Split long text into separate text boxes?

[cocoazenith]

Can this be done? 

 

I'm pasting a long text into a text box but want make a 3 column layout thus i need it to be split into three separate text boxes.

Right now i'm doing this the old fashioned way - manually by copying and pasting what doesn't fit in a text box to the other boxes...

 

chers!

 

 

[MEB]

Hi cocoazenith,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

Currently there's no other way of doing it. Affinity Designer/Photo are also not intended for heavy text/desktop publishing dependent projects. Affinity Publisher will fill that gap when available later.

 

[cocoazenith]

I might have exagerrated when i said long text. It's not that long - it's within 1/3 page at 8 pts weight.
It's just that i want to split it. Maybe the guys could add this in the future because it's useful

for stuff like website design or advert design.

[toltec]

44 minutes ago, MEB said:

Affinity Publisher will fill that gap when available later.

 

 

Much later ?  

[GuyMiklos]

... we are now in 2022 with version 2.0 of Affinity Publisher.  

I have 80 short paragraphs in a .txt file that would like to paste into AffPub or AffDes and have each paragraph in its own text frame.

Can this be done?

I wasn't able to work out how. 

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, GuyMiklos said:

I have 80 short paragraphs in a .txt file that would like to paste into AffPub or AffDes and have each paragraph in its own text frame.

Hmm, I don't think pasting/importing paragraphs from one text file and then as several text frames is actually supported somehow. - If you would have said instead, as several seperated artistic text lines, I could imagine some solution via using SVG text imports here, but definitely not as text frames. Since text frames aren't supported via SVG v1.1 and Affinity itself writes out/generates/exports it's text frames as single text lines to SVG.

As an example, the following SVG text line definitions, when opened/imported into an Affinity app, will give you 8 seperate artistic text line boxes ...

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <text x="20"  y="20">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr,</text>
    <text x="20"  y="40">sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat,</text>
    <text x="20"  y="60">sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.</text> 
    <text x="20"  y="80">Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</text> 
    <text x="20"  y="100">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore</text> 
    <text x="20"  y="120">et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.</text> 
    <text x="20"  y="140">Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</text>
    <text x="20"  y="180" >Example SVG text</text>
</svg>

• test.svg

[thomaso]

3 hours ago, GuyMiklos said:

I have 80 short paragraphs in a .txt file that would like to paste into AffPub or AffDes and have each paragraph in its own text frame.

It depends how you want the frames arranged. For instance APub (V1):

1 frame per page:

• Create a text frame (about the size for the longest paragraph).
• Place the entire text.
• With the Find & Replace panel replace every paragraph break with a frame break.
• Click the right text flow triangle with the shift key pressed.
• It will create the required number of new pages, each with 1 text frame with 1 paragraph.

Flexible number of frames:

• Create the layout of 80 text frames as you like them.
• Paste the text in the first frame.
• With the Find & Replace panel replace every paragraph break with a frame break.
• Click the text flow triangle for the 79 desired text flows.

You can combine this two workflows, for instance for a layout of 4 linked text frames per page + get the required 19 pages created automatically.