no TEXT icon

[chuckg5]

just downloaded afinity for windows 10 and am following the tutorials.  Great stuff.  but

on the left side of tools there is no 'text' icon for putting in text.  is there a trick i'm missing?

many thanks

  chuckg

[Patrick Connor]

chuckg,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums. We sell 2 products Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. Make sure you are watching the tutorial for the one that you have. If you are, then make sure you are in the correct persona (button at the top) for example file types like RAW photos open in a develop persona that is appropriate to the sort of things you do with raw files, and they do not need the text button in that persona.

[chuckg5]

Hi, Patrick.

thank you.  i downloaded affinity Photo , complete 2 nites ago.  but in the left tool bar, i have everything but the text icon.

i tried different 'persona s but no text icon. please,  where do i go for this?

thank you

chuckg

[carl123]

The Text icon is near the bottom of the Tools panel.  It's possible your screen resolution is set too low and thus not showing the bottom of the Tools panel

Goto ...

View > Customise Tools

and near the bottom left of the screen change the number of columns to 2 and click Close.

Then check if you can see the Text icon

If you still have trouble please upload a screenshot with Affinity Photo open on your computer

[chuckg5]

Carl123

  that was it exactly.  now i've got to adjust resolution screen big enough to see normal text, ( i'm in my upper 60's)

but small enough to get all of
Affinity icons into the screen.   so far I can not change the "1" setting in display to 2.   working on that one. have windows 10

many thanks for the help.        chuckg

[GaryLearnTech]

When you're in View > Customise Tools… mode, your tools display will change to something like the screenshot below.  (On my Mac, I've deliberately made my window very small for this - yours will look slightly different, but the left hand region should be similar.)  The Number Of Columns setting is in the lower left corner, as highlighted:

 

 

After setting your new view, click the Close button that is located to the right of the columns pop-up menu.

 

Cheers,
Gary

[R C-R]

41 minutes ago, chuckg5 said:

so far I can not change the "1" setting in display to 2.

I am not sure if this will work or if it is a Mac only thing, but if the problem is the popup selector for the number of columns is inaccessible because it is off-screen like some of the tool icons, try unchecking "Dock Tools" in the View menu & then click on "Customize Tools ..." below that in the same menu.

[chuckg5]

Thanks, RC R

that split the tool bar into 2 columns showing the rest of the lost icons. i then went back to personalize windows and increased the size back to where its big enough to

comfortably see!

   GARY.... going your suggested way did not open up that window of columns choice at least not in windows 10.  thanks for kicking in, thou