Mr Lucky Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 I have a map and I want to add numbers to the houses. Ideal each number has an ellipse filled background or stroke So currently I add an ellipse, then the number and then group those two things (so I can easily move them as one) But is there a quicker way, e.g. so the text itself can have definable background. Quote
G13RL Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Hello, Mr. Lucky, If you don't need a number greater than 80 you can use a font for this, "Numberpile" for example. This free font is available on several sites, for example here: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/numberpile-font/ Just put the font in the desired color. Mr Lucky 1 Quote
G13RL Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 You can also draw a colored circle and a number, group them together and turn them into a symbol, disable the "Sync" button in the "Symbols" tab of the studio, place the symbols in the desired places and then change the number of each instance. Mr Lucky and markw 2 Quote
markw Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Just a quick note to add that with the use of special charters the Numberpile font can potentially go upto 200. There should be a guid in the Numberpile download showing which characters to use. Mr Lucky and G13RL 1 1 Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M
Mr Lucky Posted February 10, 2020 Author Posted February 10, 2020 22 minutes ago, G13RL said: Hello, Mr. Lucky, If you don't need a number greater than 80 you can use a font for this, "Numberpile" for example. This free font is available on several sites, for example here: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/numberpile-font/ Just put the font in the desired color. Really nice, and going to be great for others but one small problem for this project is the number remains transparent and I just found I need to use an arial photo, so there is a problem because the background showing through the transparent number is some times not enough contrast On the above map with constant beige houses as background to the number it's great though and I will be doing some of those in the future. Quote
Mr Lucky Posted February 10, 2020 Author Posted February 10, 2020 16 minutes ago, G13RL said: You can also draw a colored circle and a number, group them together and turn them into a symbol, disable the "Sync" button in the "Symbols" tab of the studio, place the symbols in the desired places and then change the number of each instance. This seems great, but nothing happens when I click on sync so I don't know how to disable it. Also how do I chamnge the number? If I click on it and type 30, it seems to make it transparent 30% Quote
G13RL Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Nothing visible on the drawing happens when you disable the "Sync" button, but it allows you to change the number of a single instance of the symbols you have placed on the drawing instead of changing them all at once. To change the number, take the "Text" tool, and select it by passing the cursor over it. Quote
Mr Lucky Posted February 10, 2020 Author Posted February 10, 2020 1 minute ago, G13RL said: Nothing visible on the drawing happens when you disable the "Sync" button, but it allows you to change the number of a single instance of the symbols you have placed on the drawing instead of changing them all at once. To change the number, take the "Text" tool, and select it by passing the cursor over it. No, I don't mean nothing happens on the drawing when I press tyhe sync button, I mean nothing happens on the button to let me know it is on or off. Quote
G13RL Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 When the button is disabled it is the same color as the tab, when enabled it is darker. Quote
G13RL Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Hello, markw, Thanks for the precision, I just checked and I didn't have the right police file, I only had 83 glyphs available. I just found a file with 213 glyphs here: https://www.wfonts.com/font/numberpile Thank you again for your intervention. Quote
G13RL Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 It's weird, it's true that the difference is not obvious, especially with the dark interface. Quote
Mr Lucky Posted February 10, 2020 Author Posted February 10, 2020 That looks like I get, no change when you click Quote
markw Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, G13RL said: It's weird, it's true that the difference is not obvious, especially with the dark interface The curse of overly subtle Affinity UI elements strikes again! R C-R and G13RL 2 Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M
Mr Lucky Posted February 10, 2020 Author Posted February 10, 2020 Aha, I can see a very slight change if I get very close to the screen! Thanks. G13RL 1 Quote
walt.farrell Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 36 minutes ago, Mr Lucky said: Aha, I can see a very slight change if I get very close to the screen! Thanks. Adjusting the gamma setting in your Preferences for the User Interface may help, a little. G13RL 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
MikeW Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 If you are not averse to purchasing a font, I use: http://typodermicfonts.com/numbers-with-rings/ G13RL and Wosven 2 Quote
Mr Lucky Posted February 10, 2020 Author Posted February 10, 2020 58 minutes ago, MikeW said: If you are not averse to purchasing a font, I use: http://typodermicfonts.com/numbers-with-rings/ Thanks, that looks great, the expense will be the client's choice. Quote
Joachim_L Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 Another funny way without spending money, just doing with lists and decorations. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
Joachim_L Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 (edited) It looks even better with type 1,2,3,4..., 1,25 mm for left text and 2,3 mm bottom for numbers 1 to 9 and for numbers 10 to 99 left 2,5 mm. Top and right can be left 0 mm. As a hint: Arrow has to placed at the end of the line so you see no leftovers from the line. Plus you need a blank after the number being generated. I attached a beta file for those who want to experiment themselves. zahlen.afpub Edited February 11, 2020 by Joachim_L Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
GarryP Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 An alternative method would be to create a circle and then convert it to a Text Frame. By doing this you can change the text easily without having to go ‘inside the group’. It doesn’t always produce something that looks perfect, depending on various things, but with some tweaking of settings you can get something fairly nice. numbers-with-circle-backgrounds.afpub Quote
Mr Lucky Posted February 11, 2020 Author Posted February 11, 2020 2 hours ago, GarryP said: An alternative method would be to create a circle and then convert it to a Text Frame. This sounds good, another thing to try. My concern would be they may not all be the same size, ie grow or shrink depending on the size of the number? Quote
GarryP Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 The circular Text Frame stays the same size, unless you manually resize it. One thing you need to do though is check that all the numbers you want to use can all fit in the same size frame. E.g. Try a 1, does that look okay? Try an 88, does that look okay? Try a 326, does that look okay? You might need to tweak some settings – frame size, font size, leading, maybe others - to get them all looking the same before you start using it ‘in anger’ as the ‘circularness’ of the frame sometimes seems to interfere with the text in unexpected ways. Quote
h_d Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 It's probably not a huge concern, but it's worth remembering that some fonts (mainly those known as "Old Style") treat numeric characters as lower-case, some with descenders and some with ascenders. This can make the individual characters appear not to be vertically aligned, which may look odd on a map: All these characters in Bodoni 72 Oldstyle have the same character and paragraph settings, and the circular text frames, as suggested by @GarryP are exactly the same size. Yet 6 and 8, which have 'ascenders', appear higher in their frames than 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9, which haves 'descenders'. Meanwhile 1, 2 and 0, which have neither, look smaller than all the other characters. Here they are all in a row: (When I did this sort of thing for a living, I always used to find the figure 4 particularly annoying. It never seems to look right, no matter how you align it and no matter what font you choose. ) GarryP 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
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