jennifer Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Hi - I'm new to Affinity (from Illustrator and Photoshop) but I'm having trouble finding info on how to do the basics - old habits from the CS software I guess How do I change the background fill on a text box?? I can change the fill on a shape no problem, but all that shows up on the menu when I'm working on a text box is a fill color for the text itself - what am I missing? thanks Aristocrates and iuli 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwilliam Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 You could create another shape below the 'text box' and fill it as you wish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennifer Posted August 12, 2015 Author Share Posted August 12, 2015 yep - thanks that's what I've done, but it seems clumsy for such an elegantly designed program - guess I'm really waiting for Publisher since I mostly do page layout Jennifer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 12, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 12, 2015 Hi Jennifer, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) I know it's not exactly the same but you can also define a background colour for the text in the Character panel (menu Text ▹ Show Character, Background box). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwilliam Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 MEB, I just tried that suggestion; as the Show Character didn't have an arrow indicating any sub menu and I have not needed Show Character yet, I had no idea this was there! I still do not know where I might have a use for this that an additional shape with a fill would not work better/easier but it is definitely going into the toolbag for when the day comes that I do want it. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 12, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 12, 2015 Hi justwilliam, It's not supposed to be an alternative solution. I agree with you, it's not of much use other than maybe highlight some text. What you suggested is the best way to solve it. That's why i said it wasn't the same thing. Currently there's no way to set a fill colour for the text box and even if there was, there no space around the text inside it so it would look too tight. Maybe if there was an option to set a padding value or something... but that's probably going to far for this :P Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseCaldwell Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Well, this was exactly what I was looking for, so thank you for that tip! I'd have never found that Show Background box. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meribor Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 (edited) That's not true, MEB, as the text box could have basic padding and alignment attributes. That was even a basic attribute of tables in Microsoft Word in the 90s. Affinity Designer doesn't have that feature, and, okay, fine, but what you therefore claimed is not true. It would be a very useful feature because then I could modify the shape, content, or style of the text box without then having to modify the box beneath it. Still, this program is a steal for just $50 to own when the other product is $60 per month to rent. Edited May 1, 2019 by meribor clarification Ulaxes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 That feature is available in Publisher. Would make sense to have it in Designer too but it is not yet in Designer beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 12 hours ago, bandass said: Use the Appearance Panel to add a new Fill to your text object by using the "new Fill" icon at the bottom of the panel. Next, highlight this new fill when it appears in the Appearance panel and use the Effect called "Convert to Shape". Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @bandass. Thanks for the suggestion. Note that the Appearance panel is new in the 1.7 beta for Designer. Also, I cannot get your instructions to work for a text object. Clicking on the "New Fill" button doesn't do anything for me. I'm using Windows, in case that matters. 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...
Aristocrates Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 On 5/2/2019 at 9:59 AM, Fixx said: That feature is available in Publisher. Would make sense to have it in Designer too but it is not yet in Designer beta. If it's available in Publisher, can you say where it is? In neither Designer nor Publisher have I been able to change the background colour of a text box. I did manage to create a text box with a background colour, but only by drawing the shape first, and then converting it to a textbox by clicking on it with the text frame tool. Any help gratefully received. alongtheway 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 12, 2019 Staff Share Posted July 12, 2019 Hi Aristocrates, Welcome to Affinity Forums Go to menu View > Studio > Text Frame and check the options on top in the General section. alongtheway, lisawilkins, Fixx and 2 others 4 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3joern Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 I also wait a long time for a feature that allow me to fill the Textbox with a background color. In any Interfaceprojekt I use this to reduce the Layers for Buttons. A clear understandable structure is the key, that many people can work on one project. That include less layers as possible. I remember sketch also have this option, don't understand why Affinity Designer don't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyPhil Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Create a shape box and set the fill and stroke as you see fit. Then right click the box using the pointer icon and convert to text frame. It converts it to shape text. A bit cumbersome but it works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3joern Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 I know, but after the convert to Textframe, you can't change the color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 16 minutes ago, 3joern said: I know, but after the convert to Textframe, you can't change the color. In Publisher you can, using the Text Frame studio panel. In Designer and Photo, which don't have that panel, you can't. jmark 1 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...
PeteMc Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Just curious if this has been resolved yet. Filling a text box is a pretty common/basic thing. What should have been a 5 minute mock-up by combining some images and cover/changing some designations as a favor has just wasted a few hours. Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 On 10/29/2020 at 2:15 PM, walt.farrell said: In Designer and Photo, which don't have that panel, you can't. Unless you know the secret handshake. 1 hour ago, PeteMc said: Just curious if this has been resolved yet. It's not the "official" way, more of an easter egg; but yes, you can: create a random temporary vector object, shape, it doesn't matter select the Artistic Text tool click on the shape's stroke to convert that object to a Text Path on the right-hand side of the context toolbar, you'll see the Text Frame button click it to open the Text Frame panel put it wherever you like and go to View > Studio Presets > Add Preset to save it, so that you don't have to repeat steps 1 to 5 each time you want to open it voilà Seneca 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 48 minutes ago, loukash said: It's not the "official" way, more of an easter egg; but yes, you can: Yes, until that bug is fixed... 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...
PeteMc Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 So basically the answer is no. Wow, makes me wonder when something that simple is overlooked..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 10 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Yes, until that bug is fixed... *speaks in a distorted megaphone voice* This is the Central Affinitizer. It is my responsibility to enforce that all panels that haven't been approved for your application yet will remain non-functional. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary application activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to The Kernel Panic (or affect your partners’ credit rating). (A bonus "like" to the first user who can precisely identify where this paraphrase is coming from. ) 8 hours ago, PeteMc said: So basically the answer is no. No, basically the answer was actually "yes, you can". 8 hours ago, PeteMc said: something that simple is overlooked I don't think it's "overlooked", I'd assume it's literally "by design". (Apart from the "bug", that is.) Designer is primarily a vector drawing app. If you need more typographical functionality, you can extend Designer by buying Publisher. Then you can simply switch back and forth on the fly via File > Edit In Publisher and File > Edit In Designer (and Photo, if you have it as well). Or open any Affinity document in Publisher and switch seamlessly between its three "Studio Link" personae. In other words, this is Serif's business model. In other other words, therein lies the true power of the Affinity suite and its universal document file format. walt.farrell 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 16 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Yes, until that bug is fixed... Or they decide that AD (& maybe AP as well) should have a Text Frame panel that can be displayed in the normal way from the View > Studio menu, & the bug is that it is not there? 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...
walt.farrell Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 1 hour ago, R C-R said: Or they decide that AD (& maybe AP as well) should have a Text Frame panel that can be displayed in the normal way from the View > Studio menu, & the bug is that it is not there? Possibly. But so far they have only said that the Text Frame icon should not be present in the Context Toolbar in Designer or Photo, and logged that it is incorrectly present and should be removed (as I remember and understand that thread). No one knows what the Developers will decide to do, of course 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...
R C-R Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: No one knows what the Developers will decide to do, of course True, but I think that if a lot of users have learned to exploit the bug the devs risk angering them if it is fixed. 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...
walt.farrell Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 19 hours ago, loukash said: on the right-hand side of the context toolbar, you'll see the Text Frame button click it to open the Text Frame panel By the way, that doesn't seem to work on Windows: In Photo, the Text Frame button does not appear. In Designer, the Text Frame button appears but does nothing when pushed. 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...
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