snizl Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Affinity Designer on Mac: When pasting text from a word document into a text field in affinity designer, it does keep most of the formatting. However, when line breaks in the word document are not denoted by "enter", but instead by the size of the page, they are seen in affinity as an infinitely long line and will be pasted as such. Is there any way to paste text into a text field, in such a way that either, the original formatting is completely kept, or such that the horizontal size of the textfield is respected, and not just extended into infinity? Or is the easiest way to achieve this for me, by manually assigning line breaks by "enter" in the original file? Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 The text should wrap within the text frame (if you are using frame text), unless you've set the No Break attribute in the (I think) Character panel. 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...
Old Bruce Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 hour ago, snizl said: However, when line breaks in the word document are not denoted by "enter", but instead by the size of the page, they are seen in affinity as an infinitely long line and will be pasted as such. Is there any way to paste text into a text field, in such a way that either, the original formatting is completely kept, or such that the horizontal size of the textfield is respected, and not just extended into infinity? Or is the easiest way to achieve this for me, by manually assigning line breaks by "enter" in the original file? Use the Frame Text tool to draw the frame, don't use the Art Text tool to put a text caret on the page. Text Frame is a T and Art Text is an A Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | 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...
snizl Posted February 16, 2022 Author Share Posted February 16, 2022 15 hours ago, Old Bruce said: Use the Frame Text tool to draw the frame, don't use the Art Text tool to put a text caret on the page. Text Frame is a T and Art Text is an A It appears that both are on the same hotkey for me, and which one gets selected needs to be chosen on the left hand panel. But choosing text frame indeed works for me. Thanks! I really appreciate the support on this forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespired Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Easy. Paste in Adobe Illustrator first. All Enters will be line breaks. Then copy that object and paste in Affinity Designer. All line breaks will be line breaks. O why use Affinity Designer if you have Adobe Illustrator... right... Works with Microsoft Outlook as well. Copy your text. Open new email. Use Paste -> keep text only. Copy. Create a Text box. Place cursor in text box. Paste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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