krollian Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 Just a simple question: It is possible to give a stroke to a polygon, say a circle for example, that have artistic text applied? I had to duplicate the circle to get a stroke. See the image Graphic designer from Bilbao (Spain) FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer rocks! - Diseñador gráfico de Bilbao (España). FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer ¡mola! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 23, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 23, 2016 I don't think that's possible at the moment - I think we decided the UI would be too confusing as you need to be able to specify the stroke style of the text and you also want to specify the stroke of the path, so we decided it was just more clear if we didn't allow it... We're definitely open to considering a solution if anyone has one? Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krollian Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 Maybe if is text is selected the stroke is applied to the text. If the circle is selected, the stroke is applied to the line of the circle? MattP 1 Graphic designer from Bilbao (Spain) FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer rocks! - Diseñador gráfico de Bilbao (España). FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer ¡mola! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lojza Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Actually there is a pattern for this in the gradient fill tool. When using this on a shape, there is a small dropdown on the tool bar named "Context", where one can set if the gradient should be applied to either fill or outline. Would it be feasible to extend "Context" dropdown with options: Text fill, Text outline, Shape fill, Shape outline? Gradient fill tool has also the option to use solid color, instead of a gradient, so this might work. Of course, the Stroke pane should also reflect this setting (in order to properly set either text stroke or shape stroke properties). MattP 1 UX/UI designer, IT analyst & consultant, Business Architect at Cool Ticket (www.coolticket.co). MacBook Pro 13'' Early 2015, 3,1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, Apple Thunderbolt Display 27'' (2560 x 1440). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 23, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 23, 2016 We've actually been chatting in the office about this earlier - in the future we may allow for text items to have children which they can elect to flow within (act as frames) or around (act like path text) and as these would be visible in the Layers panel, you could select them and just manipulate them just like any other objects... That way would be the most hierarchical, extensible model we can think of... But we'll keep thinking :) Lojza and anon1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lojza Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 We've actually been chatting in the office about this earlier - in the future we may allow for text items to have children which they can elect to flow within (act as frames) or around (act like path text) and as these would be visible in the Layers panel, you could select them and just manipulate them just like any other objects... That way would be the most hierarchical, extensible model we can think of... But we'll keep thinking :) This sounds great! Essentially, an artist text could have a background, too (if I understand correctly). That would be sweet :) UX/UI designer, IT analyst & consultant, Business Architect at Cool Ticket (www.coolticket.co). MacBook Pro 13'' Early 2015, 3,1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, Apple Thunderbolt Display 27'' (2560 x 1440). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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