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Hi DM1, thanks. I was looking for the option panel, not the tool itself. In the last my attachment you can see an highlighted button (desktop version of AD) that opens a control panel named "Cornice di testo" (italian translation for "Text Frame"). It allows to modify fill and stroke colors of a textbox.
It's been confirmed in another post it's there by mistake (a bug) and for sure not present in AD iPad version. ☹️

It's just as you said, Walt.
Thank you for this information. That's too bad, I think a basic control for fill/stroke in text boxes should be available in this kind of software. I hope they'll place it officially one day.
Thank you both for your time.
👋😊

Hello everyone,
I'm posting about something that confuse me in Affinity Designer.
On almost every graphic software you can assign a fill color o stroke color to a text box.
AD can do it too,... but in very odd way.
If you create a text on path with "Artistic Text tool" the button to open the panel (or studio) "Text Frame" is visible in the option text bar (see attachment).
But this button is not available if you use "Text Frame tool" o "Artistic Text tool" without a text on path.
If you close the Text Frame studio panel by mistake and previously used it, all new text boxes will come with last colors used (see second attachment) and the only way to adjust it is to create a new text on path to reopen the option panel.
Is that a bug?
thanks.

Go to the Layers panel and click on the upper layer to select it. Now click on the ‘Blend Ranges’ gearwheel at the top of the panel to display the Blend Options dialog.
At the top of the Source Layer Ranges graph you’ll see a line joining a black node on the left to a white node on the right. It’s at the top of the graph because everything is at 100% opacity, but if you drag the right-hand end all the way down you’ll make the white pixels in your image 0% opaque (i.e. 100% transparent). At this point the black pixels will still be 100% opaque but everything else will be semitransparent; to restore full opacity to all the non-white pixels, drag the left-hand end of the line straight across towards the right, stopping when the white pixels begin to reappear.

Hi everybody,
congratulations for your awesome software. I love it and I expect great things from it in the future.
I hope you'll add the possibility to change the rulers origins (point 0) and to manage more pages but one thing I miss most is the shape fusion (see attachment).
Will you implement it?
Thank you and congrats again.
My best.
 
Simone
 

Many of us grew up with multi-page documents in Freehand - it's one of the "features you'd expect". ;)