bgf Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 How do you change text direction in callouts? Thanks. bgf Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @bgf. Change in what way? Can you provide an example of what you want to accomplish, or expand your description a bit? (If it seems silly that I don't understand what seems to be a simple question, Callouts are just an object that you would put text on top of. Thus, whatever method you would use to "change text direction" elsewhere would work on a Callout, too. So there may be something unusual happening for you to need to ask ) 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
bgf Posted July 4, 2019 Author Posted July 4, 2019 I want to change the text direction in the attached callout, but can't find a way to do so. I want the text to run left to right, top to bottom as you would normally read text on the page of an American novel. I created a callout shape and then inserted text via the Frame Text Tool since I knew no other way to get text into the callout. Now I can't find a way to manipulate the text so that it reads left to right, top to bottom. I'd be most appreciative if someone can tell me how to do so. Thanks. Bryan Quote
Staff DWright Posted July 4, 2019 Staff Posted July 4, 2019 Attached is a short video showing how this can be done using the text frame rearranging text.mp4 Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 Thanks. I wondered if that was your situation. The problem you're having is that by rotating the object you also applied rotation to anything it contains, such as the Frame Text that you added. Try this: First, add a callout, which will have its usual orientation: Then, rotate it as you want: Then, before adding your text, you need to reset the rotation orientation of the callout. So, draw a rectangle over it with the rectangle tool: Finally, select both the rectangle and the callout in the Layers panel, and Intersect them using Layer > Geometry > Intersect from the menu or this Toolbar button: That will give you a Curve layer with the proper rotation orientation: Then add your Frame Text. (Or, @DWright 's way ) KimBooYork 1 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
carl123 Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 And, here's another way Create your callout and adjust it how you want itLayer > Convert to Text Frame Create a new text frame somewhere else on the page Drag it over your shape text and Pin it to the Shape text (See screenshot below) Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
bgf Posted July 5, 2019 Author Posted July 5, 2019 Thanks to the forum for all these great suggestions. Quote
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