JDW Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 I am comparing Illustrator text selection to that of Affinity Designer 1.3.2. In Illustrator, if I have multiple text boxes present on the page, I need only choose the Type Tool and the pointer changes to an I-beam, and when I mover that point over any text box, the box highlights with a blue underline. I can then click and drag to select text. And once text is selected that way in one box, I need only do the same thing to select text in another text box. No double-clicking or special text insertion tricks required. No so with Affinity Designer though. In Affinity Designer, if I click the Artistic Text Tool and hover over any text boxes on the page, none of the text highlights. Furthermore, if I try to just click-and-drag atop any text box, AD creates a new text box rather than highlighting text in the existing box! I am forced to double-click to insert the text cursor inside an existing text box in AD. And once there, I cannot simply click-and-drag on another text box to select it. I must go to the trouble of double-clicking to insert the text cursor in other text boxes. It may not sound like much, but this time waster is a huge time waster when you deal with a lot of text editing like me. One more thing. There is a small but noticeable lag when it comes to selecting a lot of text by click-and-drag and even typing text. It feels on order of 200ms or so for text selection, and less than that for typing text. I feel no lag at all when selecting text by click-and-drag or tying text in Illustrator though. This is true in an existing document as well as in a new document. annalam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if selecting text can be improved in future. One thing: you don't need to double-click with the text tool to select a new object. A single click will do. There shouldn't be a 200ms delay when selecting or typing text. Could you post a sample document so I can check whether it happens for me? It doesn't for an A4 page of 12pt Arial, but maybe there's something about your document that is making a difference. If not, it may be a general performance issue that I'll refer to one of my colleagues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDW Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if selecting text can be improved in future. One thing: you don't need to double-click with the text tool to select a new object. A single click will do. There shouldn't be a 200ms delay when selecting or typing text. Could you post a sample document so I can check whether it happens for me? It doesn't for an A4 page of 12pt Arial, but maybe there's something about your document that is making a difference. If not, it may be a general performance issue that I'll refer to one of my colleagues. Here's a 60fps QT video screencast (25MB) with voiceover that shows the difference between Affinity Designer 1.3.2 and Illustrator (text handling): https://copy.com/fI0jyEYkY19RImia Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Thanks for that. I'll see what I can do. JDW 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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