jackhstephan Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 I am taking a pdf file of a map, and I am attempting to turn these polygons into text frames so that I can fill them with colored text to make a specific type of map. When I convert any of these polygons into text frames, the text I write is upside and mirrored (see picture). Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I am unable to simply crop a text frame to the shape because it is import that no text is cut off in the final product. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 If the original polygon is upside down, the resultant text frame will be upside down. Draw a rectangle on top, making sure that it completes covers the polygon, select both objects and click on the ‘Intersect’ icon in the Geometry section of the main toolbar. This will give you a new polygon of the correct shape but not flipped upside down, so when you convert it to a text frame the text will be the right way up. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 4 minutes ago, Alfred said: Draw a rectangle on top, making sure that it completes covers the polygon, select both objects and click on the ‘Intersect’ icon in the Geometry section of the main toolbar. Alternatively, draw a small rectangle which is completely enclosed by the polygon, select both objects and click on the ‘Add’ icon. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackhstephan Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 (edited) That is certainly the problem, and your solution works but it will be a tedious process for all the shapes I would need to do it on. Do you know if there is way to speed up the workflow or to ensure that the pdf is exported with the shapes in the proper orientation? I am exporting from QGIS I appreciate the help! Edit: I a referring to the first solution proposed Edited September 5, 2019 by jackhstephan To add punctuation and calrify Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 19 minutes ago, jackhstephan said: Do you know if there is way to speed up the workflow or to ensure that the pdf is exported with the shapes in the proper orientation. I am exporting from QGIS Does QGIS allow you to reverse the direction of the curves? That’s the only other way I can think of. Edit: On reflection(!) I don’t think that will work, since a reversed curve isn’t the same as a flipped curve. If the curves are all on the same page and non-overlapping you can ‘add’ them together, intersect with a covering rectangle and then ‘divide’ the result so that they’re all corrected in one fell swoop. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 I'm not normally keen on reviving such old threads, but I've just been trying to do this (flip a shape vertically) and the solution no longer seems to be working. Maybe I'm missing something or maybe something has changed in recent updates, but (hopefully) there must be some way to flip shapes, then convert them to text frames and get the text the right way up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: After playing around a bit more, I discovered that the layer order is important: the shape you want for the text box has to be on top. (As you normally add the "extra" shape on top, this means reversing the order of the layers.) I'm sure that the layer order didn't use to make any difference! I'll leave this here, just in case anyone else has a similar problem. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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