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Hi,

More than simple lines and boxes, I like to highlight a heading (section title) with a graphic background. For example, a long brush stroke crossing the full width of the page:

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Maybe this can be implemented in the paragraph style editor, in a future version?

Paolo

 

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If you have such a graphic from somewhere, even another application, you can easily add it to a page using File > Place.

If you want to draw such a graphic, you can already do that if you own Photo or Designer, using the brushes that are available in the Photo or Designer Persona.

If you don't have Photo or Designer available, and thus do not have their Personas available in Publisher, I think what you're really asking for is for Publisher to have its own brushes.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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16 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

If you have such a graphic from somewhere, even another application, you can easily add it to a page using File > Place.

Placing this type of decoration under a paragraph once or a few times in a short publication is not a major problem – apart for having to realign everything in case some text is added or removed, and all the elements are reflown.

Having it as a decoration for a recurring structural element, like a heading, in a long publication (think to a magazine or a manual) implies much more work. So much, I would say, to make it impossible in a typical tight deadline.

Having it as a design element of a paragraph style would let one import the decoration once, and let Publisher automatically add it to all the paragraphs with that particular style.

Paolo

EDIT: I see I didn't give enough elements to make my request clear. I've just tried to add them.

 

Posted

Thank you for that clarification.

So, more of a kind of decoration like the Paragraph panel offers. Yes, that would be useful.

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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