AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 20, 2023 Posted April 20, 2023 Hi Affinitylovers! I’m a little confused about the ‘text on path’ features. The help section doesn’t solve my question. I have imported an spiral from Vectorstyler, and, when putting the cursor on the line the text goes backwards? Question two - how to get the text on outside of the spiral? Publisher only allow me to write on the inside of the spiral… iPad Pro 12.9 - Publisher 2.10 beta 1769… Quote Happy guy playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typographic, photographing, Color & forms, AND, old Synthesizers from the 1980-1990’s… Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015 - also an Lenovo iMac i7 clone with 24” touch screen and Windows 10…
NotMyFault Posted April 20, 2023 Posted April 20, 2023 You get 2 pairs of handles. One for the upper side, one for the lower / reverse side. It is quite tricky to get text into the correct section. You may start with simpler shapes like circle and practice until you get used to it. Try to keep both sides and handles clearly separated and non-overlapping. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
NotMyFault Posted April 20, 2023 Posted April 20, 2023 To be honest, editing text on a spiral clearly shows the limits (bugs) in Affinity apps. No fun at all. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
NotMyFault Posted April 20, 2023 Posted April 20, 2023 The simples way is to use the node tool, and reverse direction. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
Komatös Posted April 21, 2023 Posted April 21, 2023 9 hours ago, NotMyFault said: The simples way is to use the node tool, and reverse direction. Unfortunately, swapping the direction only causes the text to start from the inner point. Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194) Affinity Suite V 2.6.1 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF I already had a halo, but it didn't suit me!
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 21, 2023 Author Posted April 21, 2023 10 hours ago, NotMyFault said: To be honest, editing text on a spiral clearly shows the limits (bugs) in Affinity apps. No fun at all. Is it a “bug” that my example draw the text backwards? As I see, the solution is to flip the spiral vertical, but, then the text start at bottom, not on top that was my goal… The same goes for text on outside of the spiral - a bug, but possible by design from Serif Labs… Quote Happy guy playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typographic, photographing, Color & forms, AND, old Synthesizers from the 1980-1990’s… Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015 - also an Lenovo iMac i7 clone with 24” touch screen and Windows 10…
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 21, 2023 Author Posted April 21, 2023 50 minutes ago, Komatös said: Unfortunately, swapping the direction only causes the text to start from the inner point. Summarize - ‘Text on Path’ is rather limited in the Affinity Suite when complex forms/lines are involved… Quote Happy guy playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typographic, photographing, Color & forms, AND, old Synthesizers from the 1980-1990’s… Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015 - also an Lenovo iMac i7 clone with 24” touch screen and Windows 10…
Hangman Posted April 21, 2023 Posted April 21, 2023 This should work without any issues... Text on a Spiral.mp4 Paul Mudditt and AffinityMakesMeWonder 2 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 21, 2023 Author Posted April 21, 2023 17 minutes ago, Hangman said: This should work without any issues... Text on a Spiral.mp4 946.33 kB · 0 downloads WTF? How did you import that spiral? Is from Vectorstyler or Inkscape? Is it the spiral attribute that different between my spiral and yours? Confused… Thanks for letting me discover that it possible with text on the outside of a spiral, and, the test not backwards… Quote Happy guy playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typographic, photographing, Color & forms, AND, old Synthesizers from the 1980-1990’s… Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015 - also an Lenovo iMac i7 clone with 24” touch screen and Windows 10…
Hangman Posted April 21, 2023 Posted April 21, 2023 I simply drew the spiral in Affinity Designer... I can't see any reason why one imported from Vectorstyler or Inkscape should be any different but if you want to upload your Vectorstyler or Inkscape created spiral we can take a look to see what might be going on... Spiral Text.mp4 thomaso and Paul Mudditt 2 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 21, 2023 Author Posted April 21, 2023 40 minutes ago, Hangman said: I simply drew the spiral in Affinity Designer... I can't see any reason why one imported from Vectorstyler or Inkscape should be any different but if you want to upload your Vectorstyler or Inkscape created spiral we can take a look to see what might be going on... Spiral Text.mp4 4.15 MB · 0 downloads Great way of making the Spiral! Here's the Spiral that goes texting backwards... Have a nice day! Spiral 3 varv.afpub Quote Happy guy playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typographic, photographing, Color & forms, AND, old Synthesizers from the 1980-1990’s… Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015 - also an Lenovo iMac i7 clone with 24” touch screen and Windows 10…
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 21, 2023 Author Posted April 21, 2023 This attached Spiral is from Inkscape and former above is from Vectorstyler - this spiral have the text on the outside of the spiral and the text forward, and not backwards as the spiral from Vectorstyler... Strange... Spiral 4 varv.afpub Quote Happy guy playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typographic, photographing, Color & forms, AND, old Synthesizers from the 1980-1990’s… Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015 - also an Lenovo iMac i7 clone with 24” touch screen and Windows 10…
Paul Mudditt Posted April 21, 2023 Posted April 21, 2023 I think someone uploaded spirals.afassets this to the Resources section although I can't find it now. EDIT: Link to forums Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.3 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18.3 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Mud’s Macros Library:- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/
Komatös Posted April 21, 2023 Posted April 21, 2023 7 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said: I think someone uploaded this to the Resources section although I can't find it now. EDIT: Found the link Spirals.afassets 52 kB · 0 down Thank you, but that does not solve the real problem. Paul Mudditt 1 Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194) Affinity Suite V 2.6.1 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF I already had a halo, but it didn't suit me!
Hangman Posted April 21, 2023 Posted April 21, 2023 2 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said: Here's the Spiral that goes texting backwards... I think the issue with the VectorStyle spiral is that it's orientation is backwards though you can correct it and subsequently the text direction by doing the following... Spiral.mp4 AffinityMakesMeWonder, Komatös and Paul Mudditt 2 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
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