Errol Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 When will we be able to use text functions in macros? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 What do you mean by a 'text function'? John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 I need to watermark stuff I send to Facebook with my name. In PS I would just use an F-key to invoke an action to put a text layer in so I could move it etc. Affinity tells me that I can not use a text function in a macro. My workaround is to put the text on a blank doc and copy and paste but that is slower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Thanks for the clarification. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 I haven't tried it myself, but this might help. Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 Using a brush might work but then I would have to change the brush back etc. When I'm working on 50+ files I would rather have a one key response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Hmm what's about reusing a ready made PNG one then, maybe you can use that together with a macro? - Meaning here to build up your signature text on a transparent background and store the whole as a PNG or GIF file, which you then try to reuse in a macro for sizing and positioning. In short instead of a text layer try to use an image/pixel layer. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 What I would like is to see Serif add the ability to make a text layer in macros they way I can in PS. Any chance of that in the next version? Your solution would work but I will stick with my workaround. Loading an Affinity file with the text layer. Copying the layer. Pasting it on my work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Can't tell you if "using text layers in macros" is actually a highly important point on the todo list of the devs for the next release version. So far I even don't know what their macros implementation generally can do here and what not, since the overall macro functionality of what is recordable and what not isn't documented at all yet. - In other words here, you have to ask the devs here, or hope that someone of them can tell you for sure. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 How do I contact the developers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 4 hours ago, Errol said: How do I contact the developers? It is best to post to the Feature Requests, Suggestions and Feedback forum, although they sometimes respond here in the Questions one. 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...
Errol Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 Not yet. Hollidays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 Just did. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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