Albo Posted January 24, 2023 Posted January 24, 2023 Hello, I can't seem to find how to evenly space text in Affinity Photo I simply want to space evenly between the lines. Tried using the different text tab but nothing worked. Thanks. Quote Mac Studio M1
firstdefence Posted January 24, 2023 Posted January 24, 2023 Line spacing is normally automatic but can be overridden see image below for where to do that... Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
Albo Posted January 24, 2023 Author Posted January 24, 2023 Thank you. I did try it before but it didn't seem to work. Opened my file again and it works. As they say...human error. firstdefence 1 Quote Mac Studio M1
GarryP Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 Can anyone tell me what the original problem is? I opened the image in Designer and dragged guides to the baseline of each text line (to the lowest points of the lower-case ‘t’s, as much as I could visually) and the space between the baselines, after a quick manual calculation, is the same 52 pixels (give or take a pixel which can be accounted for by various things like rounding and antialiasing). It looks fine to me, so am I missing something about the original problem? Quote
walt.farrell Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 3 hours ago, GarryP said: Can anyone tell me what the original problem is? It looks good to me, too, though I didn't try measuring it. However, the descender of the "p" in line 2 and the "t" in line 3 nearly collide. So I think it needs a bit more leading. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
GarryP Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 13 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: However, the descender of the "p" in line 2 and the "t" in line 3 nearly collide. So I think it needs a bit more leading. The original seems fine to me, without knowing where the text will be used, as real handwriting can often overlap; it’s down to personal taste of course. Quote
Albo Posted January 25, 2023 Author Posted January 25, 2023 It was simply a spacing issue between the lines. I wanted more space between each line. The original image is tight and I could not make more spacing using the line spacing tab. After quitting the app I tried again and it worked. This being said it was most probably a mistake I was making and not an app issue. Quote Mac Studio M1
GarryP Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 Ah, from your original post it sounded to me like the problem was that you couldn’t get evenly-spaced lines of text, even though they were evenly-spaced. Oh well, as long as it’s sorted. Quote
laurent32 Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 Maybe @Albo meant justify ? Quote MacBook Pro 16 pouces (3456 × 2234), 2021 / Apple M1 Pro / 16 Go / macOS Ventura Version 13.4.1 (22F82) + 31,5 pouces (2560 × 1440) + 27 pouces (1080 × 1920) + iPad (8th generation) / iPadOS 17.2 + Apple Pencil + … Macmini6,2 Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 Go / macOS Catalina version 10.15.7 (19H2026) MacBookAir6,2 Intel Core i5 double cœur 4 Go / macOS Big Sur version 11.7.7 (20G1345) Licence Universelle Affinity V2 updated to 2.3.0
Albo Posted January 25, 2023 Author Posted January 25, 2023 Sorry for my crappy explanation. I really meant spacing in the vertical meaning of the word. Not justify. Quote Mac Studio M1
kenmcd Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 @AlboWhat font is that? The vertical metrics do seem to be too tight. Quote
laurent32 Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 You mean evenly distributed in the black box ? Quote MacBook Pro 16 pouces (3456 × 2234), 2021 / Apple M1 Pro / 16 Go / macOS Ventura Version 13.4.1 (22F82) + 31,5 pouces (2560 × 1440) + 27 pouces (1080 × 1920) + iPad (8th generation) / iPadOS 17.2 + Apple Pencil + … Macmini6,2 Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 Go / macOS Catalina version 10.15.7 (19H2026) MacBookAir6,2 Intel Core i5 double cœur 4 Go / macOS Big Sur version 11.7.7 (20G1345) Licence Universelle Affinity V2 updated to 2.3.0
kenmcd Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 1 minute ago, laurent32 said: You mean evenly distributed in the black box ? No. The default line spacing is determined by the ascender/descender settings inside the font. With a plain-vanilla text font you generally want those to add up to approx. 120%. But decorative fonts can be much more. As @walt.farrellmentions above the descender and ascender are almost touching (not good) and it just looks tight. And what handwriting would be that tight? The font needs some tweaking. walt.farrell 1 Quote
laurent32 Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 @kenmcd, i understand @walt.farrell's post and I agree for a little more leading… but not that much… I'm just trying to understand the question and I'm saying that @Albo might just want to evenly space (distribute) the line in the black box ? kenmcd 1 Quote MacBook Pro 16 pouces (3456 × 2234), 2021 / Apple M1 Pro / 16 Go / macOS Ventura Version 13.4.1 (22F82) + 31,5 pouces (2560 × 1440) + 27 pouces (1080 × 1920) + iPad (8th generation) / iPadOS 17.2 + Apple Pencil + … Macmini6,2 Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 Go / macOS Catalina version 10.15.7 (19H2026) MacBookAir6,2 Intel Core i5 double cœur 4 Go / macOS Big Sur version 11.7.7 (20G1345) Licence Universelle Affinity V2 updated to 2.3.0
Albo Posted January 25, 2023 Author Posted January 25, 2023 Black box is simply so I can see the font. I don't use the black box. Font: Rollerscript. And yes I did tweak it so they don't touch as noted by @walt.farrell. walt.farrell and kenmcd 2 Quote Mac Studio M1
laurent32 Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 OK, I guess all is fine then 👍 Quote MacBook Pro 16 pouces (3456 × 2234), 2021 / Apple M1 Pro / 16 Go / macOS Ventura Version 13.4.1 (22F82) + 31,5 pouces (2560 × 1440) + 27 pouces (1080 × 1920) + iPad (8th generation) / iPadOS 17.2 + Apple Pencil + … Macmini6,2 Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 Go / macOS Catalina version 10.15.7 (19H2026) MacBookAir6,2 Intel Core i5 double cœur 4 Go / macOS Big Sur version 11.7.7 (20G1345) Licence Universelle Affinity V2 updated to 2.3.0
Albo Posted January 25, 2023 Author Posted January 25, 2023 Indeed. Thank you all. Quote Mac Studio M1
kenmcd Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 31 minutes ago, Albo said: Font: Rollerscript. Odd metrics in that font. The Typo metrics (used by Affinity and many other apps) add up to exactly 1,000. So basically the default line spacing is 100%. The Mac and Win metrics both add up to a little over 150%. Which makes more sense for a handwriting font. So odd settings in that font explains your issue. And as you have found setting a fixed leading is the solution. Quote
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