Coverting text to curves

[Scouser]

Hi all

Was asked to convert text in a file to curves today. Managed this with the aid of a YouTube guide but was doing each line alone. Not a massive deal. But was wondering if I can select multiple text items and bulk convert to curves.

If so, would lines in the text have an effect. I mean dividing lines between the text, like a table.

Or maybe I could select the text layers and then bulk convert.

Thanks for your help.

[DuncanL]

You can multi-select and convert to curves:

(Keep a copy of your Affinity document with everything as text;  otherwise you'll just be making life difficult for yourself if you want to make changes in the future and everything is now curves.)

If it's just for final output,  you can tell the PDF export to convert all text to curves when saving the PDF:


This obviously breaks the PDF being serachable\screen reader friendly etc;  but if it's for print that doesn't matter.

[Scouser]

Thanks @DuncanL the PDF export option seems the way to go. It's only for my printers to use.

[Scouser]

Hi again @DuncanL Just wanted to ask.

Is it just text that can be converted to curves or the lines in the same design? (Dividing lines between the text in the nutritional panel to left of design).

Image below.

I ask because I was playing with another file and the designer seems to have changed all text and lines to curves.

Thanks

[DuncanL]

I don't know how that table is constructed - you would have to expand the "Nutritions group" I think.

You can convert shapes to curves if you want to edit their nodes - as with text no longer being text;  it is then no longer a "shape", so the "magic" shape editing nodes (the red diamond editor in this example) no longer appear: