MikeTO Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Is there no way to convert a shape text frame back to just a shape? Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 I don't think you can get back to a Shape once you've converted it to something else (Curve, Shape Text, ...). 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted November 11, 2023 Author Share Posted November 11, 2023 You can convert path text back a path by converting to curves and deleting the text parts of the resulting group. It's just shapes that don't have a way to toggle it off. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 27 minutes ago, MikeTO said: It's just shapes that don't have a way to toggle it off. As I said, you can't get back to a Shape after you've converted it to anything else. (Except by Undo, of course.) 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 Not sure what you are wanting to do but... What if you go back in the History panel to before you changed the shape, copy it to the clipboard, then go forwards again to where you were, and paste it back in there. Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 (edited) 13 hours ago, MikeTO said: You can convert path text back a path by converting to curves and deleting the text parts of the resulting group. It's just shapes that don't have a way to toggle it off. It works for me In V1 with a "Shape Text" layer, too – while both types don't return to an initial parametric shape object (e.g. "Cog") but to a "Curve" object of course, since turning a shape to a text frame needs to convert it to curves. EDIT: see next post Edited November 12, 2023 by thomaso Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 8 hours ago, thomaso said: since turning a shape to a text frame needs to convert it to curves. No, the parametric shape remains as the basis of the Shape Text, and its controls are available with Node Tool as usual, so the developers could easily provide a means of getting the parametric shape object from a Shape Text without a conversion to Curves. walt.farrell and thomaso 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 1 hour ago, lepr said: No, the parametric shape remains as the basis of the Shape Text, and its controls are available Good point, yes, I was wrong before. So it appears both types (path text | shape text) behave in the same ways: a.) Their parametric handles are maintained as text frames and b.) both result in a "Curve(s)" object if 're-'converted. Thus it may need more specification by @MikeTO to the mentioned difference (which I can't confirm) … 13 hours ago, MikeTO said: You can convert path text back a path by converting to curves and deleting the text parts of the resulting group. It's just shapes that don't have a way to toggle it off. … regarding the goal: To finally achieve any initial object type or to achieve a "Curve(s)" object? Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 5 hours ago, thomaso said: regarding the goal: To finally achieve any initial object type or to achieve a "Curve(s)" object? Surely the most flexible and straightforward solution would be to simply recover the base object of the Shape Text. That could then be converted to curves if the user specifically wants a Curve/Curves object instead of a parametric shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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