Chis Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Windows 10 : Working with Affinity Publisher and following the “text wrapping” tutorial I import an Affinity Photo file with a transparent background, and can see text through the transparent section, but when I wrap the section the text wraps round the whole file, not following the cut out shape, but as a square. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Peter C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Smith Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Hi Chis maybe you already solved the problem yourself as this thread is now two days old. I think in Publisher everything works fine. The Problem is with the imported Affinity Photo file. After some playing around with several solutions for transparencies in Affinity Photo I could find out wich ones would work for text wrap in Publisher. But first the possibilities that won't work What doesn't work is: New File > do not check "background transparent" > create new file > draw a path or shape > rasterize it > export as PNG, GIF, TIFF or safe as .afphoto. Open file > use normal layer masks for cutting out objects > save as PNG, GIF, TIFF (without layers) should work but not with an .afphoto file... What works is (allways set background to transparent when creating a new file): New File > create a shape or vector path > rasterize the layer with the object > export as PNG, GIF, TIFF or save as .afphoto New File > create a shape or vector path > export as PNG, GIF, TIFF or save as .afphoto Open File > use the "Pen Tool" to draw a vector path around the object you want to cut out > click "Mask" in the left corner of the context toolbar > safe as .afphoto Open File > use any selection too > create layer mask > "Rasterize", "Merge Down" or "Merge Visible" layer(s) > safe as afphoto I think for you could work the 4th solution. Text wrap works with (vector) shapes and vector paths, vector masks, raster images with true transparencies like GIF, TIFF (without layers), PNG and .afphoto files where masked layers are rasterized. Any mask layer active in the saved .afphoto file will interfere with the text wrap styles "Tight", "Inside" and "Edge". I Hope this will help. New Year's greetings John Chis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Hi Peter You need to make sure your text wrap option is set to tight otherwise the text swill wrap to the bounds of the entire document instead of the objects within it Thanks Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chis Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 Thanks, will re-check ad try again. Peter C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 15 hours ago, Chris_K said: You need to make sure your text wrap option is set to tight otherwise the text swill wrap to the bounds of the entire document instead of the objects within it I'm not sure I quite understand that, Chris. But I wanted to mention another report of transparency causing text wrapping to fail, in case it's related: -- 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...
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