Pilate

I was afraid of that. I know it can be done however - I've attached a screencast. I wonder if a set of curves could be 'attached' to the text box outline and move along with the changes.... I'm never savvy enough it seems to get what I want.

I'd been using an application called Comic Life to make some presentations. There are some nice aspects of the app, but it's a bit tedious - What I need to do is create text containers that will have stroked outlines as well as fill. I know one can make a text frame out of shapes but I can't seem to apply a stroke (or see one) after a conversion. What am I missing here?

Thanks very much to you both! I think I've settled on an approach I can rely on.

Thanks for a very succinct and useful response! In the example you are using layers as proxy pages. Is this just as good as creating seperate art boards - better? I'm thinking it would be prudent to build something that could be converted into a single page web presentation.

I'm not a graphic designer, so I don't keep up on the world of digtal design. I need to make a presentation of work I've done over the years as a product designer (actual items) and I'm disinclined to submit to the Adobe plantation. I do however use LR which I started using when it first came out. My question is whether I can use AD for creating a multipage presentation that can be viewed locally or posted online perhaps even taking advantage of Bespoke...

I'm keen on escaping the adobe plantation. :unsure: But I keep getting frustrated with squinting to use the interface. Both tool icons and menu text is too small! Consider the visual effort expended on an application's interface and add it up over a day's use. That time and energy expended is that much lost on the work that matters. This may be acceptable on an occasional basis but if one's using an application daily for hours at a time, the interface design is critical. I think this aspect is a major factor in expanding adoption.

I've been off for some time and involved with other applications. I just came back to see if there was any progress. I'm glad to see my posting stirred up a bit of demand. I was once an Apple guy. But that was when apple still gave a damn about professional users. They've become rather arrogant and dismissive of any who don't keep up with what's 'now'. An older Apple store told me in soto voice that the corporation had gone from transformative to transactional - as I hand him my credit card. Mr. Ives comes across as rather full of himself. The whole flattening of the UI for instance was unwelcome. He took a beautiful interface that took advantage of the machine made for visual display and ushered in something one would expect from a soviet factory. So when can we expect V2?? I'm not sure why you find it necessary to make everyone else wrong. Don't you have more important things to do than ranting on this forum? :)

On a high rez monitor, this tool icons become much too small. In general, an option to increase the size of all elements in the interface would be a very productive improvement.

I'm having this issue with most all applications of late on the Mac OS. That is, in the monitors native resolution the interface elements become too small to use without squinting. Apple as usual is ignoring the input about this (for at least three years now) and I've been told the issue cannot be resolved with the various programs that require the Mac interface. Is that the case with Affinity apps or is there some way we can increase the size of for instance the tool icons???