helirose Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hi, I've had Affinity for about a week now and as an /affordable/ piece of software, I am loving it. Also bringing back memories of work experience several years ago at Wilford industrial estate... ;) but anyway, on to the problem.... Having a little bit of trouble with the full justify option - it just doesn't do anything attractive for my layout at all. Expecting it to space out my words nicely stretching across the full width of the frame and instead it's just adding a massive gap between the last two in the text frame! Not sure if there are settings to correct this or if the tool simply doesn't work as expected. Can anyone clarify what's going on with this one? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hi helirose, To avoid the big differences in the last line when the total justification of your text (if that's your question), you can expand the menu by clicking the arrow to the right of "All justify" in the toolbar Contextual. This gives you the choice between several options (right, left, center in addition to total). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helirose Posted February 10, 2017 Author Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hi helirose, To avoid the big differences in the last line when the total justification of your text (if that's your question), you can expand the menu by clicking the arrow to the right of "All justify" in the toolbar Contextual. This gives you the choice between several options (right, left, center in addition to total). Thanks, I'd already tried those, though. I want the text fully justified but evenly, not with one huge gap on the right and everything else clumped up together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Perhaps by regulating the approach on the whole text, I see no other solution.If you have several text frames, the effect may not be very aesthetic if their last lines are very different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 10, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hi helirose, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) What you are looking for is hyphenation settings to control justified type. Currently Affinity apps don't offer hyphenation controls, only justification so it's not easy to get the result you are looking for. This is one of the features that will be introduced in Publisher later. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hi helirose, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) What you are looking for is hyphenation settings to control justified type. Currently Affinity apps don't offer hyphenation controls, only justification so it's not easy to get the result you are looking for. This is one of the features that will be introduced in Publisher later. Hi MEB, Thanks for the information. I would like this feature to be brought to AD as well. We sometimes need to take special care of the framed text presentation and it would really help us. Unfortunately I do not believe it because it seems that at the level of the text everything will be done for Publisher and AD will remain the poor relative with fewer possibilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 10, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hi reglico, I said it will be introduced in Publisher because this is a critical feature for text heavy projects. It may end ported back to Designer as well since it's also fundamental here, but that's up with the dev teams. Danny D 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Hi reglico, I said it will be introduced in Publisher because this is a fundamental feature for text heavy projects. It may end ported back to Designer as well since it's also needed there, but that's up with the dev teams. I agree with you about Publisher and I hope that AD will also benefit from it in a future release, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Without seeing an example I'm not sure what the cause is, but if hyphenation would fix it be aware that you can hyphenate manually, by inserting soft hyphens. The menu option is Text > Insert Character > Soft Hyphen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helirose Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 Hi, just like to post an update; Thanks for all the replies, I definitely didn't need hyphenation. Sorry I couldn't show an example but the piece I was working on was my CV and the trouble was on personal information. I ended up just working around my problem, separating the single line of text into sections and positioning them manually. I haven't had any problem with justification since so perhaps it was just a one-off quirk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayman Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 I want to 1-up this issue as well. Justification just doesn't work properly. Even with the Publisher beta, it's still not right, even with hyphenation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayman Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 After messing around with the min/normal/max settings on the letter and word justification, I was able to get the result I was looking for but it took a long time. The issue I was having was the letter justification. Would be nice if the standard set up was -25% / 0 / 25% instead of 0% / 0% /0% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morten_Hjort Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I'm having the same issue. Its unusable if I cant easy control the last line or even better every single line without the need to create several layers. Any smart tricks I'm not aware of? mvrc_hvnry and AffinityNewbie7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obiobik Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 On 2/10/2017 at 8:23 PM, MEB said: Hi helirose, Welcome to Affinity Forums What you are looking for is hyphenation settings to control justified type. Currently Affinity apps don't offer hyphenation controls, only justification so it's not easy to get the result you are looking for. This is one of the features that will be introduced in Publisher later. It has been almost 3 years already and justification settings are still not good enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 40 minutes ago, obiobik said: It has been almost 3 years already and justification settings are still not good enough. Which application are you using, and what problem are you having? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 7, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 7, 2021 Hi @obiobik, Welcome to Affinity Forums This thread is quite old and there was quite a few changes since then. Can you post an example of the issue(s) you are experiencing/having? Publisher is already out and offer more control over text than Designer. What application are you using? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 38 minutes ago, obiobik said: It has been almost 3 years already and justification settings are still not good enough. MEB said this will be introduced in APublisher and this is already done. So what do you need else / further? Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obiobik Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Sorry for all. I had to be more specific when pointing out an issue. I have mistakenly read that I am in the Publisher section. The issue concerns me is in Publisher, justification settings are not efficient enough as in the Indesign. In the justification settings the app does not allow me to give minus value to the "Desired Letter Space". It just stands as 0 px. So I cannot achieve a nice justified left paragraph. @MEB @Joachim_L @walt.farrell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 9 minutes ago, obiobik said: In the justification settings the app does not allow me to give minus value to the "Desired Letter Space". It just stands as 0 px. So I cannot achieve a nice justified left paragraph. I am not sure why you desperately need a negative desired letter space for a justified left paragraph, but this is possible. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 12 minutes ago, obiobik said: Oh god, I mistakenly added new comment. Is there any way to delete? You can hide it under "Options" at the bottom of the comment. obiobik 1 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obiobik Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 3 minutes ago, Joachim_L said: I am not sure why you desperately need a negative desired letter space for a justified left paragraph, but this is possible. Thanks for the answer but in my justification settings, it writes 0 px. It is not percentage value which I don't know why. Am I doing something wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 3 minutes ago, obiobik said: Am I doing something wrong? Good question, looks different for me on Windows. Maybe you should post this on the bug section for Mac. Or reset your application (backup first). Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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