ericosmosNEW Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 When you add a thick outline to text or shapes the actual curve path is still right in the middle of that line. So here is my question: Is there a way to make the outer edge of an outline the actual curve path? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G13RL Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 (edited) You can adjust the stroke position using "Align" in the "Stroke" tab of the studio. In some cases you may need to adjust "Miter" to get sharp corners. EDIT: I just realized that the question was for the iPad version, I answered for the desktop version so I don't know if my answer will be useful, sorry! Edited August 21, 2021 by G13RL Version error Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 1 hour ago, G13RL said: EDIT: I just realized that the question was for the iPad version, I answered for the desktop version so I don't know if my answer will be useful, sorry! Yes, it’s pretty much the same in the iPad version of Designer. G13RL 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G13RL Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 @Alfred, thank you for the precision and the details. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericosmosNEW Posted August 21, 2021 Author Share Posted August 21, 2021 Ah, yes. Sure, I know this option. My problem is the following. I want to just the outline of a font (no fill), so the inside is fully transparent. And then I want to give that outline an outline with another color. Problem is, with the above tool I never get the path for the inside and the outside of the stroke. I can’t use the outline fx because it always rasterizes the font on PDF export. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 10 minutes ago, ericosmosNEW said: I want to just the outline of a font (no fill), so the inside is fully transparent. And then I want to give that outline an outline with another color. Duplicate the object and change the colour and alignment of the stroke on the new copy. uneMule 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericosmosNEW Posted August 21, 2021 Author Share Posted August 21, 2021 Yes, with 3 layers I can make it work. Hoped for a simpler solution. But at least a workaround. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 On 8/21/2021 at 7:48 PM, ericosmosNEW said: Yes, with 3 layers I can make it work. Hoped for a simpler solution. But at least a workaround. Thanks! Why three layers? The example in my previous post uses two: one with the stroke aligned to the inside and the other with the stroke aligned to the outside. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericosmosNEW Posted August 26, 2021 Author Share Posted August 26, 2021 Because I want the text to be an outline with an outer AND inner outline. Your example is a text as outline with an addidional outer or inner outline (depends how you look at it), I want BOTH. Hope that makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 32 minutes ago, ericosmosNEW said: Because I want the text to be an outline with an outer AND inner outline. That wasn’t clear from your earlier description! You wrote: On 8/21/2021 at 6:45 PM, ericosmosNEW said: I want to just the outline of a font (no fill), so the inside is fully transparent. And then I want to give that outline an outline with another color. In other words, one colour for the original outline and another colour for the second outline. It seems that you actually want three colours (which, as you observed, requires three layers). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericosmosNEW Posted August 26, 2021 Author Share Posted August 26, 2021 Well, kind of... But I want the inner and the outer outline to be the same color and just the original outline to be a different color as if it was a font designed as an outline which then gets an outline 😄 Like so: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Thanks for the example! In that case, either ‘Expand Stroke’ and apply a stroke to the result or (more flexible and easily edited) use the Appearance Studio to add the second stroke. DM1 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 It seems Appearance Studio does not allow to add multiple strokes for text layers. The symbol to add fill/stroke is greyed out. If i convert to curves, i found no way to save an appearance (like a style) and apply it to multiple objects. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 On 8/26/2021 at 4:42 PM, ericosmosNEW said: Well, kind of... But I want the inner and the outer outline to be the same color and just the original outline to be a different color as if it was a font designed as an outline which then gets an outline 😄 Like so: Layer FX Outline could be an option. But this might lead to rasterization when exporting. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericosmosNEW Posted August 29, 2021 Author Share Posted August 29, 2021 5 hours ago, NotMyFault said: Layer FX Outline could be an option. But this might lead to rasterization when exporting. This definitely leads to rasterization. Therefore no option! I noticed the greyedout option for additional stroke in the appearance studio as well. Hmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted August 31, 2021 Staff Share Posted August 31, 2021 On 8/29/2021 at 4:05 PM, NotMyFault said: It seems Appearance Studio does not allow to add multiple strokes for text layers. The symbol to add fill/stroke is greyed out. This is logged with our developers, so I'll be sure to 'bump' this report with your post now ericosmosNEW 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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