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Neither. I would hope to see this. The colored box inside the text...

So it seems absolutely clear that the problem is indeed a bug. If you have text which has no fill but has an outline you cannot put anything inside it. The only way to make it work is the workaround of giving it a Phil with a 0% capacity and then putting the object inside it. This works but is annoying! Converting to curves didn't work for me either, strangely. You really think that would work since I can put inside a square or whatever. ScreenHunter 02.mp4

I'd expect to see the text become transparent and the box (filled) inside it. What would you expect to see?

I'm on Windows and that is what happens for me. It must be a bug.

Hi all, I can't believe I can't make this work. All I want to do is to put an object inside some text. I create the text and I create a rectangle and I drank the rectangle inside on the layers palette. Take a look at the screenshots and you'll see what I'm actually getting. I want the rectangle inside the text. When I do I think ought to work the object disappears. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks very much, Phil

I know this must be really straightforward and I guess missing something but I want to make the first character of a character large and I can't work out how to do. The problem may be that I can't find any information on it because I can't remember what the correct word for it is. Is it drop cap? Searching help for that phrase doesn't help! Can anyone offer me any advice? Phil

I think that pretty much every Serif product in the past has had a zoom to width option with the keyboard shortcut of control+9. But now Designer does not. It doesn't seem like a big ask that this could be added. Any chance of getting this back? Thanks very much, Phil

Very good point. I did that.

I grabbed a colour chart from the Internet, converted it to vector in CorelDRAW, exported as a WMF, imported into Affinity Designer and from there created this palette. I don't guarantee that all the colours are completely accurate and of course, accuracy in something like this is pretty subjective. Anyway, I hope this is of use to people and enjoy! It may be best viewed as a list in the swatch palette since then you can see the names. I have been including Trainspotting orange in every palette I have created in every program I have used since the film came out! My signature colour! Named colors.afpalette

This worked really well! Thanks!

Hi all, I don't know what I'm doing wrong here. I was following along with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZznuJ05GbnA If you look at these two screenshots you'll see what I mean. I want to change the color of the phone to teal. I have selected the phone (then hidden the marching ants) but when I add an HSL layer and start moving it around it barely makes any difference. Is this because the phone is almost white in the first place? The rose in the video changes dramatically. If that IS the reason can anyone help with a method that might allow me to achieve this? Thanks! Phil

Hmm, separated mode? What's that? Sounds intriguing!

Plus one on all this stuff! I would love to have each column of panels individually hideable (such as the one topped with Color in my screengrab) Of course, what I really want is savable layouts like all the old Serif programs had. Ah, how I want that? I often take my laptop out of the house and need one layout on a single screen but when I'm at home, I plug in a second monitor and would love to be up to have a saved workspace with pallets all over the laptop screen while workspace is on my second monitor. I really hope this is in their roadmap for the future.

Aha, that helps though I'd still love a search option!

I don't really know if this is a question or a feature suggestion or request. I have a pretty complicated piece I'm working on and I created an arrow. I then moved it in the stack within layers and lost track of it. As a result I have had to expand and contract multiple sets of layers until I tracked it down. Affinity being great has named this arrow "arrow" within the layers palette. I wish there were a way to search for that item by name. If there were a magnifying glass button at the top of layers and I could type in "arrow" and it would locate anything name that and I will also be up to use this to locate blocks of text simply by typing in some of the words from that block of text. Is there anything that approximates this, even? Thanks for any advice and if there is nothing like this I can add this to the feature requests forum. Phil

Brilliant! Thanks again! That's great.

Wow, you're quick! I worked it out. I didn't realise that the add button was a boolean function but yes that makes total sense. I assume that, once I have added them I can't unadd them later so I should make an asset of them before I do that? Thanks again, Phil

Sorry to be dumb but I don't know how to use Add boolean operations. Can you expand on that? I'll do a search too. Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I know this must be simple but I can't make it happen. Take a look at the screengrab. I want this texture to fill the whole group of shapes. Can anyone tell me how to do that as currently I can only get it either behind all the items in the group or inside one of the boxes. Is there a way to do what I am looking for?

Ah. I see. Well, as a fifty year old (my profile pic was taken in about 1991) I remember a lot of that. I've been with Serif since 1994 when I got my first PagePlus. But I have to say, there was a time when seat belts were a luxury on a new car but we're not wrong to expect them as a minimum today! But Serif have always managed to put wrap into their other products and so they should be able to do it now and, IF THEY DON'T I WILL SCREAM AND SCREAM AND SCREAM UNTIL I'M SICK. AND I CAN.

You mean before computers? Not sure if I'm following you!

Perfect! Thanks!

Hi all, I have just recently come to realise that designer does not include a wrap feature which blows my mind. I can't believe that something so basic has been left out. I mean, I know that this is primarily an illustration program but DrawPlus certainly had the ability to wrap text around an object. Anyway, as a workaround I created a box (see screenshot attached) I then skewed it and then filled it with some text. As you see, the text is now sloping. Is there a way to make this not be the case? I just want to fill it with text that is normal and upright. Thanks very much for any help. Phil

Yeah. I do know that. It's just less fun! And less convenient.

Hi all, I'm going to attach a video that I made of me using CorelDraw. I created a text block with three lines on it. I then selected it and pressed control and K. This breaks the three lines into three individual objects. I then select one of those lines of text and press control and K again. This breaks it into words. That key combination again breaks a word into individual letters. At the end of the video I moved from the Pick Tool to the Shape Tool which are analogous to the Move Tool and Node Tool in Affinity Designer. Using the Shape Tool I can pick a node next to any of the letters within a line of text and move it around in order to fine tune the placing. I do a lot of punk rock style design work and it's really nice to be able to mess with the leading in this way. Is there any chance that Affinity could bring something like this? It would make a huge difference for me and I'm sure the others. Thanks I look forward to people's thoughts. Phil PS sorry for the Renegade Soundwave playing on the video. I forgot that my computer would record that. My wife pointed out that it is indeed a renegade soundwave. ScreenHunter 01.mp4