Daniel Gibert Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 I'm working on a catalog that make use of tab stops a lot. I have created a paragraph style with all the tab stops needed. Great. But now i have a paragraph that need to have a new tap stop at the beginning of the line. To my surprise, Publisher don't let me add a tab stop lower than the higher already existing. if i enter the measure manually, it jumps to the automatically added value. If I decrease the measure clicking the arrows or with the mouse wheel, only goes down to the value of the higher tab. How can I add a smaller tab to a paragraph then? This means that i need to recreate all tabs in crescent order from scratch or modify all tabs values already existing. Does not make sense. Steps to reproduce: Create a paragraph Create some tab stops in the tabs panel, let's say: 10mm, 25mm, 50mm and 78mm Now try to create a tab stop at 13 mm. Impossible. Only let you create tabs 78mm or bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Very odd, but if you can move the existing tab stops then there is a simple (albeit tedious!) workaround: change the 25 mm tab stop to 13 mm, the 50 mm stop to 25 mm, and the 78 mm stop to 50 mm, and then add a new tab stop at 78 mm to replace the one that you moved. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Daniel Gibert said: How can I add a smaller tab to a paragraph then? This means that i need to recreate all tabs in crescent order from scratch or modify all tabs values already existing. Indeed strange UI. – The quickest workaround seems to be using a text frame: Click in the text frame ruler to create an additional tab between existing tabs. The new tab will be sorted in the list accordingly. Another oddity of setting tabs: They may be set with default property only: Always left aligned & without a tab stop leader. No way to create right aligned tabs directly. There is also no way to copy existing tabs to avoid this need of property adjustment afterwards. And a gimmick: Click on the alignment and leader icons to change their background colour (as if de-activated), maybe to look more friendly? When I leave they turn back to their natural black. Daniel Gibert 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Gibert Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 53 minutes ago, thomaso said: Indeed strange UI. – The quickest workaround seems to be using a text frame: Click in the text frame ruler to create an additional tab between existing tabs. The new tab will be sorted in the list accordingly. Didn't though about using the text frame ruler. Certainly is serves me well to solve the issue. Thanks!. Anyway, the issue is still there. A weird tabs panel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted August 14, 2020 Staff Share Posted August 14, 2020 Hi all Sorry for the delayed reply. Issue logged. thomaso and Daniel Gibert 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lannoy Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 The tabs panel shows 9 available tabs. The present job I'm working on has a 12 tab requirement. How can I make more tabs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 18 minutes ago, Lannoy said: The tabs panel shows 9 available tabs. The present job I'm working on has a 12 tab requirement. How can I make more tabs? What "tabs panel"? In the Tabs section of the Paragraph Panel you can click the + to create tabs (seems to be unlimited) and scroll through the list (limited to display 8 at a time). Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 @Lannoy's recent issue apparently got posted a second time in the beta forum (with further discussion). Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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