Improved Text Formatting/Spacing
In a text box that contains multiple paragraphs there is no way to increase the space between paragraphs or add a manual line break/space. This means each paragraph needs to be it's own text box, which doesn't really work well for many styles and is just a silly work flow.
More customization of text would make Spark a very useful tool, but without simple things like that and the ability to specify font size, I think I'll go back to Illustrator/Photoshop.
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MCRobinson2
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I am a fairly new Spark user, and when I discovered I couldn't enter manual line-breaks in my text, I figured I MUST be doing something wrong. I searched this issue, and the first request for this that I found was in a now closed post from 2017! The requests for it have been going for years, and I find it absurd that it wasn't a feature in version 1.0. There needs to be MUCH more control over text entry.
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Taylor
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I would really love to be able to specify what fonts I want to use when creating a presentation here. I like the options that are already available, but would like to be able to choose other fonts if I don't find the preset ones useful.
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Teja Karlapudi
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Why are you ignoring text spaces and line breaks in the design? Such a basic feature.
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skullforce
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I need negative tracking. it's part of the brand identity to have the font set with tight tracking. it looks so weird off-brand when the tracking is wrong
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WMP
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Totally agree with this. Not being able to add a blank line between is ridiculous and time consuming.
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Anonymous
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Can you please add secondary formatting for individual letters? I made an acrostic poem recently and it would have been useful to use the secondary style to highlight the first letter of each line.
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Anonymous
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**** Adobe. POOR paragraphing.
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Anonymous
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help to write letters without background
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Anonymous
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If you ad a special character on the line break, then use a secondary style and make it the same color as your background, it dissapears and then looks like a break space.
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Prince
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allow text styling in single text with different text size also
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MARVELLOUS MORALES
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Would be great If scroll Bar to change size, were changed by a numeric keyboard, would help to be more precise
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Stephen Summers
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I've used Spark a lot, and find these formatting issues a pain, but also find several things useful so I've found some workarounds while waiting for the Spark team to catch up with our wish list.
It's not elegant, but the only way I've found to add space between paragraphs in the same block is to hit the return key and add a special character like *, then hit return again. This will separate the paragraphs, but then you have the special character on a line by itself. Like I said, not elegant.
As far as formatting text, when I export this into a PDF, I use my Acrobat Pro to edit the text how I want. I can even remove the special character.
I hope we get these options permanently soon, but good luck to everyone in the meantime.
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Gareth
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Hi, I'm a bit lost here.. just using the space bar for more space between lines of words is not working for me online or on mobile app. Is there still not a way to separate groups of words in a text box..?
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Anonymous
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As we know in one complete sentence there are many things such as UNDERLINED words, HIGHLIGHTED words, BOLD words, ITALIC words. But sadly there's no option to do this. For e.g In a sentence I need to change Font of a particular word, to Highlight a particular word, or to Underline a particular word, to make Bold to a particular world. And also we can't choose different colours to different words in same sentences. These features are very important for me. Editing on an image with text then this feature required most. Again I am saying these all things is to be for every single Sentence. So that for every sentence we can customise it in different ways.
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Anonymous
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As we know in one complete sentence there are many things such as UNDERLINED words, HIGHLIGHTED words, BOLD words, ITALIC words. But sadly there's no option to do this. For e.g In a sentence I need to change Font of a particular word, to Highlight a particular word, or to Underline a particular word, to make Bold to a particular world. And also we can't choose different colours to different words in same sentences. These features are very important for me. Editing on an image with text then this feature required most. Again I saying these all things is to be for every single Sentence. So that for every sentence we can customise it in different ways.
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Anonymous
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Please allow breaks in text that are empty to show up in text boxes
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Shams Mehra
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It's nice to say this from an altruistic view, but in reality there are many cases where users need to edit PDFs and have no access to the original document. For example our users have to lodge amendments to submitted patent specifications that are only available in PDF format.
We used Nitro for a while, but the latest version of Acrobat Reader (XI), makes significant improvements on text/layout editing. For basic page manipulation (rearranging, collating etc), we use an email management software product call inMailX
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Klements
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I can only support what Marita Koivisto has suggested. Especially what the line spaceing in the minus range betifft. set to -10 or -25 or even -50 - these are settings I would need for modern typography and state of the art designs again and again. It is very intimate to move fonts easily into each other, especially when they are bold.
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Jonas_vdm
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So I get this app, this is not for professionals... But that is exactly what I'm looking for. We are a non profit organization with a few dozen satellite organizations who want to have the same quality of video as we do. Of course that is impossible, we don't have time to finish all those videos fro them so this app seemed very appealing: they'd just have to upload the video, put it in the template and done... But why can't I as a designer make any templates for video? Why can't I choose how big the logo is when I upload it in the last screen? Why can't I choose how big the text should be and where to put it, or at least create a few styles? Sorry for this long rant but we are working with the CC suite for already quite a while and I was hoping there would be some synergy between these two apps but there's none. I can't even upload a PSD file or use the font from adobe fonts...
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Anonymous
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Am I missing something? The admin comment on how to do this talks about the pencil where it lets you adjust spacing between lines, but I don't see that pencil or feature anywhere.