Avoid tracking on the last letter

[aledel]

Hi, I just noticed that when you add any percentage of tracking to text element it automatically adds tracking on the last letter of the text, this behaviour is not wrong but is a little annoying for centered text compositions because the text with more tracking will be offset to the left. Here is comparison example between Photoshop and Designer behaviours.

 

The text background shows how the tracking works in affinity, I think that the photoshop behaviour is better in this case. Maybe this could be the default behaviour?

 

Thanks ;)

 

Note: When editing the text object, both photoshop and affinity behaves the same way, the difference (!important) is that affinity keeps the spacing on the last letter within the bounding box after editing.

[MEB]

Hi aledel, 

Thanks for your feedback. You can select the last letter and remove the tracking from it or avoid to select the last letter before applying the tracking. In any case i've raised this issue with the dev. responsible for the typography in Affinity.

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

[Dave Harris]

You're right. It also affects how text wraps, which can spoil .psd import. It'll be fixed in the next beta.

[aledel]

Hey MEB, thanks for the tip! it would be very time expensive to do this on several text elements though :/

Dave, great to know it would be implemented on the next version! :D

[Terentyev Publisher]

Eight years passed. Still not implemented?

[walt.farrell]

On 11/1/2023 at 8:17 AM, Terentyev Publisher said:

Eight years passed. Still not implemented?

Looks to me like it was implemented. If you're having a related problem, perhaps create a new topic and describe the problem, and provide screenshots and examples.