gnacca Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Hello everyone, I'm posting about something that confuse me in Affinity Designer. On almost every graphic software you can assign a fill color o stroke color to a text box.AD can do it too,... but in very odd way. If you create a text on path with "Artistic Text tool" the button to open the panel (or studio) "Text Frame" is visible in the option text bar (see attachment). But this button is not available if you use "Text Frame tool" o "Artistic Text tool" without a text on path. If you close the Text Frame studio panel by mistake and previously used it, all new text boxes will come with last colors used (see second attachment) and the only way to adjust it is to create a new text on path to reopen the option panel. Is that a bug? thanks. Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Nice catch, I am not sure that anything is wrong. Just weird. It probably is a bug but I think this will be useful. Note that you can leave the Panel open and then use it when ever. I even added it to a Studio Preset. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 I believe it's a known bug. The control to bring up the Text Frame panel should not be present in Designer, but it is. I think that happens only on Mac. Callum 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 See the official answer here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/130921-text-frame-panel/&do=findComment&comment=720232 walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnacca Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 21 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I believe it's a known bug. The control to bring up the Text Frame panel should not be present in Designer, but it is. I think that happens only on Mac. It's just as you said, Walt. 7 hours ago, GarryP said: See the official answer here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/130921-text-frame-panel/&do=findComment&comment=720232 Thank you for this information. That's too bad, I think a basic control for fill/stroke in text boxes should be available in this kind of software. I hope they'll place it officially one day. Thank you both for your time. 👋😊 walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnacca Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 On 11/25/2021 at 7:29 PM, Old Bruce said: Note that you can leave the Panel open and then use it when ever. I even added it to a Studio Preset. Done my studio preset, thanks. I hope not to see it disappeared in a future update. 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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