inconsistent image border/stroke

[MaxineD]

Hope you can help. 

I have documents with many photos that I've inserted into picture frames. I've made the stroke 0.1pt BUT there seems to be quite a variety in stroke size within that! Is there any way I can select all my photos and make the stroke exactly the same on all (having done them each individually twice, one to change from 0.2pt and again to try and make the 0.1pt the same throughout) Can you set specific width of the stroke? In the screenshots, the photos all have 0.1pt border, but it's hard to see the difference in aff.pun - it shows up in the pdf and printing though. 

I'll add another couple of images to show the difference between the aff.pub appearance and the pdf appearance

Edited November 16, 2023 by MaxineD
just to show clearer difference between aff.pub & pdf appearance of stroke

[carl123]

Select > Select Object > Picture Frame

Should allow you to do as you want

but check out the Help file first to fully understand what is does

[MaxineD]

Not useful - I can do the border and adjust weight, but want to know why there's so much variation within 0.1pt, and how to make consistent across the book - retrospectively

[anto]

3 hours ago, MaxineD said:

I have documents with many photos that I've inserted into picture frames. I've made the stroke 0.1pt BUT there seems to be quite a variety in stroke size within that! Is there any way I can select all my photos and make the stroke exactly the same on all (having done them each individually twice, one to change from 0.2pt and again to try and make the 0.1pt the same throughout)

To change image stroke on all frames here is video. How to change on one page or on all pages

 

 

[thomaso]

To me the stroke widths are hard to judge via screenshots at differing/unknown zoom levels, so just three notes:

• Do all these strokes use the identical black/gray definition?

• Make sure the nested images inside the Picture Frames do not have a stroke assigned. Otherwise their stroke may appear and vary/disappear for images that got zoomed within its parent Picture Frame.

• Check the Stroke Panel option "Scale with object" for various objects. If activated then scaling a Picture Frame scales its stroke, too.

• Same for the fill colour of the Picture Frames. To prevent a fill colour from possibly flickering at the edges of a nested image, select None.

Regarding your "Superscript" screenshots: If a font file doesn't contain extra superscript glyphs then the "Typography" option might not work as expected. Alternatively the option for "Super/Subscript" in "Positioning and Transform" might work.

[MaxineD]

Many thanks - the video was really useful to select all stroked objects - looks great in the Affinity document, but when exported to pdf, it is a muhc heavier line! Why would that be? (pdf on left of 'rock' screenshot)

[Old Bruce]

11 minutes ago, MaxineD said:

Many thanks - the video was really useful to select all stroked objects - looks great in the Affinity document, but when exported to pdf, it is a muhc heavier line! Why would that be? (pdf on left of 'rock' screenshot)

Some PDF viewers will make very thin lines slightly thicker, and a tenth of a point is very extremely thin. A test here shows no difference at 100% using Designer to make and view a 0.1 point line and Apple's Preview application to view the exported PDF.

[thomaso]

14 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

a tenth of a point is very extremely thin

@MaxineD, if you layout for print it may be worth to ask the printer what line width would print reliable without loss in their process. (0.2 pt is quite common as "thinnest" line, also known as "hairline").

Since the lines in your screenshots seem to be gray (not black): considering that gray will get rasterized and the raster's grid may be rotated quite likely, the printed result might appear different than just as straight, plain line.

Compare this article about halftone angles and thin lines:
http://the-print-guide.blogspot.com/2009/05/halftone-screen-angles.html

[MaxineD]

Thank you all - much appreciated. I can't see how to reply to one specific answer. Some of that is way beyond me, but I will certainly spend time on those links and try to learn!!  

Not sure if it must be another topic, but my other concern with my many images, is how to alter the specific space between photos, and keep consistent. Is it to do with somehow stopping it from snapping to gridlines? But I'd like to be able to select 3.5 gap, for example.