Affinity Designer: Hiding Text Selection When Tweaking Type?

[Dooza]

Hi,

 

When I'm adjusting my type in Photoshop on some selected text (for example when tweaking kerning etc) it's very handy to be able to hide the highlighted text selection (Ctrl and H on Windows) to give you an unobstructed view of the tweaks your making.  Is there a way of doing this in Affinity Designer? 

 

Thanks :)

[Madame]

I'm not sure if this apply to Windows, or that I understand your question right, but on my Mac it's just H, no ctrl/cmd.

[Dooza]

I'm not sure if this apply to Windows, or that I understand your question right, but on my Mac it's just H, no ctrl/cmd.

Sorry, I probably should have attached a picture to better explain - please have a look at my attached example picture.  For example, if I wanted to change the font tracking to a part of a sentence, It's a bit distracting to edit the text whilst the text highlight is still visible while making changes.  In Photoshop, if you hit Ctrl H with the text highlighted,  the text highlight disappears even though the text is still actually highlighted and active. I just wondered if there was a way to visually hide the selection?

[Madame]

I see. I don't think you can change part of a text(layer) like that. But when the text layer is selected, you can change to the move tool (V)

and change the font without any disturbing colour.

I think you have to have the selection going if you want to change just a part of the text. Maybe the workaround can be to make to text layers?

[MikeW]

Start a feature request. I do not believe AD has a means of hiding a text selection.