bendito33 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 I would love to be able to edit the text content of a symbol but not the style of the text. Would be useful for buttons with different calls-to-action as well as UI where a bunch of repeated content like user profiles needs unique titles. DonaldDymn, ROB002, LucidBrot and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Does using a text style help? That allows the different text to share formatting. Changing the style would change all the text in the symbols in the document. The caveat, currently, is that if you add another symbol instance after such a change, the new instance will notice the document uses the same style name with different formatting, and resolve the clash by renaming its style so that it preserves its original appearance. You'd need to either update the symbol after changing the text style, or else apply the document's text style to new symbol instances. An option to say whether symbols with text styles should use their own style definition or the document's, would make this easier. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I'd like to see this feature aswel. Indeed using textstyles works but it doesn't feel intuitive. I like textstyles and symbols separated like it is now but the Symbols panel should indeed offer some options to edit text content. ROB002 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathieu Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 +1 for me! Would be very helpful for UI-design... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Requester Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 +1 for me as well. Currently I'm evaluating different tools for creating UI/UX concepts. Affinity Designer is one of the favorites, but missing this feature could be the killer feature ... :-( One solution would be make this feature for text only - or even let the user select in a list of checkboxes, what attributes of the symbol are synced or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucidBrot Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 +1 Maybe I'm just not getting it, since it seems like one of the main reasons to even create a symbol. I have multiple artboards, with text in one. I make that text a symbol and duplicate it for each artboard. On some artboards I change the color - for this, I disable sync, change the color, re-enable sync. When I now change the font of one symbol instance, only that symbol instances' font is changed. What I'd expect is that all the fonts change - i.e. that text color and font are independent attributes. I'm assuming this is the issue here, that the text color is desynchronized and for some reason also the font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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