Copy & Pasting Gradients

[boomeraudio]

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded to Affinity Designer 2 on macOS. With Affinity Designer 1, I was able to copy an element with a gradient fill on it and then paste the gradient using 'Paste Style' on a different element. (For example: text gradient copied, pasted to another text element.) 

In the past, it would just paste the gradient and not change the font. Now it's changing the font.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

- jc

[thomaso]

9 hours ago, boomeraudio said:

For example: text gradient copied, pasted to another text element.

Are you sure you copied a text object in V1?

To me in V1 it pastes the font + the gradient … which feels like an expected behaviour when pasting a text style since colour is just a text style attribute like font face or size etc. (To paste the gradient only you can copy a non-text object.)

[walt.farrell]

7 hours ago, thomaso said:

To me in V1 it pastes the font + the gradient … which feels like an expected behaviour when pasting a text style since colour is just a text style attribute like font face or size etc. (To paste the gradient only you can copy a non-text object.)

That's my experience from V1, too. Font is part of a text object's style there, too.

[Mark Freeman]

On 2/16/2023 at 12:46 PM, boomeraudio said:

Any ideas?

I had the same issue. If you want to copy the gradient from one block of text to the other, go to the color panel, then swatches, then gradients, select the text with the gradient then from the hamburger menu select add current fill to pallet. Then go from there… hope that helps.