Hi - This has just started happening with Layout 2026 - I get these lines extending away from two of the corners of some of my text boxes when I add a border around them using the “stroke” tool. The lines appear in printed PDF exports as well, except in different directions. It’s as if the lines are meeting at some random vanishing point off the screen. I turned off the “stroke” and turned it back on - lines came back. As a workaround, I turned off “stroke” and just drew a rectangle around the text box - still, odd bug!
Can you share the LO file that shows this?
Sure, you bet! I simplified this to a single sheet where the behavior was happening. Thank you - many times over! It’s still too big to upload, but here’s a google drive link, if that works? sample layout file
If I move the text box, the lines don’t update, until I save the file, and then they follow the text box
Can you show a screen shot of the text box with the extending lines?
I have the file now. You might want to remove it from the link since it contains sensitive information.
Although it would have still been too large to upload directly, I did have a look at your SketchUp file. I fixed incorrect tag usage, purged unused stuff, and reduce the size of some excessively large textures.
That reduced the size of the SketchUp file by 64%. This would have a carry-on effect in LO. There’s at least one unused reference in the LO file that could also be purged.
I don’t want to do anything to the LO file until I see your screenshot of the errant lines.
found the trigger - it seems to only happen with text boxes that have active links in them. I cut the link out of one box, and it stopped showing the lines shooting out to an unknown vanishing point. I then pasted the active link text into a fresh text box (unbounded), and the perspectival lines appeared in that box. No ide why, but at least got rid of the problem, as long as I don’t want to share active links in my drawings.
AI reasoning: When a active hyperlink is embedded inside a text element, LayOut generates invisible internal bounding box coordinates for the clickable area. When you enable Stroke on that same text frame, the vector engine misreads those internal link coordinates as vector vertices. It attempts to draw the stroke boundary from the text frame out to the link’s relative origin point, sending those phantom perspective lines shooting off across the screen.
Because the glitch is tied to the hyperlink metadata interacting directly with the box stroke, here is the cleanest way to keep your clickable links and your bordered boxes side-by-side without triggering the bug:
The Workaround: Separate the Link from the Box Frame
To have a bordered box with a functional link inside it:
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Keep Stroke OFF on the Text Box: Leave your text box containing the hyperlink with Stroke disabled in the Shape Style panel.
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Draw a Separate Rectangle: Select the Rectangle Tool (
R), draw a border box around your text, and set its Stroke to whatever line weight/color you like. -
Group Them: Select both the text box and the rectangle, right-click, and select Group (
Cmd + G/Ctrl + G).
By keeping the vector stroke on a standalone rectangle object, LayOut’s renderer won’t mix up the hyperlink coordinates with the stroke geometry, keeping your page clean and your link fully functional!