Boz Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Hi All, I've looked all over, but can't find any way to do this in Affinity Designer. I'm hoping there's something I'm just missing which someone can point me to... I have this banner I've created in Affinity Designer for a website (see below). I'd simply like to give it a slight curve rather than have it straight as it currently is. Looking around, it's clear that there is no 'distribute on a path' or transform mesh type option, but there must be some way to do this isn't there? Many thanks Boz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 26, 2017 Staff Share Posted July 26, 2017 Hi Boz, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Assuming you text remains editable, you have applied layer effects (FX) to it and want to keep everything editable, create a curved path with the Pen Tool, change to the Artistic Text Tool and place the cursor over the path (it will change to a "T" with a wave below) then type the same text. Select your original (straight) text object, go to menu Edit ▸ Copy, then select the (curved) text you just write and go to menu Edit ▸ Paste Style. jer 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boz Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 That's the thing - it's not text. The original was hand drawn for the client and I used the pen tool to recreate it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 26, 2017 Staff Share Posted July 26, 2017 Hi Boz, If you have Affinity Photo you can open the afdesign file there and use the Mesh Warp Tool to distort it. In Designer there's no way to distort shapes (or images) other than editing the shapes/nodes directly. We already have a Mesh warp/distort tool in Designer's roadmap so hopefully this will become easier later. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXeQiEl Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 had this same question. i'm translating a gameboard instruction manual, and wanted to give a text some curvature. will try this. thought it would be easier... thanks anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXeQiEl Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 worked like a charm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.