Jonopen Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Maybe this is in the pipeline with Affinity Publisher, but something I frequently seem to need is the ability give frame text a solid background colour. I currently do this by grouping a filled rectangle with the frame text in the layers panel. This works well until you apply a transparency which is also then applied to the text as well. So my request is to have the ability to change the formatting of frame text including the background (including transparency) and line style. It would also be useful for alignment purposes to have the option to see the frame of the frame text when viewing in Outline view mode when not selected. Quote v2.4.1 Designer/Photo/Publisher | Mac mini (M1, 2020) | Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 You can set the background colour of Frame Text in the Character panel Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted April 30, 2018 That option only fills the background behind the letters not the whole frame. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 So it does But nothing a little jiggery pokery can't resolve It even scales perfectly using the extended bottom right node (or whatever it is we call that now) Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 1 hour ago, Jonopen said: I frequently seem to need is the ability give frame text a solid background colour. I currently do this by grouping a filled rectangle with the frame text in the layers panel. This works well until you apply a transparency which is also then applied to the text as well. I think that happened because you put the rectangle above the text. Simply drag the rectangle below the text, as you had in your top example, and then the opacity change will affect only the background color. 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...
Staff MEB Posted April 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted April 30, 2018 1 hour ago, carl123 said: So it does But nothing a little jiggery pokery can't resolve It even scales perfectly using the extended bottom right node (or whatever it is we call that now) That only works for very specific cases. Drag the text frame so the text splits into a second line or change the leading of two lines and the limitations will become obvious. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted April 30, 2018 Hi Jonopen, In your second example you clipped the text inside the rectangle. Changing the opacity of the rectangle will affect both since the text is "inside" the rectangle., but if you use the Opacity slider in the Colour panel for the colour of the rectangle itself it will not affect the text and you can keep the text clipped inside the rectangle. Jonopen 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonopen Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 Thanks MEB, that's great news to hear. I'll give that a try tomorrow. Thanks also to Carl and Walt for taking the trouble to look into this too. Quote v2.4.1 Designer/Photo/Publisher | Mac mini (M1, 2020) | Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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