Thonex Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Hi folks, First, I don't want to sound like an ingrate making these suggestions... as a fellow developer, I appreciate your amazing work and realize not everything is as easy as it seems to change. That said ( ), The callout tool is very restricting to work with. As you can see from the GIF below, it should be very easy to orient the pointer in any direction from any side. Unfortunately, the current Callout Tool only points in 1 direction. That wouldn't be the end of the world since I can easily create 4 versions (in different directions) and store them as Assets. However, The text also gets re-oriented... so I have to insert a text box inside the Callout. And finally, the Affinity Publishing Callout won't let you point from the corner of the callout. How a callout works in another software: The callout behavior from AP... notice how it won't point to a corner: Thanks for any considerations. P.S. I'm very excited about AP!! Rudolphus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 38 minutes ago, Thonex said: the current Callout Tool only points in 1 direction. Move the red dots after you make it and it is only 1/2 as bad. I didn't notice the inverting text thing when you go upside down. Thonex 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 I wonder if there's a bug there, with respect to the text inversion. I can create a callout, and invert. I can then cycle the selection box (aka, in Designer or Photo, reset the selection box) and the rotation handles for the inverted callout now indicate that it's right-side-up (i.e., the rotation handle is on the top). However, as soon as I click on it with the Text Frame tool the rotation handle moves to the bottom, and the text is inverted. I think the process of converting it into a Text Frame should have recognized that it was no longer inverted, but it failed to do so. Thonex 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thonex Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 58 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Move the red dots after you make it and it is only 1/2 as bad. I didn't notice the inverting text thing when you go upside down. Thanks Old Bruce, Yeah... i had tried every red dot combination... but for the sake of the GIF, I just left it as near to the corner as I could get it. I'm away from that computer now, but I did a Callout Rotate... using the rotation handle. I didn't try mirror inverting... which would have been a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 16 minutes ago, Thonex said: I didn't try mirror inverting... which would have been a good idea. Don't bother it doesn't work. Thonex 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thonex Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 Bumping. I'm assuming Affinity considers these shortcomings "as intended" and not a bug? Or should I post this in the bug section? Either way... hoping this gets addressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thonex Posted October 6, 2021 Author Share Posted October 6, 2021 C'mon Serif!! It's been 3 years now. The Callouts are woefully tedious to use. Also see this more recent post: Will this be looking into at all? Or should we abandon all hope? Thanks. Cheers, Andrew K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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