KCinA2 Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 I am trying to change a text box on my Affinity Designer document. When ever I try, the text stretches and/or changes size / shape. It there a key that I can hold down to keep text from changing size and only change the text frame? Please do tell! Quote
Dan C Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 Hi KCinA2, Welcome to the forums This depends on the tool used to insert the text, the Artistic Text Tool will always resize your text to the frame size, however with the Frame Text Tool you can reflow the text if you use the frame bounding box handles or scale it if you use the detached handle on the bottom right of the text frame. I hope this helps! thedivclass, xlynx, dstraigh and 2 others 4 1 Quote
KCinA2 Posted February 13, 2019 Author Posted February 13, 2019 Thank you. I created a new test box using the Frame Text Tool, and pasted the original text to the new box. Success! Dan C 1 Quote
Bri-Toon Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 On top of what Dan said, you can also convert artistic text to frame text. To do that, highlight the text and copy it, and then use any other tool to paste it. That will maintain the size of the artistic text in a frame. MmmMaarten, DavidGef and AdamRatai 3 Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day!
MmmMaarten Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 7 minutes ago, Bri-Toon said: On top of what Dan said, you can also convert artistic text to frame text. To do that, highlight the text and copy it, and then use any other tool to paste it. That will maintain the size of the artistic text in a frame. Niceone to know. Thanks for this tip! Bri-Toon 1 Quote
AdamRatai Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 Thanks for an answer. My question is: What kind of "artist" deforming font that way? That should not be allowed, or at least not as a default. I vote for renaming it to "Bad Artist Text Tool" ;). Carlsson and crusy 2 Quote
Bri-Toon Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 5 hours ago, AdamRatai said: Thanks for an answer. My question is: What kind of "artist" deforming font that way? That should not be allowed, or at least not as a default. I vote for renaming it to "Bad Artist Text Tool" ;). It's uncommon, but I personally find it very beneficial that way. I like to "start off" with the right size so I can see beforehand how it would match the design. But hey, everyone is different. 😊 AdamRatai 1 Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day!
AdamRatai Posted December 17, 2020 Posted December 17, 2020 Honestly, I remember times when I abused fonts this way. In this times I rarely merged words "back" and "pain" in one sentence ;). Bri-Toon 1 Quote
dinah Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 I am struggling to re size a text box - I have followed all suggestions but seems impossible - not a problem in quark Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 9 minutes ago, dinah said: I am struggling to re size a text box - I have followed all suggestions but seems impossible - not a problem in quark Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. It would help to have at least a screenshot of the complete application window, with the text visible on-screen and in the Layers panel. And more information on what steps you're taking to resize the box. A screen recording that shows the problem could also be useful if you can provide one. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
dinah Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 this is difficult to do as full of personal information but I think I have understood that if you set something up on a master page you cannot change it on subsequent pages - instead you have to set up a different master page or use a blank - is that correct? thanks for getting back Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 27 minutes ago, dinah said: I think I have understood that if you set something up on a master page you cannot change it on subsequent pages - instead you have to set up a different master page or use a blank - is that correct? No. You can always select the Master Page layer on the document page and use Edit Detached. 28 minutes ago, dinah said: this is difficult to do as full of personal information Can you replace the text with something that's not personal, and show us using that? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
crusy Posted January 4 Posted January 4 On 2/13/2019 at 6:13 PM, Bri-Toon said: On top of what Dan said, you can also convert artistic text to frame text. To do that, highlight the text and copy it, and then use any other tool to paste it. That will maintain the size of the artistic text in a frame. Does not work for me in v2.5.7 on Windows. That being said, a quick hint to anybody struggling with understanding text in AP: I am used to (an older version of) Photoshop and leave the text tool with CTRL+Enter. Turns out this transforms frame text to artistic text in AP without a hint besides a different (and very small, I have to add) icon in front of the text layer/group. Once this happens unnoticed there is no way to change it back. At least not for me, as above mentioned tip does not work for me. Quote
Brian_J Posted January 4 Posted January 4 17 minutes ago, crusy said: Does not work for me in v2.5.7 on Windows. That being said, a quick hint to anybody struggling with understanding text in AP: I am used to (an older version of) Photoshop and leave the text tool with CTRL+Enter. Turns out this transforms frame text to artistic text in AP without a hint besides a different (and very small, I have to add) icon in front of the text layer/group. Once this happens unnoticed there is no way to change it back. At least not for me, as above mentioned tip does not work for me. In the current beta (2.6), when editing text, CTRL-Enter has been changed to function more like it does in Photoshop. Quote CMD+Enter / Ctrl+Enter can now be used when actively editing text to "commit" the text input and switch to the selection tool, similar to other creative software. Any shortcut bound to this key combination (by default, Convert to Curves) will only be actioned when the user is not currently editing text input. Above info is from: Patrick Connor and crusy 2 Quote Windows 10 22H2, 32GB RAM | Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 (MSI/EXE)
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