Auto resize a text box by his content

[Esperida]

Hello,

I am trying to make a deck of question cards from a base of an exel file with the questions and I would need the size of the box that contains the text of the answer to automatically adapt to the answer. (the black rectangle with the rounded edges in the image)

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Unfortunately, that function is not provided in the Affinity applications.

[Esperida]

Oh, too sad

thanks anyway

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Unfortunately, that function is not provided in the Affinity applications.

 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Esperida said:

I would need the size of the box that contains the text of the answer to automatically adapt to the answer. (the black rectangle with the rounded edges in the image)

There are two options:

• use an Artistic Text frame. This always resizes with its content.
Disadvantage: corresponding to its self-growing width it doesn't do line breaks. If the answer should flow across various lines you would need to type line breaks manually.

• Use a text Decoration style to create the black text background. This will auto-grow with the amount of text.
Disadvantage: no rounded corners.

[carl123]

Isn't this something Constraints could do?

[thomaso]

Constraints need object layers (not just characters within frames) + someone who moves or scales objects. The latter condition reminds me to pinned objects which can get moved by text content / while typing. (without using Constraints)

Nevertheless, a quite cumbersome workflow. And definitely doesn't work in an exported PDF, as the OP might possibly have in mind.

[Esperida]

Thanks Thomas ❤️

[vivala]

On 5/19/2022 at 11:04 AM, thomaso said:

Constraints need object layers (not just characters within frames) + someone who moves or scales objects. The latter condition reminds me to pinned objects which can get moved by text content / while typing. (without using Constraints)

 

Nevertheless, a quite cumbersome workflow. And definitely doesn't work in an exported PDF, as the OP might possibly have in mind.

 

How can I achieve this "Text inside the Rounded Rectangle and expanding it while typing?

Thank you, regards

[carl123]

6 hours ago, vivala said:

How can I achieve this "Text inside the Rounded Rectangle and expanding it while typing?

Here's a couple of threads that may be worthing reading...

 

 

 

 

[thomaso]

12 hours ago, vivala said:

How can I achieve this "Text inside the Rounded Rectangle and expanding it while typing?

I recommend to avoid a Pinning (or Constraints) solution but use @carl123's Paragraph Decoration instead. It is more flexible and compatible:

[vivala]

 

Thank you very much Sir!

Used it in combination with a high text frame, copying and pasting Artistic text into the frame, and I obtained what I was loooking for: a text frame that expands depending on content, useful for me for a Data merge based project.

Best regards Sir!