Benchmark vs Google Slides (i.e pls copy these features)

[Grow Genius]

Hi,

Google Slides has a few very useful features which Affinity is missing. if you coudl impliment some or all it would be great: 

1) The ability to scroll text size changes with different sizes of text selected in the same text box.  I frequently use different sizes of Text (and different fonts) in the same paragraph. Being able to vary it all by just scrolling when adjusting design layout is extremly useful and fast vs having to manually select groups of equally sized letters and adjust independently. 

2) Impliment a proper format painter that can be used to target selcted sections of text: You can currently do the copy + ctrl alt v to paste some characteristics but that affects the whole text in the target box not just a selected area (eg trying to have bolded first words in a paragraph but not the rest of text: if you copy any characteristics they apply to all text not just selected text).

3) Callouts: currently you can't extend the "arrow / pointer" part of the callout beyond a virtual box, which is very limiting. Normally you can pull teh tip of the pinter past the limits of the text box part of a callout (see Google Slides for ideal implimentation). 

4) Guides that span multiple pages / artboards. Snapping currently (sometimes annoyingly) spans multiple artboards. It would be useful if guidelines set up to help alignment also spanned multiple aligned boards.

5) Going just beyond matching Google Sheets features: Layer Based Effects (obvs) currently only apply to whole text objects not to selected sections of text text - so if I want outlined first words, I need to chop out the first words of a paragraph, make space, then insert a new text frame in the space using the effects I want whilst maintaining spacing manually. it'd be niceif they didn't but I get that's major surgery.

 

And obviously if you can sort out a vectoriser I'll happlily pay an upgrade fee.

 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Grow Genius

As far as I understand your requirements/suggestions…

1) Have you tried using Text Styles ?

2) Have you tried the Style Picker Tool ?

3) The Quick Shapes are just simple shapes, if you need something different then you need to use Convert to Curves and modify the shape as appropriate.

4) This sort of thing has been requested previously.

5) I don’t know what you are describing.

P.S. Different requests/suggestions for different things should be, as per forum guidelines, in different threads.

[Grow Genius]

Hi Gary,  thanks for your time and responses. 

1) Yes - but unless i'm missing something I still can't scale all text easily with just a scroll of the wheel over font size. The issue is that as soon as you have multiple font sizes in a text box you can't select all the text and change font size without setting all of it to one , new, size.  In slides you can, and as I use edmixzed font sizes often this is actually a major part of my workflow. 

2) Wow - that works, Thanks. Odd it's not constrained the way ctril alt v is even if you pre-select a section of text....would have assumed same code.

3) I actually came here just now to remove that question befroe I waste someone's time as I just worked it out and facepalmed. Not used to having that option! 

4) Good stuff. 

5) You can't drop shadow (or other layere effect) a section of text. Obvs becasue layer effects work on layers. Would be nice of some basics could apply to sections in a text box the way other fontbased attributes can. Proabably a much bigger ask than it sounds.

p>S : cheers. Didn't notice: someone said post ur feedback on our forums so  I did.  If I post anything in future I'll do so appropes etc