Search the Community

or Is there a way to turn Text Frames into Artistic Text. I am trying to quickly resize the frame to the text. Thanks!

The "Frame text" help window states "Frame text can be created within rectangular (square) frames using the Frame Text Tool or within any curve or closed shape." but I cannot find any instructions of how to put Frame text in a closed curve or shape. Can I be directed to instructions or a tutorial that shows this Thanks

I have made the site names on the maps I've created in AD all with the frame text tool. However, many of those I imported from Illustrator are in rectangular text boxes but are artistic texts when I select them. A frame text is much easier to get out of (click outside the box and choose a tool = my own shortcut) but with artistic text I have to push esc a couple times and then select a tool. I often click outside (forgetting that the name is not a frame text) and then have to get back to where I was before. Earlier an AD moderator seemed to like my idea of making a click outside an artistic text work like it does with a frame text---and I hope that will appear in some update. In the meantime, is there anyway to change an artistic text to a frame text (either individually or globally)? I do not see this option in the bottom left of the Context Toolbar. To date I've simply been creating a new frame text and replacing the artistic box, but for thousands of names, that is a real chore. Many thanks. PS: All of my work with text anchored on a stroke must of course be artistic text, but any reason why my text within what appears to be a frame text rect is actually artistic text? Just wondering if there is any answer.

Hi guys, I do not manage to change any of the attributes of the surrounding frame of any Frame text. I would like to have a background color and some more padding towards the border. The only way I managed to do so, is to use a formatted square and align artistic text over it. Is there a way to apply formatting to the frame of a fame text? Thanks Lars

Hi I understand style essentially is fill and stroke so if i make a style i'm pretty much saving a colour. I know I can set up a text font size and leading and select it to be default and then when i create a new text frame I can paste without format and I think the leading and font size and color that i set as default should be applied. I am not sure if that applies across documents or not. It would be quite handy to set up a page with default headlines paragraphs and subheadings. I am not sure if its possible to take a paragraph font / leading style and apply it to another existing text frame. maybe if i set my default go to the existing box select all cut and paste without format. Something I am doing which isn't working very well. I have an existing pdf document with the text styles I want and affinity opens it quite well sometimes changes case on me but it does create text boxes from the imported pdf file. It does use the correct font and colour for each section. sometimes that might be 3 text types/styles in a single text box. I am trying to take these text styles from the imported pdf file and apply the layout to my new text frames. It seems to use the correct font but the leading is all wrong. E.g the original paragraph might be roughly 11 point text on 12 point leading but if I set the default from the imported text box I seem to get the right font but the font will be 11 point on 11 point leading. Not the approximately 12 point leading that I was expecting. Is there anyway i can recover the formatting from the imported pdf file or do I have to create something similar from scratch. Still beating indesign it can't open a pdf file at all :)

Granted it took Adobe something like 20 years to put this feature into Illustrator, so I'm not expecting this to appear overnight, but is there a way to convert between these two kinds of text types?