AntiqueFlaneur Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 I'm putting a caption below a picture and would like to surround the text frame with a solid black line on all sides. I'm sure this functionality is in Affinity Publisher, but I just wasted a good 30 minutes looking through menus and searching google with no luck (probably don't know the right words to search). Can anyone help me out? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 If I understand you correctly you are looking for the Stroke option in View > Studio > Text Frame Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 It is very confusing and not logical in Publisher. If text frame is selected, fill must color the background (not text) and stroke must change the thickness of the frame (not text). Just like in InDesgn. It's a good idea to add "T" icon in: Swatches panel and if it is activated then you can add fill and stroke fill to the selected text, otherwise you can fill the text box background or text frame, and to the Stroke panel were you can control if a border/outline is added to a text frame or to a selected text. Wosven 1 Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 3 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said: It is very confusing and not logical in Publisher. Not too confusing if you consider that Text Frames are objects in their own right, separate from the text inside them. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 30 minutes ago, R C-R said: Not too confusing if you consider that Text Frames are objects in their own right, separate from the text inside them. OK then, InDesign is confusing. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Petar Petrenko said: OK then, InDesign is confusing. InDesign? Or Designer? Designer simply does not have the function to put a stroke or a fill on a Text Frame; those are both Publisher-only functions. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: InDesign? Or Designer? InDesign. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said: It is very confusing and not logical in Publisher. +1 The problem with those contextual mini-panels for colour/tint/gradient is that sometime it make it difficult to choose the colour or swatch you want when you're able to do this easily for other item relying mainly on the same option. Because you've got a contextual colour | tint | gradient and inside it, if you want to modify or set a colour, you'll open a sub-mini-colour | tint, etc. Sometime, it seems like there are colour panels everywhere... Edited May 31, 2020 by Wosven Forget the quote! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 12 hours ago, Wosven said: Sometime, it seems like there are colour panels everywhere... Yes. For the start they could join Colors and Swatches paletes like Paragraph and Character styles and put all boxes, sliders and wheels to be visible all the time. So, we can use what we want at once, and decide in which format to save the colors named like: C25 M25 Y15 K0 R253 G120 B80 H20 S5 L18. mrqasq 1 Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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