Imported text in Affinity Designer

[sportyguy209]

Hello:

I'm using the Mac desktop version of Affinity Designer on a Mac.

I keep trying to import documents into Affinity Designer while maintaining editable text paths. The original documents have been created in AI and saved with the text fully editable. On import, I've tried all the various import options with the same results. The formats I've tried have been eps, pdf, and ai. A line of text imports correctly. But, text on paths imports as individual characters. Is there a way to import text on a path so it's fully editable?

TIA

[v_kyr]

I don't think it supports this at all for other third party vector file formats. - BTW, it also can't interpret and doesn't parse the SVG "textPath" command, so that's also no option here.

A small SVG example ...

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" 
  "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg width="12cm" height="3.6cm" viewBox="0 0 1000 300" version="1.1"
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
     xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <defs>
    <path id="MyPath"
          d="M 100 200 
             C 200 100 300   0 400 100
             C 500 200 600 300 700 200
             C 800 100 900 100 900 100" />
  </defs>
  <desc>Example - simple text on a path</desc>

  <use xlink:href="#MyPath" fill="none" stroke="red"  />
  <text font-family="Verdana" font-size="42.5" fill="blue" >
    <textPath xlink:href="#MyPath">
      We go up, then we go down, then up again
    </textPath>
  </text>

</svg>

• textpath.svg

... which at least every webbrowser engine usually should be able to showup.

 

 

[sportyguy209]

Thanks for your reply. That must be the answer, that AD just doesn't support this feature.

That's too bad, because it would be nice if it did. Consider this a feature request. 🙂

Peter

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, sportyguy209 said:

Consider this a feature request.

You need to post feature requests in one of the appropriate forums, such as Feedback for Affinity Designer on Desktop.

[sportyguy209]

Hello Walt:

Ok, will do.

Thanks,

Peter