Pierce F Posted November 11, 2024 Posted November 11, 2024 I have spent hours and hours trying to find a solution to this, hoping someone can help! See attachment for visual reference. Here's the issue: * I need to nest multiple text boxes and images WITHIN a single text box on the Affinity Designer iPad app. * On the desktop version of Affinity Designer, this is as easy as copying and pasting items inside a text box. * However, this simple cutting and pasting procedure does not work on iPad. BUT... * When I use the iPad app to OPEN a file created on the desktop app, the nested text box in the desktop document is still editable on iPad. HOWEVER... * I can't for the life of me figure out how to reproduce the procedure on the iPad app, by itself. * See attached image. How do I reproduce this layer structure on iPad from scratch? I am an Adobe veteran new to Affinity. It's weird to say, but the whole reason I got Affinity Designer was for this one, very specific functionality, which is not available in Adobe Illustrator. I need it for a project and am hitting one dead end after another. If anyone can help, I will be forever indebted to you! Desperately, PF Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 11, 2024 Posted November 11, 2024 Welcome to the Affinity forums, @Pierce F. It would help if you shared the .afdesign document you're showing us in the screenshots. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Pierce F Posted November 17, 2024 Author Posted November 17, 2024 @walt.farrell I have attached a desktop-version file along with a screenshot of how the layers look. If I open the desktop file in the iPad app, I can manipulate the nested layers, but I cannot recreate them. I have bene scouring tutorials, videos and forums for some way to reproduce this on the iPad. Is there any way to do this? Nested Text Example.afdesign Quote
NotMyFault Posted November 17, 2024 Posted November 17, 2024 Unfortunately there are differences what can be done on iPad. The copy/paste function for text frames is one of these areas. It is long known that you can’t paste anything except test into them. You found another variant falling in this category. I will add this case. text on path with pasting images not working Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
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