kat Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1. I created a balloon the using a handle dragged it so the shape reversed. I then added text, but the text is reversed. What do I do? 2. How do I control the text in the not reversed Balloon? Quote Affinity Suite v2.5, Mac Mini M2 Pro 2023, Sonoma, OS 14.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Apparently you flipped the object. Re-flip, then select a Shape Tool and move the red dots to adjust the tail. kat 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarinC Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I prefer to put the text above the shape, not inside it. I have more control over the text or maybe because that's how I have always done it in the past. Then I group the text and the object. kat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ldina Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 @kat If you place your text inside the bubble as a child layer, when you flip horizontal (or move the handles to reverse the orientation), both bubble and text will be reversed. You can do at least one of two things. Keep the text as a separate layer (not as a child layer) so that when you reverse the bubble, you don't reverse the text. Or, if text is already reversed, highlight just the text with the Move tool and flip just the text horizontal. kat 1 Quote 2017 15" MacBook Pro, 16 GB RAM, Ventura v13.7, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher v1 & v2, Adobe CS6 Extended, LightRoom v6, Blender, InkScape, Dell 30" Monitor, Canon PRO-100 Printer, i1 Spectrophotometer, i1Publish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 22 minutes ago, thomaso said: Apparently you flipped the object. Re-flip, then select a Shape Tool and move the red dots to adjust the tail. This worked! I'm using the text frame insets to place text!. My Apub 2 is crashing a lot. Images & balloons take up 1 of 8 pages. Better to take them out, put them in AD and link the image/balloons AD to Apub? Quote Affinity Suite v2.5, Mac Mini M2 Pro 2023, Sonoma, OS 14.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 2 minutes ago, kat said: Better to take them out, put them in AD and link the image/balloons AD to Apub? Why use AD? You can do all of that in Publisher, directly in the Publisher Persona. 41 minutes ago, kat said: I created a balloon the using a handle dragged it so the shape reversed. With speech balloons, there's a red control on the tail that will let you move the tail without reversing the object itself. That should be easier than flipping the whole object. kat 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 7 minutes ago, kat said: My Apub 2 is crashing a lot. Images & balloons take up 1 of 8 pages. Better to take them out, put them in AD and link the image/balloons AD to Apub? Do you know whether the speech bubbles cause the crashes? As far I know placed Affinity documents don't avoid crashes but possibly cause other issues. Personally I avoid using the bubble shapes directly as text frames because of their limitations regarding the target / tail and text alignment vs. frame size. As shown in your second screenshot it may require too much extras like inset/indent and fail with the tail. I prefer two separate objects instead. (and possibly even turn the bubble shape into a curve object + move the nodes manually) kat 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted April 30 Author Share Posted April 30 @KarinC @Ldina @thomaso You we all right. I ended up putting text on top of the balloon callout most of the time. Much easier to position than inside the shape. Quote Affinity Suite v2.5, Mac Mini M2 Pro 2023, Sonoma, OS 14.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 1 hour ago, kat said: Much easier to position than inside the shape. But if you move the bubble, you have to move its text in exactly the same way. You also cannot use the centering (vertical and horizontal) of the text on the bubble, so when you change its size, you have to reformat the text as well - otherwise you will get what you have with the second/bottom bubble on your screenshot, where the text is placed incorrectly/strangely. kat 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarinC Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 19 hours ago, Pšenda said: But if you move the bubble, you have to move its text in exactly the same way. You also cannot use the centering (vertical and horizontal) of the text on the bubble, so when you change its size, you have to reformat the text as well - otherwise you will get what you have with the second/bottom bubble on your screenshot, where the text is placed incorrectly/strangely. If you group them you just move the group. kat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted May 1 Author Share Posted May 1 Sometimes text works inside the group, but most of the time I'm doing text on top grouped with shape. I tried having text as a shape child layer but text disappeared. Quote Affinity Suite v2.5, Mac Mini M2 Pro 2023, Sonoma, OS 14.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 1 hour ago, kat said: I tried having text as a shape child layer but text disappeared. Not any character left visible? It should not fully disappear but remain visible inside the bubble. 22 hours ago, Pšenda said: You also cannot use the centering (vertical and horizontal) of the text on the bubble, Especially this feature of the bubble shape feels like a limitation to me because it takes the full bounding box height in account (incl. tail) which may led to unexpected results and require additional workarounds like baseline shift or text frame insets. Rather cumbersome to setup if required – and to remove if not required. Thus I prefer a separated handling of bubble and text. – Additionally the bubble shape is limited with the tail to one edge only, which may need another workaround if you want to switch the tail from bottom to left, right or top. From the four workflows below using a separate Text Frame layer appears to me as the "best" compromise between comfort + workarounds + flexibility, which, of course, also depend on the specific layout complexity, wanted goals or preferred user habits. speech bubbles 1-4.m4v kat and Ldina 1 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted May 3 Author Share Posted May 3 Looks about like what I was dealing with. Ah well.... Quote Affinity Suite v2.5, Mac Mini M2 Pro 2023, Sonoma, OS 14.1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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