MPrimavera Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Hello everyone, I have been battling with this issue for quite some time now and have scoured the Forum but did not find my answer. Attached is a chart I am working on in Affinity Designer, (I have eight different charts) the text in the chart are in Text Frames and what I need to do is scale this graphic along with resizing the text. A way around this I found was convert the text to Curves, unfortunately I may still need to change font sizes when it is resized. Another idea I had was to convert the text to Artistic Text, but can't find how to do this. Thanks everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted March 18, 2022 Staff Share Posted March 18, 2022 Hi @MPrimavera welcome to the forums, As far as i'm aware there is no direct method to convert a Text Frame to Artistic text, however the below thread does suggest some ways this can be achieved. There is an additional handle at the bottom right hand corner of text frames which allows for re-scaling the size of text but this requires that the text frames are selected only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPrimavera Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 Thanks NathanC, I have found there is no conversion as I had mentioned. Since I need to resize the entire chart I think my only option is to covert text to curves so that the text resizes with the entire chart. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Have you tried adding all of the elements to a Group and then resizing the Group? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPrimavera Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, GarryP said: Have you tried adding all of the elements to a Group and then resizing the Group? 👍 You guys got me thinking and I figured it out! I read a post on the Forum about this secondary handle which I have pointed to with the red arrow. The dumb part is I just noticed the handle after all this time and it resizes the text along with all other elements. Oh and make sure to turn on Scale with Object in the Stroke Panel Edited March 18, 2022 by MPrimavera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Unfortunately I can’t view your screenshot so I can’t see the results. Can you try attaching it again, possibly in a different way than you did last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPrimavera Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 1 minute ago, GarryP said: Unfortunately I can’t view your screenshot so I can’t see the results. Can you try attaching it again, possibly in a different way than you did last time. Inserting screen cap using alternate method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Try using the other bottom-right handle, just up-left from the one you are pointing to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPrimavera Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 6 minutes ago, GarryP said: Try using the other bottom-right handle, just up-left from the one you are pointing to. The one I am pointing to is the only one that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 What do you mean by “works”? Have you got things working the way you want them now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPrimavera Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, GarryP said: What do you mean by “works”? Have you got things working the way you want them now? yes, I had posted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Posted it where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GarryP Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Ah, I see, you edited a previous post but didn’t mention that as part of the discussion so I didn’t notice that you had changed something. Doing that makes it difficult for people who are following the discussion, both at the time and later, as the thread gets ‘disjointed’ by having the solution before the discussion which may have led to it. At least you are sorted now and can carry on your work, which is the main thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPrimavera Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 My apologies Garry, while I was typing out all the different things I have tried I had an idea so I had to edit the post. Always good to learn new tricks and I thank you for your involvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 No harm done. If you are going to be resizing things a lot, especially things which have internal relations, then you might want to look at the Constraints functionality as that has some nice features which you might like to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPrimavera Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 Ah, I'll check that out, thanks for the info. I use a combination of Guides and the Transform function for page layouts, the Snapping is very helpful too. Once the paper is published I'll provide a link 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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