filoplume Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 HI, I need to make "Seasonal Mass Parts" in a three inch font for a poster (I assume). How would I do that in Affinity Publisher or Designer? Thanks! -paulw Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 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: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Old Bruce Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 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. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
filoplume Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 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 Quote
Old Bruce Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 I'll send you some Positive Waves. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
filoplume Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 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! Quote
Alfred Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 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. firstdefence 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
filoplume Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 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: Hi Walt! Where is the preferences window in AD or AP? Doh! I did not think of typing in "3 in"!! -paulw Quote
filoplume Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 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 Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 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. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
R C-R Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 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. walt.farrell 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Old Bruce Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Alfred said: Less than ideal for baptisms, I imagine! Oh I see what you did there. Alfred 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
filoplume Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 When I save the document to PDF it is not the same size. I did not mess with the margins. =pw Quote
firstdefence Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 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 Great artists are rarely appreciated in their time 😉 Old Bruce 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
firstdefence Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 This is a puzzle to me... Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
Old Bruce Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 30 minutes ago, firstdefence said: This is a puzzle to me... Set the following word: My Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
R C-R Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 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. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
v_kyr Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 For the needed font size, use some converters to prove Affinity's internal conversions: https://everythingfonts.com/font/tools/units/converter https://everythingfonts.com/font/tools/units/px-to-inches https://everythingfonts.com/font/tools/units/px-to-pt etc. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Old Bruce Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 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. walt.farrell 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
R C-R Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 (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 November 18, 2021 by R C-R fixed typo (thanks Alfred!) Old Bruce 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Alfred Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 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. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
firstdefence Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 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) Alfred 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
R C-R Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 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. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
filoplume Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 >>The puzzle is easily resolved if you consider that font size & text size are not the same thing.<< I got ya! Thanks very much! -paulw Quote
MikeW Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 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. 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. 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." Quote
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