Changing font size of multiple elements in Affinity Publisher or Designer

[StanA]

In Adobe Illustrator one can select multiple groups of objects (text, shapes and other) and then simultaneously change the font size for all text objects within the selection.

How can I do that in Affinity Designer/Publisher?  When I select groups of objects that contain text and non-text under Menu (Text->Size) the options are greyed out.

 

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, StanA said:

and non-text under Menu (Text->Size) the options are greyed out.

That's probably fine - why change the font size for non-text objects. Why not just select text objects?

[Callum]

Unfortunately you will have to make sure you have only text objects selected when you try to do this.

On 1/3/2021 at 8:07 PM, StanA said:

In Adobe Illustrator one can select multiple groups of objects (text, shapes and other) and then simultaneously change the font size for all text objects within the selection.

How can I do that in Affinity Designer/Publisher?  When I select groups of objects that contain text and non-text under Menu (Text->Size) the options are greyed out.

 

 

[Joachim_L]

3 minutes ago, Callum said:

Unfortunately you will have to make sure you have only text objects selected when you try to do this.

Fortunately upcoming version 1.9x allows you to do this easily with "Select Object ...".

[carl123]

Is this on a MAC?

They are not greyed out and they work under Windows.

 

[lepr]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

Is this on a MAC?

You mean a Mac? 😀

Your example works on a Mac.

Selection is non-container objects only: the text bigger/smaller commands are available and effective.

Selection is container (Group, Layer, Compound) objects only (Artboard is a type of container but see below): the commands are unavailable.

Selection is Artboards only: the commands are available but they do not affect members of the Artboards.

Selection is a mix of container and non-container objects: the commands are available but they do not affect members of the container objects.

 

Edited January 5, 2021 by anon2

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[StanA]

I had a problem going into a similar direction when trying to change the language for text objects within a group. If I chose a group (with text objects inside it) and change the language in the paragraph panel that change only applies to the group itself, not the text objects inside of it. I'm not sure why it would make sense to have an attribute such as language to be assigned to a group, but not the objects inside of it, effectively not changing the property for any of the text objects (they still have the previous language selected). It would be great to have an option to have changes applied to a group (such as text size) propagate to all of it's elements. 

Selecting each element from the layers panel I find is not a good solution for complicated graphs, such as flow diagrams, etc. It forces you to give a name to each element so you can identify them, could be very cumbersome.

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