How To [AffDes] - Frame Text Question

[Onur]

Hi everybody.

 

I want to learn how to divide frames continuously frame after frame. I am adding an image below to explain more clearly.

[mac_heibu]

This is not/will not be possible in Affinity Designer, but will be a central feature of the "upcoming" Affinity Publisher.

The Affinity team considers Designer to be a pure design application, not a publishing app.

[KoBu]

Hi Onur,

I fear we have to wait for this possibility until Affinity Publisher is available.

[Onur]

Hi mac_heibu,

 

I didn't get the point to be honest. Having multiple rows is not just for "publishing". What do you guys do when you need to divide a long text into several rows?

[Alfred]

At the moment we have to do it manually. When Affinity Publisher comes out, we will be able to open our *.afdesign files in APub, add linked text frames and save the amended file for further editing in either AD or APub; the behaviour of the linked text frames will still be available when the file is reopened in AD.

[mac_heibu]

If this feature is THAT important for you: Do it manually by pasting the overflowing text into a different frame. A matter of 10 seconds, I think.

[Frank Jonen]

"Publisher" might be a bit of a misnomer, but there is not much known about it yet. I'm hoping for a hardcore typesetting tool that rivals TeX. But with a better UI than I did back then ;)

 

I'm doing the same thing I've done before Illustrator had that feature. I look where the text ends. Put my cursor there, select to the end (SHIFT + End key), cut, paste to new frame. How many columns can an illustration possibly have? Five? If it's more than five, do it in Quark. Takes too much time to balance more than 5 columns by hand.