Affinity Publisher: Decorating space after last paragraph line with color

[Powerhorse]

Is there a simple way to fill the last paragraph line after the text with color

[Old Bruce]

Maybe try a tab and make a Character style (for the tab) to colour the background. Just off the top of my head, not sure if this is possible.

[GarryP]

One quick-and-dirty method would be to, with a Paragraph Style, add a Fill Decoration to the paragraph, set the Justification to Justify Left and then set the Background Fill of the Characters to White – see attached video.
It’s a horrible way of doing it, and it will only work against a plain background (and probably has some other problems), but it’s an option if there’s not a better way.

 

[Powerhorse]

One problem with both options is the line height of the color bar. It is much too high, too close to the top line.
Since I have colored background, the tab option is more suitable for the project.

[Powerhorse]

In the picture you can see that it is much too high

 

[GarryP]

I don’t think you will be able to get exactly what you want which will work in all situations.
The methods shown above are ‘workarounds’ since the functionality you want isn’t available, specifically, in the software.

Attached is another ‘workaround’ which uses an Inline Pinned shape which is stretched to the right-hand horizontal edge of the Frame Text.
The problem with this one is that you will need to manually stretch the shape to fit if the text or frame changes.

There is no ‘best solution’ for this, the software simply cannot do, automatically, by itself, what you want it to do.