mr.burns Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Dear all,I have some text in my document which is flipped horizontally and vertically. If I want to edit the text on the screen it is very difficult since flipped text is not easy to read and Backspace and Del keys work in opposite direction on screen which is little wierd to follow. My question is there any edit box I can use to edit the text written left to right as usual? Thanks... A_B_C and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 18, 2016 Staff Share Posted June 18, 2016 Hi mr.burns, No, there's no other way to edit the text other than doing it directly in the frame text box. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Has this been logged as a feature request? I can see an 'Edit Story' mode being very useful in Affinity Designer, and almost indispensable in the forthcoming Affinity Publisher. A_B_C 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.burns Posted June 20, 2016 Author Share Posted June 20, 2016 Hi, thanks for reply. @MEB: Did you try to edit a horizontally and vertically flipped text on screen? This is really annoying! Is this planned as coming feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 20, 2016 Staff Share Posted June 20, 2016 Hi mr.burns, Yes, this already happened to me too and i'm passing it as an improvement to the dev team. I don't know however when or if it will become available in Designer (or Publisher). They may find more practical to introduce this with Publisher later since they will have to work on several text features at the time and eventually port it back to Designer if that's the case. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 How would this feature work? I have very limited experience with apps that support flipping text horizontally and/or vertically, but in each of them the text automatically flips to normal during text entry or editing & reverts to flipped when the text box is deselected. That makes it easy to edit the text itself but hard to see the effect while doing that. Assuming that is OK, as a workaround why not flip the text back to normal for editing & then flip it again afterwards? It is only a few extra clicks. Would that work? Also, in AD flipping frame text seems to have no effect at all on the text itself. On my system that only works for art text. Is this normal? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.burns Posted June 20, 2016 Author Share Posted June 20, 2016 Hi MEB, thanks for reply. Just to make it clear, I need it for Affinity Photo (Designer/Publisher I don't own).So again, is it planned for Photo as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Why not use an embedded document? This is a typical use case for exactly this! • Write your stuff and save a source document. • Place this document within the target document and do with it, what you want (squeeze, shear, mirror …). • In case of text editing, open the source document and make your edits there. • Back in the target document, all is modified as expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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