Gavin123456 Posted August 28, 2023 Posted August 28, 2023 Hello all. I have just purchased iPad v2 designer i have having a lot of trouble placing text around a circle. I create the circle. I use artistic text tool to place text on the top of first circle . No problems there . I create a second circle, a copy of the first with its text. I move the text to the bottom after changing it to reflect what I want the text to say on the bottom of the circle. Boy it's upside down inside the circle. youtube is not helping . Videos show people achieving the desired results but I can see which functions they are selecting to get the result. it's easy to do on my laptop and I have done it before with affinity designer . But I have all my fonts on my iPad that I want to use . I appreciate your advice. And thanks in advance G Quote
NotMyFault Posted August 28, 2023 Posted August 28, 2023 The help file explains the different nodes, which control the text flow and position. There are very small and difficult to spot. https://affinity.help/photo2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Text/pathText.html 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.
Oufti Posted August 28, 2023 Posted August 28, 2023 (edited) In case it helps : to shift the text inside/outside the circle, you can modify the baseline of the characters (giving it a negative value for example). (Sorry, it's a desktop view. I don't know how it is on an iPad.) Edited August 28, 2023 by Oufti Quote Affinity Suite 2.5 – Monterey 12.7.5 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue.
Alfred Posted August 28, 2023 Posted August 28, 2023 8 hours ago, Gavin123456 said: I create the circle. I use artistic text tool to place text on the top of first circle . No problems there . I create a second circle, a copy of the first with its text. I move the text to the bottom after changing it to reflect what I want the text to say on the bottom of the circle. Boy it's upside down inside the circle. It’s easier if you just use one circle with two lines of text. Type the top text, press the Return key and type the bottom text to get something like this (screenshot from AD version 1, but version 2 should be the same): Drag the green triangles to adjust start positions of the two lines of text: Select the second piece of text: Adjust the baseline to move it outside the circle: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
mollywaters Posted September 3, 2023 Posted September 3, 2023 I’m trying to edit my text around the circle. The tutorials I have found show the character positioning in the text tool. Photo 1 is from a tutorial. Photo 2 is from my ipad as you can see I don’t have this available. I’m using designer 2 on an iPad Pro the app is up to date, I even tried removing and reinstalling with no success. Any help would be appreciated. Quote
walt.farrell Posted September 3, 2023 Posted September 3, 2023 7 hours ago, mollywaters said: I’m trying to edit my text around the circle. The tutorials I have found show the character positioning in the text tool. Photo 1 is from a tutorial. Photo 2 is from my ipad as you can see I don’t have this available. I’m using designer 2 on an iPad Pro the app is up to date, I even tried removing and reinstalling with no success. Any help would be appreciated. You're trying to follow a V1 tutorial using the V2 applications. Things have moved around in the UI, so you will need to determine where they've moved, but everything you could do in V1 you can do in V2. The Help should provide guidance, as well as the standard V2 tutorials. In the Help, try: https://affinity.help/designer2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/characterPanel.html Pictorially, in the Text panel, drill down where I've marked: Quote -- 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: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
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