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Text path on lower outside of circle without going upside down or backwards


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10 minutes ago, Catshill said:

Hit return and adjust baseline to place text at correct height.

Not sure I understand... from which point do I press return. That seems to make it go upside down...

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8 hours ago, ronanski said:

Not sure I understand... from which point do I press return. That seems to make it go upside down...

I’ve assumed you wanted text at the top of the ellipse and then (after pressing return) wanting text at the bottom of the circle as well. 

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17 hours ago, ronanski said:

Not sure I understand... from which point do I press return. That seems to make it go upside down...

After pressing return you should be able to see two sets of little triangles(Red Arrows). A Green for the start and a Red for the end. And a New Paragraph symbol (Green Arrow) if you have Text > Show Special Characters checked.

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I used Centred for the Alignment for the paragraphs. This makes the words centred between the two little triangles, dragging them will move the text keeping it centred.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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17 hours ago, Brian_J said:

Type the text on the inside of the path, then on the context toolbar, set Baseline to position the text where you want it relative to the path.

See this Affinity help page for details:
https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Text/pathText.html

Thank you Brian this worked. I would've preferred if I could snap it exactly so that the top of the text became the baseline but this'll do

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1 hour ago, ronanski said:

Thank you Brian this worked. I would've preferred if I could snap it exactly so that the top of the text became the baseline but this'll do

I'm with you on that — I wish we had more control over positioning text on a path. I'd like the ability to align text to a path based on: baseline, ascenders, descenders, x-height, and cap height; for text inside and outside the path. And I wish we could change the offset from the path from percent to units of measure like px, inches, mm, etc.

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