Scaling Text on Path

[jeff43222]

I just put together a design and wanted to scale the whole thing down a bit. So I did a Select All and then typed in the new size in the Transform panel. Everything transformed just how I wanted it to except the text I had on a path, which stayed the same size. Text not on a path scaled down with all of the other elements.

As far as I can tell, the only way to scale text on a path is to use the scale handle of the path object. I hope I'm wrong, but apparently there is no way to include text on a path when scaling via the Transform panel. The workaround I wound up using was determining the percent decrease in scale for all the other elements and then applying that percentage to each text-on-path object. It worked, but it's not exactly convenient, especially since I do a lot of text on a path.

Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to add a setting somewhere for text on a path to scale with the object since the functionality is already in the software.

[R C-R]

20 minutes ago, jeff43222 said:

As far as I can tell, the only way to scale text on a path is to use the scale handle of the path object.

The version 2 Affinity apps have some new Scale Override options in the Transform panel, one of which is to set Text frame contents to Scale with object. It seems to work on both text frames & path text if the W & H fields are linked (so the aspect ratio is locked).

[jeff43222]

I went back and tried again, changing nothing, it this time it worked. Maybe it was a glitch in the software. I already had the scale overrides set in the Transform panel.

Thanks for the pointer!