Relative font size to textbox

[mykee]

Dear developers,

Can you add a font feature to Affinity programs: relative font size to textbox width? I have a textbox with three lines, but justify all is not enough me, I need resize all fonts for textbox width. If I use artistic text, then I can use snaping when resize texts, but need same space between lines, and more, and I groupped these texts. If you can add this relative size to textbox, then can resize textbox too and text will smaller or bigger. Like a snap to textbox. What you think?

[Seneca]

If I understand you correctly, then, we already have that.

Just drag the bottom right handle and the text within the box will change its size.

[walt.farrell]

27 minutes ago, Seneca said:

If I understand you correctly, then, we already have that.

Just drag the bottom right handle and the text within the box will change its size.

It sounds like mykee has a text frame of the desired width already, and wants to affect only the font size within it, not the frame itself.

@mykee: can you give an example showing why Artistic Text does not work for you? I think it should, but would prefer to see the issue rather than guess. Also, which Affinity application(s) are you using?

[mykee]

Yes,  @walt.farrell said correct suggestion: I need same width, but different font size, align to width.
I made a few pictures, where I use this method. Here is my examples, and see left four lines (or book cover too): same font, and same width, but font size is different. I made this with Article text, no textbox. I think this will simpliest if I can use textbox width and height feature. I use latest (1.7.3) releases versions from Affinity programs.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks, mykee.

I think that Artistic Text is best for examples like that.

In case you're not aware, you can still use the settings in the Character panel and the Paragraph panel with Artistic Text. And rather than grouping different lines if you need to make a common adjustment, you can just select the ones you want in the Layers panel and adjust them in one operation.

[mac_heibu]

I think, something like this is done within seconds(!) by using single line artistic text and scaling it up to the desired size.

No extra feature needed at all.

[mykee]

Yes, I said, I make it with Artistic text, but I would like in textbox like as relative font feature, there change box width, then sizes and spaces, line heights and etc. will change too when I type it. As new feature will faster text creation. But if not, not, just I has an idea.

[mac_heibu]

If you need this, convert the text to curves and you are done.

I – personally – really don‘t like it, to integrate every user‘s actual favorite feature into an app. If the Affinity team accepted the individual wishes of only 50, 100 users, the app would definitely be completely unusable. And, individual skills and creativity would be killed by a „For every use case an extra button“ strategy. Example? Who still knows, how to create embossed object edges? This was common Photoshop knowledge in „ancient times“, now, all a „creative“ needs, is a simple button click. Really creative? I doubt it.

But: This „less buttons, more creativity“ is my opinion, nobody has to follow.