wolfmanbass Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 I have created a rectangle with a red fill I have used the text frame tool to place some text inside of it How do i change the background color of the rectangle? In publisher i would use the Text Frame properties in Studio.... but can't find it. I'm sure i'm just missing something. Quote
R C-R Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 If you are asking how to open the Text Frame Studio panel in Affinity Publisher, select it in the View > Studio submenu, or with the text frame selected with the Move Tool, click on the Text Frame button in the context toolbar. If you can't see the button, the workspace window may be too narrow to show it. If so, click on the button at the right edge of the context toolbar to pop up a small menu with the button on it. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
wolfmanbass Posted July 13, 2019 Author Posted July 13, 2019 Just now, R C-R said: If you are asking how to open the Text Frame Studio panel in Affinity Publisher, select it in the View > Studio submenu, or with the text frame selected with the Move Tool, click on the Text Frame button in the context toolbar. If you can't see the button, the workspace window may be too narrow to show it. If so, click on the button at the right edge of the context toolbar to pop up a small menu with the button on it. I'm using Designer.... I can't find the equivalent option. I know how to change it in Publisher, but not in Designer. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 It sounds like you might have turned the rectangle into a Text Frame, rather than simply placing Frame Text inside the rectangle. If you start with a rectangle, then you have two possibilities: If you click on it with the Frame Text Tool, the rectangle becomes a Text Frame, and you lose control over the stroke and fill of that Text Frame because Designer does not have the Text Frame studio panel. Or, If you click and drag within the rectangle using the Frame Text Tool, you will create a Text Frame on top of the rectangle. The rectangle remains a rectangle, and you retain control over its stroke and fill. 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
wolfmanbass Posted July 13, 2019 Author Posted July 13, 2019 7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: It sounds like you might have turned the rectangle into a Text Frame, rather than simply placing Frame Text inside the rectangle. If you start with a rectangle, then you have two possibilities: If you click on it with the Frame Text Tool, the rectangle becomes a Text Frame, and you lose control over the stroke and fill of that Text Frame because Designer does not have the Text Frame studio panel. Or, If you click and drag within the rectangle using the Frame Text Tool, you will create a Text Frame on top of the rectangle. The rectangle remains a rectangle, and you retain control over its stroke and fill. Thanks, I wanted to change it to a Text Frame, but surely you should be able to edit it, if you can't edit it then it should just remove all the fills and style's. Is this how it is meant to work? Or have they just 'forgotten' to include a way to edit it. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 17 minutes ago, wolfmanbass said: Thanks, I wanted to change it to a Text Frame, but surely you should be able to edit it, if you can't edit it then it should just remove all the fills and style's. Is this how it is meant to work? Or have they just 'forgotten' to include a way to edit it. It's unclear. In 1.6, when you converted a shape to a Text Frame, you lost the stroke and fill completely. Users complained about that. So, in 1.7, when you convert a shape to a Text Frame, you do not lose the stroke and fill. And now users complain that they can't edit the stroke or fill. I think it might have been an intentional change, but it's possible it's a bug. I don't recall if anyone from Serif has commented about this. The lack of the Text Frame panel is, I think, intentional. But again, only Serif would know and I don't know if they've commented. But for now, if you want to be able to edit the stroke and fill of Frame Text in Designer, you do that by putting a shape behind the Text Frame. That aspect has not changed from 1.6; it was required then, too. 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
wolfmanbass Posted July 13, 2019 Author Posted July 13, 2019 5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: It's unclear. In 1.6, when you converted a shape to a Text Frame, you lost the stroke and fill completely. Users complained about that. So, in 1.7, when you convert a shape to a Text Frame, you do not lose the stroke and fill. And now users complain that they can't edit the stroke or fill. I think it might have been an intentional change, but it's possible it's a bug. I don't recall if anyone from Serif has commented about this. The lack of the Text Frame panel is, I think, intentional. But again, only Serif would know and I don't know if they've commented. But for now, if you want to be able to edit the stroke and fill of Frame Text in Designer, you do that by putting a shape behind the Text Frame. That aspect has not changed from 1.6; it was required then, too. Thanks for the clarification. I thought it worked differently before. walt.farrell 1 Quote
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