Dottet line in table looks different when exported to PDS.

[JBSJOC]

I was trying to make a half-height border in a table and figured out i could make a dash line (0,10,0,0,10,0) that looked right.

However when I export to PDF, the dash line looks wrong (or the height of the line increases. idk, possibly both).

It is most obvious in Adobe Acrobat reader where there is a thin line where the vertical line begins, and alot of space below the end of the vertical line.

I'm using Publisher 2 v2.5.3.

Result (PDF).pdf Dash line bug.afpub

[Hangman]

Hi @JBSJOC and welcome to the forums,

Dashed lines are not supported with tables so your best bet is to use paragraph decorations...

I've added paragraph decorations to the bottom row which were then exported to pdf and all looks good...

If you select the bottom row by clicking the number 4 with the table tool selected you can see the Decoration 1 settings used for the left vertical line of each cell. If you then click to the right of the 3000K text in the Colour Temp cell of row 4 you can see the Decoration 2 settings used to add the right vertical line...

If you repeat this for the top row, replacing your dashed lines this should give you what you're looking for...

Dash line bug.afpub Dash line bug.pdf

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, JBSJOC said:

It is most obvious in Adobe Acrobat reader where there is a thin line where the vertical line begins, and alot of space below the end of the vertical line.

In addition, please note that Acrobat Reader has an option, which is enabled by default, to "enhance thin lines" which can interfere with some designs. You might want to look at it again with that option turned off.

[JBSJOC]

1 hour ago, Hangman said:

Hi @JBSJOC and welcome to the forums,

Dashed lines are not supported with tables so your best bet is to use paragraph decorations...

I've added paragraph decorations to the bottom row which were then exported to pdf and all looks good...

If you select the bottom row by clicking the number 4 with the table tool selected you can see the Decoration 1 settings used for the left vertical line of each cell. If you then click to the right of the 3000K text in the Colour Temp cell of row 4 you can see the Decoration 2 settings used to add the right vertical line...

If you repeat this for the top row, replacing your dashed lines this should give you what you're looking for...

Dash line bug.afpub  Dash line bug.pdf 14.02 kB · 1 download

I'm not sure i understand what you mean by "Dashed lines are not supported with tables". 

I just clicked the vertical cell boarder between the header cells, clicked the color and selected dashed lines.

 

But anyway, the paragraph decorations, that you suggested, seems to work well, even though its a wierd workaround that takes quite some fiddeling to get right.

Thanks a bunch

[JBSJOC]

31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

In addition, please note that Acrobat Reader has an option, which is enabled by default, to "enhance thin lines" which can interfere with some designs. You might want to look at it again with that option turned off.

I did'nt know about that option, but it does not seem to make a difference when zoomed all the way in, and when not zoomed it just blurs the tiny line a bit.

The tiny line is also visible in Edge, but not in Chrome 🤷‍♂️

[Hangman]

38 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

In addition, please note that Acrobat Reader has an option, which is enabled by default, to "enhance thin lines" which can interfere with some designs. You might want to look at it again with that option turned off.

Hi @walt.farrell,

That's not relevant in this case, as it doesn't relate specifically to dashed lines in the way they're used in the table...

[Hangman]

8 minutes ago, JBSJOC said:

I'm not sure i understand what you mean by "Dashed lines are not supported with tables".

When Balanced Dash Patterns were introduced the issue was raised about their use with tables...

The response from Serif was...

Perhaps not an identical scenario but I would say that you can't currently rely on dashed line phasing when using them with tables which was the reason for suggesting the Decoration route since that works even though it's not ideal as a solution...

[JBSJOC]

1 minute ago, Hangman said:

When Balanced Dash Patterns were introduced the issue was raised about their use with tables...

The response from Serif was...

Perhaps not an identical scenario but I would say that you can't currently rely on dashed line phasing when using them with tables which was the reason for suggesting the Decoration route since that works even though it's not ideal as a solution...

Ah ok. I see what you mean now.

My first idea was to make those half-height lines with gradiants, but I cound not figure out how to rotate a gradient so it blended from top to buttom instead of left to right.

[Hangman]

32 minutes ago, JBSJOC said:

My first idea was to make those half-height lines with gradiants, but I cound not figure out how to rotate a gradient so it blended from top to buttom instead of left to right.

I don't believe it's possible to apply a gradient to a table cell stoke... you can apply one to the table frame but as far as I can tell you can't rotate that either...