PepGold Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 Hi, I know that you resize the height of text frame to last line visible by double clicking on the resize handle / control point. That resizes the frame to align with the baseline, which I great, that it was I want most times. But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead. Is that possbile.
walt.farrell Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 14 minutes ago, PepGold said: But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead. I'm curious why you need that. It is possible for Artistic Text but I do not think it's possible, for Frame Text except by adjusting the text Baseline. In Designer you can select the text in the last line, open the Character panel, and adjust the Baseline there. E.g., -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
Old Bruce Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 16 minutes ago, PepGold said: But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead. Is that possbile. Not to the best of my knowledge and experience. This is because every font (Gill Sans, Arial, Courier, etc., etc.) has different heights for the Ascenders and Descenders. Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
thomaso Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 Without modifying a text baseline you can use the required descender height as the text frame's bottom inset, for instance: descender & frame height.m4v PepGold 1 • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.6.2 | Affinity V2.6.3
walt.farrell Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 40 minutes ago, thomaso said: Without modifying a text baseline you can use the required descender height as the text frame's bottom inset, for instance: Interesting idea. It does require Publisher, though, and the screenshot in the first post appears to be from Designer. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
R C-R Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 3 hours ago, PepGold said: But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead. Like @walt.farrell, I am curious why you would need that. Is it for aligning with or snapping to something else or what? All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps (currently 2.6.4); 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Oufti Posted July 20, 2023 Posted July 20, 2023 7 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I'm curious why you need that. Perhaps is it due to an (unnecessary) fear of losing, on print or export, the protruding parts of the letters? Affinity Suite 2.6 – Monterey 12.7.6 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue. 🦉No AI content.
GarryP Posted July 20, 2023 Posted July 20, 2023 6 hours ago, Oufti said: Perhaps is it due to an (unnecessary) fear of losing, on print or export, the protruding parts of the letters? If that happens then it would be probably because a bug has been introduced into the software; otherwise you don’t need to worry about it.
carl123 Posted July 20, 2023 Posted July 20, 2023 13 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I'm curious why you need that. Maybe it's snapping related E.g. Snapping a picture frame to the text frame covers the descenders I'm just as curious as to why the apps choose to display the descenders outside the text frame in the first place? walt.farrell 1 To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
PepGold Posted July 20, 2023 Author Posted July 20, 2023 Hi all, I just ended up converting the text to curves. 18 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I'm curious why you need that. Just calculating a layout grid where that had to be aligned from ascender to descender, as supposed to from cap height to baseline as one normally would walt.farrell 1
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