Mass inline pinning of images

[Steviegarrad]

I have some text where a lot of the text will be replaced with images. For example:  "This is a <red icon>, this is a <blue icon>." for example will become "This is a 🔴, this is a 🔵."

I can currently place an image in the text and using the pinning feature get this similar to the above. However this is extremely time consuming.

I have also considered using a custom font and this would work well for us, but we're interested full color, using full color fonts leads us down a path I don't want to follow currently.

Are there any good workflows for this?

[carl123]

Not sure I fully understand what you are doing but if you are just replacing text with coloured circles then this may work

One way...

Put the words you want in colour in the colour you want them

Like this...

 "This is a <red icon>, this is a <blue icon>."

Then any "text/character" you replace them with will already have those colours

You can use a wingding font (or similar) to get a circle character

So then do a find & replace ...

<red icon> with that Wingding font/character
<blue icon> with that Wingding font/character

 

 

[Steviegarrad]

Yeah, thats if we put our images into a glyph. We could go down a black and white path with our images into a custom font to replace, but we have custom art that we want to replace with.

We rate this 4/5.

We rate this <image>.

So right now, we can replace the 4/5 with an image using pinning to get it aligned correctly, but I have 30 text boxes with text that needs this to happen.

 

[MikeTO]

If you copy the image to the clipboard (whether from inside of Affinity or find macOS Finder (and presumably from Windows explorer but I don't know for sure), you can simply paste the image and it will be pinned inline at the text cursor position. So search for <red icon>, which will select the next occurrence of that text string in your document, and paste the red icon from the clipboard - that will replace the selected text and pin the icon inline.

Use a lot of small icons pinned inline in the Publisher manual I've written (you can download it from the link in my signature). All of those tool icons are done this way which is similar to what you're doing, although the layout may be quite different. Although I'm not finding and replacing, I do paste them rather than using the pinning panel. The only downside is that all of them would be 1 pt too high if I did nothing else, I always have to change the leading override to get the icons lined up nicely. So I rarely paste a new one in and just copy a previous one. I have to copy the text and not the icon, because copying the icon will result in another new one that is 1 pt too high. So If I need "Frame Text tool <icon>", I copy that whole string of text including the space following the icon and paste that in, resulting in a perfectly-aligned icon.

Cheers