How do I make the stroke vanish after I use it as a text path?

[Wayne Burrows]

I am using a stroke as a path for my text. How do I get it to disappear so that only the text is visible once I'm all done and ready to export?

Thanx.

WB

[carl123]

Try removing the Stroke in the Text Frame panel  (Publisher)

[NotMyFault]

I think this is a bug in Publisher to keep a stroke on the line. designer and Photo will remove any stroke when a curve is converted to path test.

After you have a path text with visible line in Publisher, you can’t remove it. Any stroke change affects the text only, not the curve path.

[GarryP]

32 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

I think this is a bug in Publisher to keep a stroke on the line.

On the contrary, I believe this to be expected behaviour. (And by “expected” I mean expected by the developers, and therefore not a bug, which would be the software doing something which wasn’t expected by the developers.)

Publisher keeps the line visible by default, for whatever reason.

Designer and Photo make the line invisible because they don’t have the Text Frame Panel of Publisher, which is where, as carl123 said, you can make the line invisible if you want that. (If they didn't make the line invisible it would be permanently visible for anyone who didn't have Publisher.)

It’s maybe a bit strange that one application does the same thing differently to the other two but it’s just how it is and something that simply needs to be remembered.

(Personally I think it would be better if all three applications made the line invisible but I don’t use that feature very much so I don’t know how useful keeping the line is.)

I did a quick forum search for path text line and found lots of people asking about this, as I expected, but couldn’t find an ‘official’ response about it. Maybe someone else can find a response from a staff member, because I feel sure that there is one out there somewhere.

[PaulEC]

There have been complaints in the past that the line disappears, so it seems to be a case of not being able to please all of the people all of the time!

Personally I'd rather that it was there and, if you don't want it, you just don't give it a width. That's easier than having to have a duplicate line, if you do want it.

[stokerg]

53 minutes ago, GarryP said:

On the contrary, I believe this to be expected behaviour. (And by “expected” I mean expected by the developers, and therefore not a bug, which would be the software doing something which wasn’t expected by the developers.)

 

Yup this is correct.

54 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I did a quick forum search for path text line and found lots of people asking about this, as I expected, but couldn’t find an ‘official’ response about it. Maybe someone else can find a response from a staff member, because I feel sure that there is one out there somewhere.

We so have this logged with the Developers, however from reading the log this is expected and not a bug.  Publisher defaults to using a 0.2pt for a curve, where as Photo and Designer both default to 0.  However, as of yet, there hasn't been a comment stating why this is.  I'll see if i can get comment from the QA team and report back.

So @Wayne Burrows, if you first select the Pen Tool, set the stroke to 0 instead of the default 0.2, then draw the path and add your text, the line won't be present.

[NotMyFault]

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

After you have a path text with visible line in Publisher, you can’t remove it. Any stroke change affects the text only, not the curve path.

Can anybody please show how exactly you can remove the stroke on the line only, without impacting the text?
Even if this thread is in Desktop, can you show how to do this on Publisher on iPad?

I’m ok with publisher keeping the line stroke - but I found no way to change it once it is converted to text path 

[GarryP]

I think you need to remove the stroke from the line before you add the text.
Otherwise, as you have said, after the text is put on the line, the stroke setting applies to the text not the line.

[NotMyFault]

Finally i found a way and an answer to the OP question:

you can use the fill tool, set the context to stroke, and set type to none.

The nice thing: You can use the same to create a stroke in Designer.

So it would be really great if Affinity can add this information explicitly to the help files.

[NotMyFault]

Actually, the help text is quite misleading. it says a curve / shape „gets consumed“ when you convert it to a path text or similar. This is obviously no longer (V2) the case. Designer/Photo simply remove the stroke (and fill), but you can use the fill tool and suitable settings to add a stroke again. The curve itself stays intact.

 

https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Text/pathText.html

 

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Can anybody please show how exactly you can remove the stroke on the line only, without impacting the text?
Even if this thread is in Desktop, can you show how to do this on Publisher on iPad?

In Publisher, you just use the Text Frame panel.

Here's an iPad screenshot: 

[Wayne Burrows]

3 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Finally i found a way and an answer to the OP question:

you can use the fill tool, set the context to stroke, and set type to none.

The nice thing: You can use the same to create a stroke in Designer.

So it would be really great if Affinity can add this information explicitly to the help files.

 

I made a line with the Pen tool. Set the stroke to zero BEFORE adding the text, and waalah, ALL GONE. That was pretty darn simple after looking back on it. Lol. I figured that the stroke would no longer exist after being set to zero which is why I didn't even bother... But apparently that isn't the case.

Appreciate the Solve, @NotMyFault!!

[Wayne Burrows]

3 hours ago, GarryP said:

I think you need to remove the stroke from the line before you add the text.
Otherwise, as you have said, after the text is put on the line, the stroke setting applies to the text not the line.

Precisely @GarryP. That is exactly what worked for me just now. Thanx!