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in iPad Photo, I have Opened a PDF created on the same iPad in Pages. It’s a simple, 1-page PDF I created to learn what Photo can do with PDFs opened in it.

In the screen capture, it shows an active object. I can change the. object’s fill color, but not its stroke. Granted, both Color circles in the color picker are circles, as opposed to a Circle (for Fill) and a Ring (for stroke).

Is there a way to alter just the stroke? Thank you for any clues.

 

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26 minutes ago, Dan C said:

Is it possible to provide a copy of this PDF document so that we can investigate further?

Affinity Photo on iPad doesn't have any functions that deal with an object's stroke, does it, Dan? I don't think you can even create a stroke on shapes you create in Photo, like Rectangles. On the iPad you only seem to have control over the Fill, unless you're using Designer.

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

Affinity Photo on iPad doesn't have any functions that deal with an object's stroke, does it, Dan? I don't think you can even create a stroke on shapes you create in Photo, like Rectangles

It's a little counter intuitive - but it is possible. Draw a Rectangle and then select the Pen Tool (with the Rectangle still selected). You can use the Context Toolbar options to adjust the Stroke Width, Colour, etc :)

3 hours ago, VectorCat said:

My apologies…I hadn’t noticed the extent to which PDF elements are put each to a layer; the rectangle’s stroke is a separate layer from the fill; I was thinking in Designer terms where an object has both attributes.

My bad.

No problem at all, thanks for confirming and providing the file!
As you've found you can change the Fill of this specific object to your desired colour, however should you need to do this in the future with a 'stroked' object then you should be able to use the above method :D

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Thanks, @Dan C. That may also provide an answer for another topic or two that came up over the past few weeks, if I can find them again :) 

-- 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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