World View Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 How do you change the stroke color of a text box? I am trying this: I select the rectangle, click on the stroke color, take the color picker and select the color. Result: not the stroke color changes, but the background of the rectangle. I have accessed the "help" menu, but couldn't find a good description on how the logic of color selection works in Publisher For text boxes: Can I select a background and a stroke color for those? How do I do this? For now I am placing text boxes inside rectangles with selected background colors, but it feels impractical. Quote
World View Posted February 24, 2020 Author Posted February 24, 2020 I also cannot find the margin settings for text boxes. The letters always go right to the edge. What's the proper way to handle margins in Publisher? thanks! Quote
walt.farrell Posted February 25, 2020 Posted February 25, 2020 View > Studio > Text Frame will give you controls for the Text Frame itself, vs the text within the frame. That will include stroke and fill colors, as well as insets. World View and Celia at Grafted Works 2 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
StuartRc Posted February 25, 2020 Posted February 25, 2020 Text Box colour changes To add colour to a stroke you can also. 1. Select a text box 2. Select Fill (G) 3. Change the settings on the context bar. There are 2 Dropdowns that will let you switch between Frame | Stroke and Frame | TextFor Margins=insets Editing Margins/indent options are located on the Text Frame Panel Menu | View > Studio > Text Frame > and on the Text Frame Panel under 'General' use the 'insets' to adjust position of margins/edges (and link them if you want to set the same value!) World View 1 Quote Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.5.7.2948 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.6.0.3106 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.5371+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19060.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1
World View Posted February 26, 2020 Author Posted February 26, 2020 On 2/24/2020 at 4:25 PM, walt.farrell said: View > Studio > Text Frame will give you controls for the Text Frame itself, vs the text within the frame. That will include stroke and fill colors, as well as insets. Thank you, Walt! Quote
World View Posted February 26, 2020 Author Posted February 26, 2020 On 2/24/2020 at 5:52 PM, StuartRc said: Text Box colour changes To add colour to a stroke you can also. 1. Select a text box 2. Select Fill (G) 3. Change the settings on the context bar. There are 2 Dropdowns that will let you switch between Frame | Stroke and Frame | TextFor Margins=insets Editing Margins/indent options are located on the Text Frame Panel Menu | View > Studio > Text Frame > and on the Text Frame Panel under 'General' use the 'insets' to adjust position of margins/edges (and link them if you want to set the same value!) Thank you, Stuart! I added the text frame panel to my panels via Studio. StuartRc 1 Quote
StuartRc Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, World View said: Thank you, Stuart! I added the text frame panel to my panels via Studio. Pleased you have a solution...The options to adjust the text box/or content (text)...caught me out initially...but its easy when you know how Quote Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.5.7.2948 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.6.0.3106 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.5371+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19060.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1
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