iaing Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 Says it all - I;d like a way to visually edit tabs e.g. drag a marker on the screen where the text is, rather than adjust numbers in a side panel. Quote MacBook Pro M1 Max, macOS 12.6.1 Monterey Affinity Designer : 2.0 Affinity Photo: 2.0, Affinity Publisher: 2.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Try clicking on the text ruler shown by View > Show Text Ruler. iaing and CaptainPurple 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 nice.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Hi, I noticed that the values in the Tab Stops menu are reversed: If I have a text block of 70 mm, and put a tab stop on the ruler at 5 mm, the value is 65 mm. Vice versa, if I put it at 65 mm on the ruler, the value is 5 mm. Seems like a bug to me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Sorry, perhaps I misunderstood, if I put my tabs on the top part of the ruler, it is reversed, if I put the at the bottom it is normal. Is this by design and if so, what is the purpose of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 3 minutes ago, postmadesign said: Sorry, perhaps I misunderstood, if I put my tabs on the top part of the ruler, it is reversed, if I put the at the bottom it is normal. Is this by design and if so, what is the purpose of this? It's by design. The tabstops along the top edge are positioned relative to the right edge of the column instead of the left. You can see the difference if you make the column wider. It's intended to do a similar job to right-tab in Indesign, but in a more general way. A common use would be to right-align page numbers in a header. Aammppaa and Wosven 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 9 hours ago, Dave Harris said: tabstops along the top edge are positioned relative to the right edge of the column instead of the left. OMG this had me baffled for an hour yesterday! CaptainPurple 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iaing Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 On 9/13/2018 at 11:28 AM, Dave Harris said: Try clicking on the text ruler shown by View > Show Text Ruler. Doh - thank you! Quote MacBook Pro M1 Max, macOS 12.6.1 Monterey Affinity Designer : 2.0 Affinity Photo: 2.0, Affinity Publisher: 2.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPurple Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Today I Learned: from the Text Ruler you an also edit your tabs (leader, alignment, etc.) if you hold the control key and click! Back in the day I cried many a bitter tear in frustration learning how to set and edit tabs in PageMaker and InDesign (yeah, I've been around THAT long, get off my lawn). This is so much easier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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