Designer1 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Text on paths cannot be scaled proportionally. When the path is reduced, e.g. a circular path, the text becomes larger and when it is enlarged, the text becomes smaller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 You should see two handles on the lower right of the object's bounding box. The one that is not attached to the frame is the rescaling handle. Dragging that one will rescale the object and any text proportionately. Designer1 1 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 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 23 hours ago, walt.farrell said: You should see two handles on the lower right of the object's bounding box. The one that is not attached to the frame is the rescaling handle. Dragging that one will rescale the object and any text proportionately. However, this gives imprecise results. How can I set an exact value such as 10 cm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 54 minutes ago, Designer1 said: However, this gives imprecise results. How can I set an exact value such as 10 cm? Other than watching the Transform panel while dragging the handle, I'm not sure. Good question. 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 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted February 1, 2023 Staff Share Posted February 1, 2023 transform panel, lock the width and height and type a value in. Sets the bounding box values Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 8 minutes ago, Pauls said: transform panel, lock the width and height and type a value in. Sets the bounding box values But that won't scale the Path Text, too, will it? At least it didn't seem to when I tried. 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 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 3 hours ago, Pauls said: transform panel, lock the width and height and type a value in. Sets the bounding box values This does not work! The text on the path cannot be scaled by entering exact values, e.g. 10 cm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRAFKOM Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 You have to click on this seemingly inactive button, and from now on you can enter in the transformation panel - 10cm and the text on the path will increase proportionally. walt.farrell, Old Bruce and Designer1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Thanks for reminding me of that feature @GRAFKOM. I saw it when I first upgraded and thought "This will be so useful." And then I promptly forgot about it, wish I remembered about it a couple of days ago. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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