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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

With the Text Tool you want to use active, click in the font size box on the Context Toolbar and type 3 in and you'll have it.

There's also a Preference you may want to change:

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Posted
6 minutes ago, filoplume said:

I need to make "Seasonal Mass Parts" in a three inch font for a poster (I assume).

 

Do you need the letters to be three inches or the font size to be three inches. There is a difference I am not being a pedant.

Font size of three inches would be 3 times 72 points.

The letters being 3 inches high means you have to use the Art Text Tool and type "Season....arts" and then use the move tool to select that Art Text layer and use the transform panel to make the Art Text layer three inches high.

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Posted

My wife asked for the font for our church to be three inches tall. If I get any fancier I will no doubt suffer the consequences lol!

I have no idea what they are going to do with it.  Font should just be black.  I found some free ones with snow flakes on them and others but I better not push it.

I think a drop shadow or something would be nice but then again... 🙂

Thanks!

-paulw

 

Posted

I'll send you some Positive Waves.

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Posted

Thanks! 🙂

I can do much "fancier" stuff but I don't think it would be appreciated.  Like how about a document with an image behind the text or seasonal trees for the fonts,.....

Nah!  That would be beyond the call of duty! lol!

Posted
6 minutes ago, filoplume said:

My wife asked for the font for our church to be three inches tall.

Less than ideal for baptisms, I imagine!

I’ll see myself out. :$

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Posted
21 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

With the Text Tool you want to use active, click in the font size box on the Context Toolbar and type 3 in and you'll have it.

There's also a Preference you may want to change:

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Hi Walt!

Where is the preferences window in AD or AP?

Doh!  I did not think of typing in "3 in"!!

-paulw

Posted
5 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Less than ideal for baptisms, I imagine!

I’ll see myself out. :$

I have no idea what they are going to do with this.  I also did a website for my parish and no one took a second to check it out.  I guess they are happy with their ugly google site website!

Thanks

Posted
6 minutes ago, filoplume said:

Where is the preferences window in AD or AP?

If you're using Windows, it's in the Edit menu, then Preferences, or by default Ctrl+, as the keyboard shortcut.

On Mac, it's somewhere else. The application Help should tell you where.

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Posted
1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

On Mac, it's somewhere else.

It is on the second from the left menu, the one labeled with the application name. This is the typical location for the Preferences menu item on Macs, & the default Affinity keyboard shortcut for it (CMD + comma) is the same as the one used by most Mac apps.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Alfred said:

Less than ideal for baptisms, I imagine!

Oh I see what you did there. 

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Posted
10 hours ago, filoplume said:

I have no idea what they are going to do with this.  I also did a website for my parish and no one took a second to check it out.  I guess they are happy with their ugly google site website!

Thanks

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Posted
30 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

This is a puzzle to me...

 

Set the following word: My

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Posted
16 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Set the following word: My

Are you maybe referring to descenders like in the lower case "y" or something else? I confess both what the puzzle is & your reply to it are is a bit too cryptic for me this early in the day for me.

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Posted
30 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Are you maybe referring to descenders like in the lower case "y" or something else? I confess both what the puzzle is & your reply to it are is a bit too cryptic for me this early in the day for me.

Here are 5 different fonts all at 216 points (3 inches)  on an orange 3 inch tall rectangle. I included guides to show the baselines. Demonstration purposes only to show that a 3 inch font is not necessarily 3 inches.

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Posted (edited)
22 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Demonstration purposes only to show that a 3 inch font is not necessarily 3 inches.

Thanks for the demo, but I think we already knew that thanks to your earlier 'not a pedant' remark. 😄

Edited by R C-R
fixed typo (thanks Alfred!)

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Posted
1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

This is a puzzle to me...

What is it that puzzles you, Dex? :/

Text with a cap height of 12 px typically has a font size of 16 px or more, to accommodate ascenders and descenders and to provide a little extra space so that the descenders on one line of text won’t collide with the ascenders on the next.

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Posted

Just the visuals, if you have text size set at 3in but it isn't actually 3in it comes out at 2.3in regardless of the descenders etc.

To have a real world 3in text you have to make it 3.779 (for that particular font)

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Posted
5 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Just the visuals, if you have text size set at 3in but it isn't actually 3in it comes out at 2.3in regardless of the descenders etc.

The puzzle is easily resolved if you consider that font size & text size are not the same thing.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

Here are 5 different fonts all at 216 points (3 inches)  on an orange 3 inch tall rectangle. I included guides to show the baselines. Demonstration purposes only to show that a 3 inch font is not necessarily 3 inches.

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Or...

Even different typefaces in the same text run are handled by a Macro a user created for CD...the red rectangles are each 3" tall (at this zoom level, the display is a little funky). Because of the differing ascender/descender heights, the text offsets. But, for myself, it's not a real-world usage.

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Maybe one day, AD et al might be able to have a scripting language...

I currently use this macro several times a year for series of signage, 10-12 or so signs each year. Yep, setting guidelines does work as a manual method. But back when I was doing side work for a sign shop, it was a "sanity saver."

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