marcfrancois Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Maybe I didn't search well enough, but I can't find where to specify a number of columns in a text frame. Can someone help, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 27, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2018 Hi marcfrancois, Welcome to Affinity Forums Create a text frame (make sure it's selected) then look for the Columns control in the context toolbar almost at the right end. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcfrancois Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Hi Meb, thx for quick answer. I even didn't notice that a new(contextual) toolbar had appeared. Many thanks again! Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Also available in Text Frame palette in View>Studio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuando Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Multiple columns in affinity designer? I can't find the option… Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 As far as I know, Designer doesn't allow for columns in a text frame (yet); I've never seen the option myself. The discussion above is for Publisher, as far as I can tell. Fixx and Cuando 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuando Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 1 hour ago, GarryP said: As far as I know, Designer doesn't allow for columns in a text frame (yet); I've never seen the option myself. The discussion above is for Publisher, as far as I can tell. Thank you very much for the clarification GarryP. I hope it will be available in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcfrancois Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 Sorry, I meant Publisher, not Designer. My mistake comes from the resemblance between 'Designer' and 'InDesign', which Designer replaces very well, once you learnt where to find all the tools How can I close this ticket? Cuando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 2 hours ago, marcfrancois said: Sorry, I meant Publisher, Then, as a point of information, you asked in the wrong forum Publisher has its own set of forums. Cuando 1 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...
marcfrancois Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 On 11/28/2018 at 6:47 PM, walt.farrell said: Then, as a point of information, you asked in the wrong forum Publisher has its own set of forums. Yes, I saw that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polygonius Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 Hi marcfrancois, thanks for seeing the point! in the future jsut AP/AD/Apup... than a small qeustion-topic as head (not: hi, im new and have a question...) before the quest!ion subsummary Thank you! Quote OSX 12.5 / iMac Retina 27" / Radeon Pro 580X / Metall: on! --- WWG1WGA WW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdesigner Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 (edited) This is the mistake that Adobe makes and where Affinity could have a competitive edge - if it chooses not to follow Adobe's lead. The reality is most people designer posters and simple print pieces in Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer, not InDesign and Publisher. Those tools can be useful for very long documents like books and newspapers, but they're far too limiting to to be useful for most design. Text columns and threading aren't cumbersome or difficult tools to produce - just include them in the Designer application and you'll outcompete Adobe. Doing the same dumb things Adobe does (dividing up applications unnecessarily) isn't going to win converts. Forcing people to switch excessively between applications is a huge hassle. Serious designers need to mix and match textures, type and images seamlessly. Affinity Designer's superior raster and masking tools give it an advantage over Illustrator and it's why I'm giving it a chance. But finding out that Affinity is not following this strategy across the board makes me want to just back to Adobe products, since at least I know them already. Edited November 29, 2019 by robdesigner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 17 hours ago, robdesigner said: Forcing people to switch excessively between applications is a huge hassle. It isn't much of a hassle in the Affinity apps because the native file format makes converting anything to open it in one of the other apps unnecessary & almost seamless. It is even simpler for those of us that own all three apps & can take advantage of StudioLink in Affinity Publisher. Move Along People 1 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...
Sideshowlol Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 I agree about the hassle aspect of switching apps to add columns to a text block in Designer. Freehand was brilliant at this back in the day. Hope this functionality makes its way into Designer. AllAppsUser and Cuando 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sideshowlol Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 54 minutes ago, Sideshowlol said: I agree about the hassle aspect of switching apps to add columns to a text block in Designer. Freehand was brilliant at this back in the day. Hope this functionality makes its way into Designer. Interestingly, I can copy a text frame with columns from Publisher and paste it into Designer and the columns remain intact. So that's something. There are obviously no column-editing features in Designer yet though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 25 minutes ago, Sideshowlol said: Interestingly, I can copy a text frame with columns from Publisher and paste it into Designer and the columns remain intact. So that's something. There are obviously no column-editing features in Designer yet though. The file formats and objects are compatible among the 3 applications. Serif chooses what parts of the User Interface (UI) to make available in each application, based on what they think that users of the applications will need. Text Columns didn't exist in the applications before Publisher was released. It is possible that they will make their way into the UI for Designer, but it is also possible that with Publisher avaiable Serif will keep them exclusive to Publisher in the UI, feeling that anyone who needs that kind of text formatting should be using Publisher. At this point Designer is, I think, more intended for illustrators, and Publisher for users working with text. Remember, too, that with both Publisher and Designer installed you can work in Publisher and have one application that supports both functions via the Publisher and Designer Personas. 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...
Sideshowlol Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 3:18 PM, walt.farrell said: The file formats and objects are compatible among the 3 applications. Serif chooses what parts of the User Interface (UI) to make available in each application, based on what they think that users of the applications will need. Text Columns didn't exist in the applications before Publisher was released. It is possible that they will make their way into the UI for Designer, but it is also possible that with Publisher avaiable Serif will keep them exclusive to Publisher in the UI, feeling that anyone who needs that kind of text formatting should be using Publisher. At this point Designer is, I think, more intended for illustrators, and Publisher for users working with text. Remember, too, that with both Publisher and Designer installed you can work in Publisher and have one application that supports both functions via the Publisher and Designer Personas. Thanks for your thoughts, Walt. I get that. I assume it text column editing will appear in a future pleaser of Designer. I have been in this game for a few years now. To date, Designer still lacks a lot of the functionality of apps from the dim and distant past, such as Freehand (which I've already mentioned and which was also ahead of Illustrator in terms of multi-page layouts and text editing functionality). If I could have Freehand's text editing features with all the modern benefits of Affinity Designer and a modern Mac, I would be a happy bunny. I live in hope as Serif have done a great job to date. AllAppsUser 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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