sbonsell71 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I use this feature a lot and have never understood how it works - help section provides no useful answers. What is the significance of the Red, orange, green triangles? I have tried to work it out many times and every single time I think I have a theory it confounds me. Thanks for any help Just tried to look at it again. Makes no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Have you looked at the Text on a Path help topic, and specifically the subtopic "Modifying Path Text"? It explains those triangles and what they do. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbonsell71 Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 Hi Walt - yes, I have - but when things go wrong (e.g. when experimenting/editing, particularly when changing text size) the Help topics just don't work. Most of the time I just re-draw the line and re-write the entire text. Occasions when, for example, there appears to be two of each triangle on one line - with no identifier as to which triangles are linked to which text , just trial and error, moving one triangle and seeing what happens to the text. I guess that whenever I see help files that only discuss one, simple, example I'm suspicious of the function's capability .. Some work I'm doing this morning ... Screenshot 1 I want to push the text along the line - about 5mm. So my intuition is to use the green arrow which will move it along 5mm. You can see at the end of the line (the orange arrow) shows that a 5mm move should NOT push the text over the end of the line. Screenshot 2 Simply by selecting the green arrow and moving it 1mm Screenshot 2 happens: I now have two green arrows, two red arrows, the text is upside down and no amount of trying different techniques achieves what I wanted to do. So, I will just do it again from scratch. That doesn't make for good workflow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Thanks for the screenshots. The inversion of the text should mean that you moved it too far, and went beyond the end of the path, so it flowed around onto the other side. But I can't explain it any further without actually having your .afdesign file. I agree that from screenshot 1 simply moving the green triangle 1mm should not have done that, so something else is involved that can't be seen from the screenshot alone. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 12, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 12, 2019 Hi sbonsell71, I've reproduced this behaviour here and will pass this to the dev team (seems it swaps the start/end markers for no reason). Thanks for reporting it. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 I believe this is a known bug that has been fixed in the current Publisher beta for 1.7.3. It will be fixed in Designer too, when that gets updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 12, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 12, 2019 It's indeed fixed in Affinity Publisher 1.7.3.475. Thanks Dave. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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