andreimarchenko Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Hi, team. On attached screenshot you can see word "HIERARCHY" with diagonal line on top. Tell me, please, how i can split "HIERARCHY" word by this diagonal line? Best, Andrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Select the backslash and alter the baseline an vertical scale Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 If this is going on a white or solid coloured background, you can just colour the stroke to the colour of the background. If you want this to be a able to go onto gradient or textured backgrounds you can convert the text to curves create two strokes and boolean subtract each stroke from each letter usingLayer > Geometry > Subtract Forgot to add you need to expand the strokes of the dividing line using Layer > Expand Stroke Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreimarchenko Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 2 minutes ago, HVDB Photography said: Select the backslash and alter the baseline an vertical scale Thanks, mate. But you got me wrong. I mean how i slice this word by this line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 I know of one way, I don't know if there are better ways... 1. Create the text; 2. Layer -> Convert to curves; 3. Layer -> Ungroup; 4. Layer -> Expand stroke; 5. Create the line; 6. Give the line a small stroke width; 7. Layer -> Expand stroke; 8. Duplicate the expanded-stroke line; 9. Change the fill colour of the expanded stroke line (makes later steps easier); Repeat steps 8 & 9 if you need to cut through more than two letters (e.g total of three lines for three letters). 10. De-select everything; 11. Select a letter to cut; 12. Shift+Select a line (any will do); 13. Layer -> Geometry -> Divide; 14. Locate and delete all the bits of the now divided line (easier to do when they're coloured differently). After dividing the letter you might get the situation where a hole in the letter has become filled. In these cases, select both the letter and 'hole' and use the Layer -> Geometry -> Subtract function to remove the hole. Repeat steps 10-14 for each extra letter to be cut. There could be quicker methods but it's not much work to do for a one-off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreimarchenko Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 Guys, who knows the simple way like in Ai at this video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 I don't think Designer can work quite that way yet but I'd be happy to be proved wrong. Have you tried the method I posted a few minutes ago? It's a bit long but it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Another less-destructive method I've just though of is to get two copies of the text and put one copy into each of two colourless layers. Open the attached file and try moving something to get the idea. split.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 andreimarchenko and GarryP 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 The Affinity Designer roadmap includes a Knife Tool - in the Illustration & Design section - so that might be something that's coming soon. (I didn't read the 73 pages of replies to find out any more info'.)@firstdefence Thanks for posting that video; always good to get another method/feature to try out. andreimarchenko 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreimarchenko Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 12 minutes ago, GarryP said: The Affinity Designer roadmap includes a Knife Tool - in the Illustration & Design section - so that might be something that's coming soon. (I didn't read the 73 pages of replies to find out any more info'.)@firstdefence Thanks for posting that video; always good to get another method/feature to try out. Thanks for your research, mate! Glad to read this information but this info from 2014 as i can see and still nothing about this Knife Tool Somebody asked the same question about Knife Tool a week ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 You're welcome. Some of the geometry tools already basically do what I would expect from a Knife Tool - Subtract and Divide can both 'cut' through shapes - so fingers crossed for something in 1.7. (In the meantime, I like the method that firstdefence posted.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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