Pasteboard background color changing with Preview on/off

[PaoloT]

Hi,

I would like the pasteboard color to change, depending on the Preview mode status. That is,

- With Preview mode off, the pasteboard can be automatically set to white, so that one can work on snippets as if they had a paper background. If the paper is of a different color, it would be great if one could set this color automatically for the document. Maybe a variable could set a 'Paper' color, and this will change, for the app preferences, depending on the value assigned to this variable by the document.

- With Preview mode on, the pasteboard can be automatically set to a darker color, so that the page is clearly detached from the background when previewing it.

Paolo

 

[GarryP]

Since you are talking about the Preview mode, which is only available in Publisher, the “Artboard background colour” (or “Artboard Background Grey Level” as it is named – in English – in Preferences/User Interface) is only shown when your document was created in Designer, and you have artboards in the document.

Do you mean only the “Artboard Background Grey Level”, or only the “Background Grey Level”, or both, or something else?

Note: I wouldn’t want this to be something which wasn’t overridable by the user as I do not want a white pasteboard background under any circumstances.

Your idea might get more support if you changed it a little to be more inclusive, or at least sound more appreciative, of other users’ needs.

[PaoloT]

3 hours ago, GarryP said:

Since you are talking about the Preview mode, which is only available in Publisher, the “Artboard background colour” (or “Artboard Background Grey Level” as it is named – in English – in Preferences/User Interface) is only shown when your document was created in Designer, and you have artboards in the document.

That's correct, thank you. I changed it to "pasteboard".

Having it different from paper color is a disaster, when you have to do any editing, and the grey background colors the foreground image or text frame.

3 hours ago, GarryP said:

Your idea might get more support if you changed it a little to be more inclusive, or at least sound more appreciative, of other users’ needs.

I'm asking for a preference that anybody can set at will. Even asking for possibilities and freedom of choice has become offensive, now?

Paolo

 

[GarryP]

16 hours ago, PaoloT said:

Even asking for possibilities and freedom of choice has become offensive, now?

I think I might have misread what you said.
Initially I thought that you were suggesting that certain things ‘should’ be a certain way whereas now I can see that you were saying that things ‘could’ be a certain way.
Just a silly misunderstanding on my part – I read so many requests where people don’t take other users into account that it’s become a sort of ‘default assumption’.

I don’t have any problem with the user being able to set different pasteboard colours for different circumstances but I think it could be awkward in practice. I can't say why, it's just a feeling that there could be problems.

[PaoloT]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

I don’t have any problem with the user being able to set different pasteboard colours for different circumstances but I think it could be awkward in practice. I can't say why, it's just a feeling that there could be problems.

If this can help my request, this is how InDesign behaves.

There is a reason for this, and is the one that I'm finding problematic in Publisher. The pasteboard appears when in "Drafting" mode (if I can call it this way), and disappears in Preview mode.

The Drafting mode is where one uses the pasteboard to work on materials that are not yet assembled in the page. For example, one could want to make a composite object made of several individual images. Images with a transparent background take the color of the pasteboard. White is the same of the paper (at least, usually). Grey is not, and makes perceiving the look of the materials being worked different from the final result.

In Preview mode the pasteboard disappear, but one needs some contrast between the page and the background. If this latter remains white, there is no contrast with a white page. The usual choice is a grey of varying intensity, that is giving enough contrast to clearly perceive the page content.

Paolo

 

[PaoloT]

Now that the Assets may have a different background color at will, I would like to reiterate this request for the pasteboard. Maybe the same technology can be used to make it alternate from a color that is good to isolate the page in Preview mode, and offer the paper color when assembling elements in the pasteboard in Draft mode.

Paolo