Publisher - Unable to make rounded dotted lines in a table

[mmchocolate]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The options to change the cap is greyed out, and I'm pretty sure this is what I need to change.

I want to make these dotted lines within the table circles, and I want to change their color.

How do I do this?

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @mmchocolate

This is a known issue: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/183171-round-dots-in-table-strokes-with-ap-v2/

You might like to try some of the ‘workarounds’ in that thread to see if one works for you.

[mmchocolate]

Thanks GarryP. Looks like none of the workarounds work in any menu as of the latest update (as some people in that thread also noted). 

Thank goodness I didn't delete my copy of Affinity Publisher V1. I'll just go back to that I guess.

[GarryP]

That’s a shame.

I’ve just tried the three ways – Table Panel; Context Toolbar; Stroke Panel – with Publisher 2.1.1 on Windows and none work for me either now, even though the Stroke Panel method did work for me with 2.0.4.

There seems to be some confusion as to what should work and what shouldn’t so the Serif staff probably need to have a bit of a chat amongst themselves about this.

If you need to go back to V1 then you won’t be able to take your V2 documents back with you (not without exporting to PDF from V1 and then importing into V1 anyway).

[mmchocolate]

Yeah, I appreciate you giving me that thread link. I just commented there and added some example use cases to make them reconsider.

I honestly hate InDesign because it is ungodly confusing to use, so I do hope the Serif team figures it all out.

Luckily the original designs that I just started trying to remake in Affinity were made in InDesign, so I'll just continue to remake them using Affinity V1 instead. Since I just started, nothing lost for now!

This has been a lesson in not wasting money by upgrading though. At least not soon. I was just about to upgrade my Affinity Designer...definitely won't be doing that any time soon.