Jump to content
You must now use your email address to sign in [click for more info] ×

Exported font slice height


Recommended Posts

I have a series of words typed in Helvetica Light 36 px, and I want to export them all individually, each with a height of 36 px. The problem is the objects aren't 36 px height, they're 28, or 35, or whatever depending on the word, because that's how fonts work apparently. Because of this, when I select them all and do > Create Slice, it makes them of their respective sizes. I could manually drag and resize the slice height to 36 for each, but it's dozens of words, surely there's an easier way?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

You have to try if you can deal with that via making them Symbols, so that all object sizes are changed at once and when exporting as slices or layers would already have the right height.

☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan
☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If you mean you want each word to have the same height, you will have to do that manually, & if you do they probably will look wrong when compared one to another. That's because in typography there are several different typeface heights & their relative sizes may even change depending on point size.

See for example the Wikipedia x-height & overshoot articles for (much!) more about this.

This applies to Helvetica Light, as you can see in this Helvetica Light example.afdesign file. Note that Affinity apps will try to snap things like lines to the various heights too, & some of them can be very close to each other.

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

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Guidelines | We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.