AmpedAndy Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 I know all about the follow path tool in art text. I'm aware of that, but that's pretty limited. What I'm talking about is creating text in the shape of something such as a circle, square, trapezoid or really any other irregular shape. I created the attached graphic using A.P., which took a remarkable number of steps for what should seem to be a relatively simple task. 1. Create text (oh ya, it drives me crazy that I can't select the text color before creating the text! Every time I try to se the color before typing it reverts to black as soon as I type. Same is true in Design) 2. Adjust text spacing & size so that the words fill the box uniformly 3. Use mesh warp tool to manipulate shape (an awesome tool which I wish was part of design so I don't have to keep switching programs to do this type of work) 4. Let the disappointment settle since I don't have the world's steadiest hand, so there is some unintended warping of the characters as I used the warp tool, but I'm not going to spend 20 minutes getting this one small part of my graphic just right. One of the main disadvantages to this process is that it turns the text in a pixel element as soon as the warp is applied, so the text can't be manipulated after the fact. That causes a certain amount of trial and error to get the look you want. I usually copy anything that I'm about to manipulate so I can just delete what I don't like to save "undo" steps, and also can "redo" the manipulation later if I find the warped graphic shape doesn't work quite right in the design I'm working on in A.D. It just would be a whole lot easier if there were a process that I could do this while working on the actual design in A.D. without program switching. Is there something that I'm missing to make my life a little easier? Quote iMac 21.5" Mid 2011 2.5 GHz i5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 16, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2016 Hi AmpedAndy, This will become easier as soon as the Perspective and Mesh Warp distortion tools are implemented in Designer (vector based). Both are currently on our roadmap but there's no ETA yet. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmpedAndy Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 Good to see it's in the works! I love so much about the program. Keep up the good work! Quote iMac 21.5" Mid 2011 2.5 GHz i5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 (oh ya, it drives me crazy that I can't select the text color before creating the text! Every time I try to se the color before typing it reverts to black as soon as I type. Same is true in Design) This should be fixed in 1.5 beta 1. Thanks for the feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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