gionaguidi Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Hi, may i ask you a clarification guys? With the latest releases of Affinity Photo and Designer on iPad you have introduced a different behavior for Apple Pencil. I can now see the icon of the pencil down to the bottom of the screen with all the options this pencil mode has to offer. Unfortunately, when it comes to Text, this is a bit confusing to me. I use my pencil to create and place a text layer but then i can't figure out how to switch to "full size" keyboard. I can see the small keyboard option but, every time, i have to mess around with tapping and clicking to get the full keyboard back. What is the right path ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllAppsUser Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 The behaviour of the app here is really irritating (to me). It's not possible to use scribble (unless someone knows better) in the text frame itself. Therefore, I don't understand the point of not being able to access the full keyboard when the pen has been involved in placing the text frame. The only method I've found that allows me to switch from the small keyboard UI to the full keyboard is this: With the text still selected and the Pencil UI showing Knock the app into the background (off screen) Then call it back to the foreground again (I've found this activates the full keyboard) Irritating to say the least. If anyone else knows otherwise, I'll be happy to be corrected and discover there's a better way. -------------------------- The Pencil is still a relatively new feature tbh, but at some point someone will understand that humans don't "only use the pen" vs "only use the full keyboard", but they switch from one ot the other and back again. Serif are interfacing with iOS here, so I suspect the answer is: it is what it is until Apple move it forward. Jpburns 1 Quote - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Words are crude implements, difficult to get perfect, easy to get tied in knots with, and often - usually - misunderstood, which is why 'tolarence' is the best word of all. The word "professional" fits us all - amateur, semi-pro, beginner, advanced, middle, beyond it all, and on....., because professionals are tolerant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpburns Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 If they were really using the iPad interface, they’d let us “pinch-scale” the keyboard ourselves. I hate the disappearing keyboard. I had to come here to figure out how to restore the big keyboard. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonofwitz Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 This was an issue on the previous v1 ipad apps for me as well. I can't stand it. I can't use that keyboard to type area text with. It doesn't spread into Full Keyboard as it is supposed to in iPad OS. Frustrating. Please fix! I just spent ten minutes trying to get the full keyboard and couldn't do it. Totally unpredictable. It was giving me the full keyboard earlier. Nothing different, but nothing I do now can bring it back. Maybe this is a Stage Manager bug. I just turned off SM before posting this and what do you know, I've got the full keyboard. It may be that it assumes you are using an external keyboard and trackpad in Stage Manager mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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