Minor Bug in Online Help for Spot Colours

[Alfred]

In the Help pages it says

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A spot colour swatch is indicated by a small dot in the bottom-right corner of its colour swatch.

The first occurrence of the word “swatch” should be removed.

Here’s a link to the Publisher help topic (but the same error occurs in the corresponding pages for Photo and Designer):
https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Clr/spotClr.html?title=Spot colours

[Alfred]

This is still not fixed twenty-one months later. Perhaps not surprising, since it obviously wasn’t logged when I reported it!

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

This is still not fixed twenty-one months later. Perhaps not surprising, since it obviously wasn’t logged when I reported it!

Didn't you post that in the timeframe when Serif asked users to re-post if their post hadn't been answered, as they lost track of some in the 1.9 flurry of problems?

I would make a new report, in the current Bugs topic  

(But possibly you could Report your own post here, to get their attention.)

[Alfred]

23 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Didn't you post that in the timeframe when Serif asked users to re-post if their post hadn't been answered, as they lost track of some in the 1.9 flurry of problems?

That’s entirely possible, Walt! Thanks. I obviously lost track myself.

23 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I would make a new report, in the current Bugs topic

Done.

[thomaso]

On 3/3/2020 at 6:10 PM, Alfred said:

The first occurrence of the word “swatch” should be removed.

Why the first ? To me it is rather the repeated, second swatch that is redundant, especially since the sentence starts with the swatch icon it describes.

[Alfred]

Just now, thomaso said:

Why the first ? To me it is rather the repeated, second swatch that is redundant, especially since the sentence starts with the swatch icon it describes.

I was referring only to the word “swatch”, not a phrase such as “of its colour swatch” which includes that word. Removing the first occurrence of the word changes the sentence from

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A spot colour swatch is indicated by a small dot in the bottom-right corner of its colour swatch.

to

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A spot colour is indicated by a small dot in the bottom-right corner of its colour swatch.

which would correctly convey the information that a swatch with a small dot in the corner represents a spot colour.

[thomaso]

29 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I was referring only to the word “swatch”, not a phrase such as “of its colour swatch”

I know. But I did. It just sounds more clear + compact to me without the repeated "swatch" + the actually redundant "of its colour". – Compare:

  A spot colour swatch is indicated by a small dot in the bottom-right corner.

  A spot colour is indicated by a small dot in the bottom-right corner of its colour swatch.

[Alfred]

52 minutes ago, thomaso said:

I know. But I did. It just sounds more clear + compact to me without the repeated "swatch" + the actually redundant "of its colour". – Compare:

  A spot colour swatch is indicated by a small dot in the bottom-right corner.

  A spot colour is indicated by a small dot in the bottom-right corner of its colour swatch.

The dot is part of the swatch. It doesn’t indicate a colour swatch, it indicates a spot colour.

The repeated word “colour” is actually the redundant word. It would be more concise, and just as precise, to say:

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A spot colour is indicated by a small dot in the bottom right-hand corner of its swatch.

 

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

It doesn’t indicate a colour swatch, it indicates a spot colour.

It indicates a special type of swatches: it simply indicates a spot color swatch.

The color itself has no indicator, it is the swatch only which got it. You never can recognize a spot color in the layout window, same for the overprint property. Whereas you can recognize e.g. a color's opacity in the layout (with an object underneath).

To identify a spot or overprint property of an object's color you need to see the swatch or color panel. That makes this indicators being parts of the swatch or color panel, while this properties are parts of the color.

Actually it doesn't matter because it doesn't lead to a misunderstanding or wrong handling. It even could work if the help would just say, regardless of grammar or mathematical correctness:  "bottom left triangel = global color …

bottom right circle = spot color