Several pictures with Text

[Magic-cube]

Hello everyone, 

I have affinity designer 2.

Is there an easier way to solve the following task than doing everything manually? 

The background is always the same image. In the foreground is a text that changes. I have 100 texts and would like to create a separate image for each text. The image format is always the same. 

[carl123]

Do you have any of the other Affinity products or do you only have Designer?

[Magic-cube]

I only have the designer

[thomaso]

There might be a workaround for AD. (in APub it would be easy with Data Merge).

1. I'm using a vertically long document that can hold multiple vertical copies of the image.

2. Then I create one long text frame which contains the various text paragraphs with the leading set to the image height. (If each text has more than 1 line you need to use "Space after" additionally with reduced leading to achieve the image height as sum.)

3. The text frame gets nested inside the image layer. With "Lock Children" activated a duplicate of the image+text gets moved by the image height. Then with "Power Duplicate" the multiple copies should be easy.

4. In the Export Persona all copied image layers get selected + turned into slices with 1 click for export of all image copies with 1 click.

Unfortunately I run into an issue: it seems with Power Duplicate (cmd-J) the active layer attribute "Lock Children" gets ignored. This feels like a bug to me – but possibly it got fixed in V2? (this not locking children also occurs when using multiple power-duplicated copies of Artboards, one for each image+text).

[carl123]

2 hours ago, Magic-cube said:

Is there an easier way to solve the following task than doing everything manually? 

The background is always the same image. In the foreground is a text that changes. I have 100 texts and would like to create a separate image for each text. The image format is always the same. 

No easy way in Designer but this should work...

1. Create an Artboard the size of your image
2. Place your background image on this Artboard
3. Place some text where you want it to appear on the image
4. Select the Artboard in the Layers panel, hit the Enter key and in the dialog box that appears duplicate it 99 times

You will now have 100 artboards with the same image and text
"Simply" change the text within each Artboard to the new text you want

[Magic-cube]

Thanks for the answers, you guys are great! 

I will not solve this with ad2 but with canva. 

I've heard that it's really easy with Excel. This led me to the question of whether it also works in ad2. 

But it's not that bad.

Thank you