’ the green lines instead of ‘just inside’ the green lines might have triggered it to pull in?

@Tannaidhe  don’t know about that. I always go to the green lines (screenshot just over) but mostly I stay within them. On the first lot that were wrong - were the text boxes stretched across?

Hey @Tannaidhe ,

I am sorry to hear this happened and thank you for bringing it to our attention. We have followed up with you via email now.