Global Colours unavailable as text frame fill or stroke.

[MichaelG]

Affinity Publisher for Windows V1.7.2.471 on Windows 10.

When creating a new document with Publisher, I start by creating a few Global Colours, some process colours and some spot colours.

I now create a text frame, and I want to fill it with a colour from my swatches. But when I open the Text Frame studio and click either the fill or stroke, I am not offered "swatches" as a option. I only get the various sliders, HSL colour wheel etc.

This is a quite serious omission, as many projects need the text frame fill and/or stroke to be one of the "corporate" spot colours, or a tint thereof.

As a workaround, I found that I can create a rectangle with the rectangle tool, fill it with the required spot colour, and then convert it to a text frame. However even when I do that, the colour is converted from a genuine spot colour to a CMYK mix. Therefore if I was creating a document with a view to printing with just two plates, say a spot colour and black, then I've just blown it. This of course, will increase the cost of the job when printing litho.

I suppose one way around this would be to create a rectangle with the required spot colour fill, and then lay a transparent text frame on top of it. But this would be very tedious.

So, it would be great if the team would consider allowing anything in the document swatch list to be used as a fill/stroke for a text frame.

Thank you,
Mike G.

P.S. I think that the text frame studio would make a very useful addition to Designer.

 

[carl123]

In the Text Frame Studio, when you click on Fill, switch to the Swatches Tab and you should see your global colours there

[MichaelG]

Ooops! Thank you Carl123. I didn't notice the Swatches or Gradient tabs. (Should've gone to Specsavers!) Thanks for sorting this out for me.

Kind Regards,
Mike.