Mithferion Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Hi, guys! I was just wondering if there is a way to set a font (with size and other settings) for both Artistic Text Tool / Frame Text Tool as a default on Designer and Photo. Thanks a lot in advance! Best regards. Hietaharju 1 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted May 5, 2017 Staff Share Posted May 5, 2017 Hi Mithferion, Set your desired font, size etc and click on Edit > Defaults > Save javietor, StanleyHarrison and mykee 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 Great! Thanks a lot, Lee. Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckmcr Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Same here - each time i want to type (text layer) it reverts to certain font and white color. I have to edit, cant it just remember last setting or some default setting that I can save?Same here - each time i want to type (text layer) it reverts to certain font and white color. I have to edit, cant it just remember last setting or some default setting that I can save? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 3, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 3, 2020 Hi @mckmcr, Welcome to Affinity Forums Check the reply my colleague (Lee D) gave above. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toth Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 On 5/5/2017 at 4:28 PM, Lee D said: Hi Mithferion, Set your desired font, size etc and click on Edit > Defaults > Save This doesn't do anything for me - I made one text layer/element, adjusted everything and saved as stated - then I create another text-instance(just clicking an blank spot with the text tool) and it still reverts to Arial 12. Do I need to restart? Can the standards/defaults be checked somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Try Edit > Defaults > Synchronise from Selection Then Edit > Defaults > Save toth 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toth Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 44 minutes ago, carl123 said: Try Edit > Defaults > Synchronise from Selection Then Edit > Defaults > Save Thanks, that did it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonghong Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I tried all the above suggestions to change the default text font from Aerial, 12 pt, Black to a different font and it did not work at all. I currently have Affinity Photo Ver. 1.8.5.703 installed. Any suggestion? I was able to change the font globally with Ver. 1.7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 5 hours ago, tonghong said: I tried all the above suggestions to change the default text font from Aerial, 12 pt, Black to a different font and it did not work at all. I currently have Affinity Photo Ver. 1.8.5.703 installed. Any suggestion? I was able to change the font globally with Ver. 1.7. As the steps work for others (including me), could you perhaps record a video showing what you're doing? Perhaps we can see something you're doing differently. 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...
MihiMiniStudio Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 This is what worked for me (as of May 18, 2021): Set my text styles the way I want them for defaults, then in the menu: Text -> Text Styles -> Save Text Styles as Default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colindun Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 On 12/24/2020 at 6:35 AM, tonghong said: I tried all the above suggestions to change the default text font from Aerial, 12 pt, Black to a different font and it did not work at all. I currently have Affinity Photo Ver. 1.8.5.703 installed. Any suggestion? I was able to change the font globally with Ver. 1.7. I'm having the same issue. I create a text insert using Artistic Text Tool, set the font size and style to what I want as default, then Edit > Defaults > Synchronise from section and Edit > Defaults > Save, and it saves the default correctly if I click an insertion point, but if I then drag a text insert to a different size the default is lost. Any text insert I then create 'defaults' to the last dragged insert size. Odd. I've also tried the Text -> Text Styles -> Save Text Styles as Default approach to no avail. text-defaults.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 57 minutes ago, colindun said: Any text insert I then create 'defaults' to the last dragged insert size. Odd. Not odd. The tool is simply remembering your last-used value. If you want to get back to your default, try Edit > Defaults > Revert. 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...
colindun Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 Thanks, but seems odd to me. If setting a default doesn't mean that it stays the default then having a save default function at all seems a bit pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 38 minutes ago, colindun said: Thanks, but seems odd to me. If setting a default doesn't mean that it stays the default then having a save default function at all seems a bit pointless. If you change to another font face, size and colour and type some text. Then you move to a new location and start to type some more text. Are you going to want the default or are you going to want the face, size and colour you set up? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colindun Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 For my usage in the situation I'm working in (annotating a web page design where I want all the captions and notes the same size and style), I'd want the default. If I want a different size I can click and drag instead of clicking, and drag to select a different size. Makes sense to me, but I'm probably in a minority ;0) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 5 minutes ago, colindun said: For my usage in the situation I'm working in (annotating a web page design where I want all the captions and notes the same size and style), I'd want the default. No, you would want to use a couple of Paragraph or Character Styles. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 5 hours ago, colindun said: Thanks, but seems odd to me. If setting a default doesn't mean that it stays the default then having a save default function at all seems a bit pointless. It might be pointless if there was not a Revert Defaults option, but there is. Note that in all three Affinity apps you can customize the main toolbar to include a pair of Sync & Revert buttons, making it very easy to sync or revert whenever you want, even when there is a text cursor because you are in text edit mode. Because they are also menu commands, you can assign them keyboard shortcuts as well, but this has the disadvantage of limiting the available shortcuts to those that won't be interpreted as text input if you are in text edit mode. 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...
colindun Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 On 9/22/2021 at 2:47 PM, Old Bruce said: No, you would want to use a couple of Paragraph or Character Styles. Sometimes quick and straightforward is what I want, and setting up paragraph and character styles too time-consuming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colindun Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 Thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking into the text style options that R C-R suggested, and they look like the simplest solution for what I need just now, but I'll also look into the 'save as asset' options as well. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tart Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Hi! I have set defaults in my Affinity Publisher: Edit > Defaults > Save Is it possible to transform my defaults on other computer as well or I should set them again seperatly there? I work on multiple computers. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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