MartinHH Posted November 9, 2018 Posted November 9, 2018 Hi there, from Indesign I am used to set background color to text boxes. I haven't found this in Affinity Publisher yet. I can do that with image boxes, but is it also possible with text boxes? Is it still possible to turn a text box into an image box afterwards, and vice versa? Thanks a lot! BR Martin
A_B_C Posted November 9, 2018 Posted November 9, 2018 Open View > Studio > Text Frame and adjust the fill.
MickRose Posted November 9, 2018 Posted November 9, 2018 For backgrounds and frame borders: View/Studio/Text Frame Not too sure about text box/image box conversions. Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM
A_B_C Posted November 9, 2018 Posted November 9, 2018 While a picture frame can be converted to a shape text frame, a text frame cannot be converted to a picture frame.
MartinHH Posted November 9, 2018 Author Posted November 9, 2018 Thanks a lot for your help! Cheers Martin
MartinHH Posted November 9, 2018 Author Posted November 9, 2018 Maybe that could be an additional item on a whish-list? 1 minute ago, A_B_C said: While a picture frame can be converted to a shape text frame, a text frame cannot be converted to a picture frame.
fde101 Posted November 9, 2018 Posted November 9, 2018 That and back to a simple shape would be nice too. I think you can convert to curves right now but that's about it.
jlhopes Posted November 9, 2018 Posted November 9, 2018 I too was trying to figure this out, so it's good to know about the Text Frame panel. However, there are still some limitations here. In InDesign, we can apply opacity and other effects to the whole object, or to just the text, fill, or stroke. It's a very useful feature, and prevents us having to create separate text frames and background shapes behind them. alang 1
alang Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 it would be fantastic to be able to make the background different sizes, like a .125" padding or something like that
Old Bruce Posted November 12, 2018 Posted November 12, 2018 On 11/10/2018 at 2:40 PM, alang said: it would be fantastic to be able to make the background different sizes, like a .125" padding or something like that You can set the offset for the text in top/bottom/left/right using the Text Frame studio Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Dave Harris Posted November 13, 2018 Posted November 13, 2018 On 11/9/2018 at 7:10 PM, jlhopes said: I too was trying to figure this out, so it's good to know about the Text Frame panel. However, there are still some limitations here. In InDesign, we can apply opacity and other effects to the whole object, or to just the text, fill, or stroke. It's a very useful feature, and prevents us having to create separate text frames and background shapes behind them. You can apply opacity to the whole object via the Layers panel, or just to the frame fill and stroke with the Transparency tool or the Text Frame panel. And each colour has its own opacity too.
jlhopes Posted November 13, 2018 Posted November 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Dave Harris said: You can apply opacity to the whole object via the Layers panel, or just to the frame fill and stroke with the Transparency tool or the Text Frame panel. And each colour has its own opacity too. Thank you, that's good to know -- coming from InDesign, I wouldn't have known to use the Transparency tool.
MartinHH Posted November 13, 2018 Author Posted November 13, 2018 Great hints coming on this question! Thanks a lot! BR Martin
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