AndreasFurster

Is it possible to convert Artistic text to Frame text?
I've a lot of Artistic text in a file, but I want to use them as Frame Texts.
 
How to do this??
 

At work, we use Adobe. I am loving being able to use variable fonts in Indesign.
At home, I use Affinity. I want variable fonts! Especially since some of my favourite families are being updated as variable fonts.
It’s time.

How does Affinity Publisher deal with variable fonts? Are there any plans to integrate related features?

Okay, a Newsletter persona is a little bit too much i think. I don't ask for a whole newsletter builder. (There are other programs for that.) Just a basic html exporter would be nice. If only for some prototyping. 
 
In Affinity Publisher this would make even more sense. 

Can this be moved to feature requests?

That's an impressive list of fixes, Mark - well done team! :)

I mean when the text flows around other objects. As opposed to when it wraps because it has hit the edge of its own container.

Art text is treated as a geometric shape, like an ellipse or rounded rectangle. It's easy to resize or stretch out of proportion. Dragging with the Art text tool creates new text with the given baseline and cap-height, much as dragging with a shape tool creates a shape with a particular size. Clicking with the Art text tool on the edge of a shape or curve converts that object into a text path.
 
Frame text is more, well, texty. Yes, it wraps. It is much easier to work with as paragraphs because you don't need to put in the line breaks in by hand. Dragging with the Frame text tool sets the size of the frame, not the size of the text in the frame. Similarly when you resize a text frame, it doesn't resize the text inside it. Clicking on a curve or shape with the Frame text tool converts it into a frame.
 
The differences will be even greater when Publisher comes out, because Frame text will get support for multiple columns, text avoidance areas, and flowing between frames; Art text won't.