Baseline-alignment ability for Artistic Text objects

[n_shcherbakov]

 

Now alignment buttons automatically aligns all objects to the size of the selection frame. Unfortunately, because of the fact that texts have outlying elements, this approach leads to incorrect alignment results. It seems better to even add baseline-alignment by default if only text objects are selected, but even if such functionality is optional it would be very good too. 

[loukash]

This is currently "by design". Convert the artistic text to a text frame to align by baseline, that's actually why this command was added to Designer 2.

forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=baseline align artistic text&quick=1

[n_shcherbakov]

@loukash No, it doesn't work quite like that, it's just that the text frame is created by default based on the baseline. Also the text frame can be changed manually and then everything breaks. Plus in the request topic I specified that this behaviour is required specifically for Artistic text.

[loukash]

[n_shcherbakov]

@loukash snapping and alignment are not the same thing

[n_shcherbakov]

@loukash Imagine that you have a lot of individual words (artistic texts objects) and all at different levels. I'm saying that it would be cool to be able to align all of them to the baseline with a single command without having to do a lot of mumbo jumbo

[Old Bruce]

14 minutes ago, n_shcherbakov said:

...Imagine that you have a lot of individual words (artistic texts objects) ... I'm saying that it would be cool to be able to align all of them to the baseline with a single command without having to do a lot of mumbo jumbo

I doubt that it is impossible to code this and I would maybe use it. Align to Baseline as an option when the items selected have some text frames. 

So yes, I can get behind this as an improvement.

[Old Bruce]

I just did a test and find that if I have Snap to guides turned on then the text frames will snap the text's baseline to the guide as well as the frame boundaries. Caveat is that only the last/bottom line will snap, not all of them.

[fde101]

Yes, snapping uses the baseline, but alignment uses the bounding box (as it generally should).

The only benefit I can see from this is being able to quickly align more than two artistic text objects to each others' baselines.  Snapping will accomplish the same thing, but if you have a large number of objects to snap, you would need to apply it to each one separately, while a feature like the one requested could be applied to all of them in one step (after selection).