Nagasaka

I know this might be old, but I am too wanting this. I too have hundreds of illustrations. 10 years of loving Xara, but hating having to use a PC on my Mac. Affinity is amazing but its sad to see all those years of work gone.... I still have the files but no way to open them. .XAR to affinity would be sooooo good!

How do we get the Beta version? This is not the Takegaki is it? this is related to vertical alignment correct?

YES please this would be amazing! My business is literally waiting for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost everything I make needs this! Just moved from Xara designer because of the amazing 3 sets of programs, designer, photo and publisher.... but no Tategaki. Rubi text would also be great.

I agree, this is one of the first features I went to use but could not. Trying to make several books for my business, will need to look around at what can be done

In Japanese they have a style of writing down the page. (Chinese also has it) I have looked everywhere how to do it, forums and it is not possible in Affinity. ( I know I can create a hundred thin text boxes and do it that way but that does not work. I am not going to create a textbook like that. This would be a super handy function to have in an update. If selling in Japan and wanting the mass market to buy, this would be a must. Also having What they call RUBI text, would be great. This is the ability to have smaller character that tell the reader what the kanji mean just above or to the right of the character. Also a super important feature for Japan. I have attached two examples of that they look like.