Albo Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 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 iMac mid-2017 3,6 Ghz / 32G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Line spacing is normally automatic but can be overridden see image below for where to do that... Quote iMac 27" 2019 Ventura 13.6, iMac 27" Late 2013 running Catalina 10.15.7 - Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albo Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 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 iMac mid-2017 3,6 Ghz / 32G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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, 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 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albo Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 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 iMac mid-2017 3,6 Ghz / 32G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent32 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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 16.5 + 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 2.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albo Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 Sorry for my crappy explanation. I really meant spacing in the vertical meaning of the word. Not justify. Quote iMac mid-2017 3,6 Ghz / 32G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 @AlboWhat font is that? The vertical metrics do seem to be too tight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent32 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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 16.5 + 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 2.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent32 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 @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 16.5 + 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 2.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albo Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 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. kenmcd and walt.farrell 2 Quote iMac mid-2017 3,6 Ghz / 32G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent32 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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 16.5 + 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 2.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albo Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 Indeed. Thank you all. Quote iMac mid-2017 3,6 Ghz / 32G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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