walt.farrell Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Thanks for that clarification, @Leo1. It helps me understand what you meant. And no, those boxes aren't new. They've been there for a long time. 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...
Leo1 Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 4 hours ago, NNN said: This way you can lost all local formating (bold, italic...). Yes, but in my workflow, I import the pdf and need to have the unformatted text. I copy it for instance the text to PowerPoint, and there I do the formatting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo1 Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 4 hours ago, walt.farrell said: And no, those boxes aren't new. They've been there for a long time. I never noticed the boxes although I spent a lot of time, on trying to solve the problems. In addition I have searched the Internet and the Affinity forum and looking at a lot of Youtube movies. @walt.farrell Anyhow I am glad it is solved, and I have also found the boxes. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. C. Schletty Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 The ability to merge different text frames into a single text frame has existed in Adobe Illustrator for decades. How is it that Affinity missed this basic function in Designer? In Adobe Illustrator, you can select text objects, copy, draw a text frame and paste. Voila. All text combined into a single frame. Sometimes, you have to manually add returns after each paragraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 13 minutes ago, R. C. Schletty said: The ability to merge different text frames into a single text frame has existed in Adobe Illustrator for decades. How is it that Affinity missed this basic function in Designer? In Adobe Illustrator, you can select text objects, copy, draw a text frame and paste. Voila. All text combined into a single frame. Sometimes, you have to manually add returns after each paragraph. As a work arround you can Copy/Paste the text into Word and then Copy/Paste it into a text frame in Publisher or Designer and Photo. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 2 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said: As a work arround you can Copy/Paste the text into Word and then Copy/Paste it into a text frame in Publisher or Designer and Photo. There's an easier way in Publisher. Link all the text frames, delete all but the last one, and then resize the first to the desired size. You will likely need to add returns to separate the combined text but that's easy. Petar Petrenko 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 The problem with the linking text frames method is that you lose the look of the original content because all the spacing between the frames gets lost. A nicer way might be to export the selected text frames as a PDF and then open that PDF with "Group lines of text into text frames" selected. Then copy the required text frame back into the original document. Quote Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinoYarov Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Hello, I'm not sure if a solution was reached in this trail, if not, this may help. You can select the option to have to group (combine) text frames when you open the file. Please check printscreen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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