Resize Canvas with Ruler bug

[Virid]

I noticed when creating a new A5, then use a ruler unit then Resize Canvas it only works correctly when using the top left, if using top right it does expand the same as top left, it should expand to the other way, not the same.

 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Virid

I’m not sure what you are starting with, or what you expect to get at the end, or whether what I’m seeing in your screen-grabs is a ‘before’ or ‘after’, and I don’t know what “use a ruler unit” means.

Can you give us a step-by-step set of instructions we can follow to see if we get the same result?

Note: Full-screen (whole application UI) screenshots are much better than limited-area screen-grabs as we can see everything that you can see.

[Virid]

13 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Welcome to the forums @Virid

I’m not sure what you are starting with, or what you expect to get at the end, or whether what I’m seeing in your screen-grabs is a ‘before’ or ‘after’, and I don’t know what “use a ruler unit” means.

Can you give us a step-by-step set of instructions we can follow to see if we get the same result?

Note: Full-screen (whole application UI) screenshots are much better than limited-area screen-grabs as we can see everything that you can see.

I'm not english speaker original, with ruler units I mean the blue line, is it called Guideline? When Using Resize Canvas as you se on the first "resize canvas, it should expand to the right and bottom:

And when selecting the right side, it should expand to the left. However it does not, it expand to the right as the above image of resize canvas (notice that the white square is not the same), well the guideline does not get effected, but it should. As you see on the top two images they look the same, but they should not look the same. I resized to 10 mm first so it should expand 20 mm on two directions.

Hope I am a bit more clear on the bug.

the bottom should look more like this on the second (image 2):

 

 

Edited December 26, 2024 by Virid
missed a image

[Virid]

1. Create a new Document

2. Set the Guideline in center (as a example)

3. Resize Canvas size and use the left side and expand 200%

4. Undo the change, extend the Canvas size use the right side and expand 200% (it does look the same on both, it should not, it should expand the other way)

Hope this is more clearer.

[GarryP]

Thanks for the extra information; it’s a bit clearer now.

I don’t think this is a bug since the guides (the blue lines in your screen-grabs) are always measured from either the top or left of the canvas.

So, when you resize the canvas, no matter how you do it, the vertical guides will remain the same distance from the left of the canvas and the horizontal guides will remain the same distance from the top of the canvas.

[Virid]

It does give a bit of problem for example if designing a book cover and it needs to be extended on the left side it will need to manually change all the guides. So it might get wrong as one one guides can be moved at the time.

[GarryP]

There have been quite a few suggestions for modifications to what sort of guides we have and how they work, e.g. symmetrical guides, angled guides, grouped guides, positioning by percentages, etc. 

You can look through the Feedback section of the forums to see if there is an existing suggestion for what you want to be able to do and ‘add your voice’ to that.