Tedious Callout Tool

[Thonex]

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!!

[Old Bruce]

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.

[walt.farrell]

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]

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. 

[Old Bruce]

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]

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.

[Thonex]

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