wscrcom Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Im struggling a bit with a piece of text; I just want the outline with a transparent centre. If I just set a stroke, the stroke goes 'inside' the letters. If I set an 'outline' in fx, then remove the fill, it removes the outline itself. I have tried making another 'punch out' image and using geometry, but it axes all of the letters, not just the centres. The only way I can think of to do it is rasterise the image and then 'erase' the centre, but this would be messy and inefficient. I know this should be straightforward, but appear to be pretty well stuck now. I assume this is something real simple that I am missing. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Hi Jim, Set an outline, then switch the proxy to the fill (or vice versa) and click the proxy shown in the screen shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wscrcom Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 Hi Mike When I do that, the outline goes inside the shape Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Set the stroke alignment to outside (third icon in the bottom row of the Stroke panel). Bri-Toon 1 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...
wscrcom Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Thanks. That has improved it but theres still a lot of incursion inside the shape, I think caused by the letter spacing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 12, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 12, 2016 Hi wscrcom, You have to build this in a different way if you want to enlarge the stroke keeping the letters as they are: - duplicated the text (to keep a copy of the original) and convert it to curves - selected all the letters (curves) and add them (boolean operation) to create a single object from them - then apply a stroke to this object if needed. Changing its stroke will enlarge the black outline around the letters without affecting them. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wscrcom Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Hi Meb Thanks for responding. This lettering was originally in a logo that I made for a local business http://prntscr.com/ch266l what I am trying to do now is replicate the logo in line only to make a watermark for some photos. So what I actually want to achieve would look like this http://prntscr.com/ch26l0 but with transparency inside the letters instead of white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 12, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 12, 2016 If you need the center transparent subtract the letters from the black object created as described in my previous post (if you want to keep everything as vectors). [EDIT] you just need to remove the fill instead. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wscrcom Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Worked! Thankyou! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 To go from this to this I simply converted to curves, ungrouped the result and then clicked on 'Add' on the Geometry toolbar. wscrcom 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...
Bri-Toon Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 I'm glad the issue was solved, but for the future, in regards to post 5, is there a "kerning" option in the paragraph formatting? Kerning will space out the letters. Doing that, you won't have to convert to curves. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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