Add relative inner spacing to textfield and fill whole area with background color(Designer)

[Greeen]

Hello everyone,

I am currently working with various strict design specifications. Headings must have a background colour. At the same time, 30% of the text height must be added around the font as inner spacing, also in the background colour. My current solution is to manually place a rectangle behind the text, but I will have to create hundreds of these headings, which will take a long time.

Is there a faster way to do this in Affinity Designer? I have already tried various things, but they never fulfil the goal.

 

 

Edited December 15, 2023 by Greeen

[MikeTO]

38 minutes ago, Greeen said:

I am currently working with various strict design specifications. Headings must have a background colour. At the same time, 30% of the text height must be added around the font as inner spacing, also in the background colour. My current solution is to manually place a rectangle behind the text, but I will have to create hundreds of these headings, which will take a long time.

Is there a faster way to do this in Affinity Designer? I have already tried various things, but they never fulfil the goal.

Hi and welcome to the forums. You can do this with Decorations which you will find in the Paragraph panel. Decorations allows you to set the paragraph background colour as well as borders. You can specify how much background space to add on each side of the paragraph and where it's measured from. I explained this on page 102 of the current version of my Publisher manual. You can download it free from the link in my signature.

Cheers

[Greeen]

Unfortunately, I have to work with Affinity Designer and don't have the indent option there. Is there a variant for which I don't need Publisher?

[MikeTO]

5 minutes ago, Greeen said:

Unfortunately, I have to work with Affinity Designer and don't have the indent option there. Is there a variant for which I don't need Publisher?

Sorry, some of the features are restricted to the individual apps so you'd need Publisher to do this automatically. You're probably best off with the way you're doing it, creating a background rectangle and grouping it with an art text object. The only measurement you'd need to vary from one to the next would be the right edge since the top, left, and bottom should be unchanged.