[Designer - Text Background Colour]

5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It's unclear.

In 1.6, when you converted a shape to a Text Frame, you lost the stroke and fill completely. Users complained about that.

So, in 1.7, when you convert a shape to a Text Frame, you do not lose the stroke and fill. And now users complain that they can't edit the stroke or fill.

I think it might have been an intentional change, but it's possible it's a bug. I don't recall if anyone from Serif has commented about this.

The lack of the Text Frame panel is, I think, intentional. But again, only Serif would know and I don't know if they've commented.

But for now, if you want to be able to edit the stroke and fill of Frame Text in Designer, you do that by putting a shape behind the Text Frame. That aspect has not changed from 1.6; it was required then, too.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it worked differently before. 

[Designer - Text Background Colour]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It sounds like you might have turned the rectangle into a Text Frame, rather than simply placing Frame Text inside the rectangle.

If you start with a rectangle, then you have two possibilities:

1. If you click on it with the Frame Text Tool, the rectangle becomes a Text Frame, and you lose control over the stroke and fill of that Text Frame because Designer does not have the Text Frame studio panel.
   Or,
2. If you click and drag within the rectangle using the Frame Text Tool, you will create a Text Frame on top of the rectangle. The rectangle remains a rectangle, and you retain control over its stroke and fill.

 

Thanks, I wanted to change it to a Text Frame, but surely you should be able to edit it, if you can't edit it then it should just remove all the fills and style's. Is this how it is meant to work? Or have they just 'forgotten' to include a way to edit it. 

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Just now, R C-R said:

If you are asking how to open the Text Frame Studio panel in Affinity Publisher, select it in the View > Studio submenu, or with the text frame selected with the Move Tool, click on the Text Frame button  in the context toolbar.

If you can't see the button, the workspace window may be too narrow to show it. If so, click on the  button at the right edge of the context toolbar to pop up a small menu with the button on it.

I'm using Designer.... I can't find the equivalent option. I know how to change it in Publisher, but not in Designer. 

[Designer - Text Background Colour]

I have created a rectangle with a red fill

I have used the text frame tool to place some text inside of it

How do i change the background color of the rectangle?

In publisher i would use the Text Frame properties in Studio.... but can't find it.

I'm sure i'm just missing something.

 

 

[[Implemented] Data merge]

+1 for data-merge

I'm a very happy user of Designer, but without this feature I won't be kicking InDesign into touch for Publisher.