Bluufs Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Good Afternoon all, I'm new to Affinity publisher after working in QuarkXpress for 30 + years. For the past 2 hours I've tried everything I can think of to get the cutline (description) under the photo in the attached sample to display correctly. The cutline textbox is the upper most layer on the page. I've tried all the runaround (or text wrapping ) settings for the photo frame with no luck. I'm sure there is a simple solution if someone wouldn't mind filling me in it would be appreciated Quote
MikeTO Posted January 31 Posted January 31 I would group the photo and the cutline below it and apply the text wrap settings to the group rather than to the photo or that empty picture frame. You don't need the empty picture frame either, delete that and just position the photo and cutline group. Cheers Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Bluufs Posted January 31 Author Posted January 31 Mike I'll try grouping the two but I do need the extra empty picture box frame. That's the newspapers' style. "You don't need the empty picture frame either, delete that and just position the photo and cutline group." That's what the client wants - that's what the client gets. So I figured out a clunky workaround. I grouped the image and cutline first, set the runaround for the group taking into account space for the frame and then added the frame with 0 runaround and sent that to the back layer. It worked. Kinda. Not the most intuitive solution. But the question still remains can it be done the way I originally did it. I understand you can't create a box with contents "none" as in QXP to use as the frame. Cheers Quote
pbasdf Posted January 31 Posted January 31 6 hours ago, Bluufs said: For the past 2 hours I've tried everything I can think of to get the cutline (description) under the photo in the attached sample to display correctly. Not sure if I've understood your problem correctly, but if you select the frame for the cutline, then in the Text Frame panel select "Ignore Text Wraps", does that achieve what you want? Quote
MikeTO Posted February 1 Posted February 1 1 hour ago, Bluufs said: But the question still remains can it be done the way I originally did it. I understand you can't create a box with contents "none" as in QXP to use as the frame. Publisher's frames are either text frames or picture frames, they're not interchangeable and can't be set to None like in Quark. I see now why you'd want to use an empty picture or text frame for this purpose. The solution is hard to figure out without seeing more screenshots - the Layers panel with groups expanded, the text wrap settings, etc. But if the empty picture frame has the text wrap applied to it, then Oufti's suggestion of selecting Ignore Text Wraps for the cut line is the answer. If the text wrap is applied to the picture and not the empty picture frame, then setting its text wrap bottom distance to any value that overlaps with the cut line would be a problem, which is why I suggested grouping them and applying the wrap to the group. Cheers Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Old Bruce Posted February 1 Posted February 1 1 hour ago, Bluufs said: ... I understand you can't create a box with contents "none" as in QXP to use as the frame. Just use a Rectangle Shape with no fill and no border. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
MikeTO Posted February 1 Posted February 1 3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Just use a Rectangle Shape with no fill and no border. But then you wouldn't be able to see it on screen when it's deselected. A picture frame or text frame is visible even when it has no fill, stroke, or contents. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
MikeW Posted February 1 Posted February 1 Personally, I think the empty image frame is unnecessary. I would have wrap on the image using the jump setting with zero bottom wrap. I would place the caption frame top against the bottom of the image frame and set wrap on it. The caption text style would have the space above set to push it down however much is desired. It's how I do it in QXP. Quote
Bluufs Posted February 1 Author Posted February 1 18 hours ago, pbasdf said: Not sure if I've understood your problem correctly, but if you select the frame for the cutline, then in the Text Frame panel select "Ignore Text Wraps", does that achieve what you want? pbasdf - Success. That did it. Thanks. So much to relearn. Cheers Quote
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