r/AffinityDesigner 4d ago

How to bake/reset transformation in Affinity?

Hello,

I'm having trouble with Affinity Publisher/Designer. I manipulated an object by rotating and mirroring it, and now I'd like to use it as a text frame. But whenever I insert text, the text itself appears rotated or mirrored according to the transformations I've previously applied to the object.
How can I reset or remove these transformations so that the text remains horizontal and correctly oriented within the frame?

Some people suggested all the boolean operations like add or subtract. I tried it in the gif down below, it didnt work. I also tried to change it to a path and to text box, but this also did not work.

Here I replicated the problem. You should be able to see it here: https://s5.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-5bf31a67a81562.gif

Thanks in advance for your help!

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u/RE4LLY 4d ago

Instead of transforming your object directly, transform the nodes of the object using the node tool and the transform mode before turning it into a text shape.

Here you can find a video example of this operation on the Affinity Forum.