Shivadas Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 Hi! I have a document with many different text layers in Designer — the text layers are grouped in various groups, some of them are not. I want to select all the text layers and change the type size for all of them, but wherever the text is grouped, it doesn't seem to resize it or change it at all the only way I can make it work is to select the actual text layers — and not the group. Any way this could be remedied (aside from styles which I'm aware of) Thanks! Quote
Guest Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 Hello Shivadas, Expand all the text layers you want to modify and select the texts with "Ctrl/Cmd", you can then make the desired changes. Quote
Shivadas Posted January 5, 2019 Author Posted January 5, 2019 Thanks! I did indeed do this, but would love to know in the future how you could do this more easily! A magic wand maybe, selecting all similar objects? Or group-property changing as it already does beautifully with color? Quote
Guest Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 If you select the texts on the drawing and not in the layer panel, you can modify the whole set at once. To be able to act on all layers, activate the "Activate all layers" button at the bottom left of the Layers tab. Quote
cleggwd Posted April 10, 2021 Posted April 10, 2021 I would also like this feature! I would like to be able to select the group in the layers panel and adjust the text inside the group. Quote
loukash Posted April 10, 2021 Posted April 10, 2021 8 hours ago, cleggwd said: I would like to be able to select the group in the layers panel and adjust the text inside the group New in v1.9.x: Select > Select Object > Art/Frame/Path Text Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
ZhangX Posted October 7, 2022 Posted October 7, 2022 On 1/5/2019 at 10:22 PM, Guest said: If you select the texts on the drawing and not in the layer panel, you can modify the whole set at once. To be able to act on all layers, activate the "Activate all layers" button at the bottom left of the Layers tab. I was not able to duplicate this behavior. If select text on the drawing, I got one text element selected and modified, not the whole set. On 4/10/2021 at 6:12 PM, loukash said: New in v1.9.x: Select > Select Object > Art/Frame/Path Text In this case all the text elements in the current document are selected, while I'm hoping to modify all the texts inside one group at a time. On 4/10/2021 at 9:20 AM, cleggwd said: I would also like this feature! I would like to be able to select the group in the layers panel and adjust the text inside the group. I would also like this feature! It's quite straight-forward in illustrator, I didn't expect the necessity of work-arounds on this. Sure I can add text elements one by one to a selection, but in academic reports there are usually tens if not hundreds of text elements within one group, I was not even able to show all of them on the layers panel at once. Quote
ZhangX Posted October 7, 2022 Posted October 7, 2022 I just realized if I double click into a group then I can select all the elements inside that group on that hierarchy level, then I can modify all the text within the selection at once. Still, it's a lot of sing and dance to modify a bunch of texts pre-defined within a group. Quote
Komatös Posted October 7, 2022 Posted October 7, 2022 @ZhangX With the help of text styles, adjustments could be made without having to open the group levels and then select the text levels. This would only be necessary if text layers had to be edited separately. Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194) Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.”
ZhangX Posted October 7, 2022 Posted October 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Komatös said: @ZhangX With the help of text styles, adjustments could be made without having to open the group levels and then select the text levels. This would only be necessary if text layers had to be edited separately. Thank you. But when I selected a group (with text and other elements) and then click Text Styles->(some text style)->Apply to Characters, nothing happens to the texts. I probably missed some steps, is there a video or documentation where I can learn more about this? Quote
Komatös Posted October 7, 2022 Posted October 7, 2022 Hi @ZhangX What if you choose Update "xxxxxx"? Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194) Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.”
ZhangX Posted October 10, 2022 Posted October 10, 2022 @Komatös The text styles work only when the components are selected, however I discovered that ctrl+drag could quickly pick these components, making it much easier now. Thanks. Quote
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