GFDBILL Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 This seems to be a more complex task than it was with Page Plus. With Page Plus, there is a Straight Line Tool on the main toolbar. Once you have drawn a line, you can set the style as a default, so next time you want to draw a straight line 2 points, with straight ends (a really simple line) you just click the tool and draw the line. Also if you want a line at an angle, there are several set angles to use - not just 45 degrees. Could we not have such ease-of-use in Affinity Publisher? muelli75 and Old Bruce 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 3 minutes ago, GFDBILL said: This seems to be a more complex task than it was with Page Plus. With Page Plus, there is a Straight Line Tool on the main toolbar. Once you have drawn a line, you can set the style as a default, so next time you want to draw a straight line 2 points, with straight ends (a really simple line) you just click the tool and draw the line. Also if you want a line at an angle, there are several set angles to use - not just 45 degrees. Could we not have such ease-of-use in Affinity Publisher? And Designer too. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | 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...
fde101 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 If you use advanced mode in Grid Manager you can change this under "Additional axis setup" (change the intermediate divisions) - oddly, even if I switch away from advanced mode after adjusting that the setting seems to stick; not sure it is supposed to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandu Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 I think when Photo and Vector persona become available, other tools within those personas (such as the straight line tool) will become available. Publisher is not AD or AP so there is no point of replicating all tools available in other software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 9 hours ago, Mandu said: the straight line tool They don't have one either. It is all done with the pen tool by constraining the angle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typo998 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Hi, With the pen tool , click on the line mode Hold the Shift key if you want to make an horizontal line for exemple (when holding the shift key you have 45 degrees rotation each time when moving the mouse. Hope that will help. World View, Jenna Appleseed, acapstick and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 A line tool like the one in Pages or Indesign or ... would be nice, even very wanted. U. Dinser, Rich313, AnthonyCornett and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPSports Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 I agree. I understand the process for developing the program. Can’t believe a simple task like the line tool should be so hard. There are some nice things here but seems like a huge step backwards from where page plus has gone. Some of us won’t be around in ten years when needed features are added. I don’t want to use pp because it is a. Dead program and will never be developed further. Maybe open source the code so others can tweak it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPSports Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Looking for help. I draw a straight line with the pen. Then I select the move tool to move it and it disappears. This is more work than it should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 7 minutes ago, JPSports said: Looking for help. I draw a straight line with the pen. Then I select the move tool to move it and it disappears. This is more work than it should be. Did you make sure it had a stroke value specified? I think it should, by default, but it's probably worth checking. You should be able to find it in the Layer panel, select it there, and check the stroke setting. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhitmill Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 I can't even begin to find a way to draw a simple line with this. I use the Pen tool, but it doesn't present me with any options for size or style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 2 minutes ago, jwhitmill said: I can't even begin to find a way to draw a simple line with this. I use the Pen tool, but it doesn't present me with any options for size or style. With the Pen Tool selected, the Context Toolbar provides choices for Fill and Stroke, with the Stroke providing a color-well you can click in to set the line's color, and the next field providing the option for size of the stroke/line. ClarityDynamic 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 You can also use stroke panel. Yes, there is no line tool and we have to make do with pen tool. Hopefully we can use automatic style "decorations" instead. ClarityDynamic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Using the pen tool holding down shift applying styles from the style studio would be sufficient for me , but... ClarityDynamic 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarityDynamic Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 I must say after struggling with creating a line to separate my title from the body, the 'PEN TOOL' is absolutely amazing, my new favorite tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarityDynamic Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 On 10/26/2018 at 7:23 AM, Typo998 said: Hi, With the pen tool , click on the line mode Hold the Shift key if you want to make an horizontal line for exemple (when holding the shift key you have 45 degrees rotation each time when moving the mouse. Hope that will help. This is PURE gold - Thank you @Typo998 for this nugget and VERY sound advice this is EXACTLY the correct answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 14 hours ago, ClarityDynamic said: I must say after struggling with creating a line to separate my title from the body, the 'PEN TOOL' Don't forget it can be in the paragraph style decoration settings, and you won't have to move your lines each time you modify your text, and can in a bulk modify this line on all the titles when modifying the decoration of your paragraph style. ClarityDynamic and fde101 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timo2021 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 I've just recently stated to use Affinity Publisher after that some years been using the Page Plus. In Page plus you can choose different styles for the straight line for example a split the line with a gap between lines. You can even change wide of the gap and thickness of the lines, a very easy and practical tool for me. I can't find that kind of function in Publisher. Maybe I can fix that in Design, can I? I don't want to draw two parallel lines that's too much work, because I've got them on every page.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Timo2021 said: I've just recently stated to use Affinity Publisher after that some years been using the Page Plus. In Page plus you can choose different styles for the straight line for example a split the line with a gap between lines. You can even change wide of the gap and thickness of the lines, a very easy and practical tool for me. I can't find that kind of function in Publisher. Maybe I can fix that in Design, can I? I don't want to draw two parallel lines that's too much work, because I've got them on every page.... Hi @Timo2021 and welcome to the forum. You could do this with the appearance of the line. Basically it would be one line that has two line widths applied to it. The top one is thin and has the colour of your background and the width of the gap between the two lines. The bottom one has the width of the added width of the two lines plus the gap and has the colour of the strokes you want. This of course won't work if you have e.g. a gradient or a photo in the background. The good thing is, it also works with curved lines 🙂 If you need true two parallel lines you could save them once as an asset and pull them in on every page. Or you could put them once on a master page and apply that to pages where needed. d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 On 2/22/2021 at 4:59 AM, dominik said: You could do this with the appearance of the line. Basically it would be one line that has two line widths applied to it. The top one is thin and has the colour of your background and the width of the gap between the two lines. The bottom one has the width of the added width of the two lines plus the gap and has the colour of the strokes you want. Nice - that is an interesting approach and should be fine as long as the line is sitting on a solid background color. It breaks down if there is a gradient, image, or other such thing behind the line. If you do happen to be working with a solid background color though, you could extend this by piling additional lines on top, making each one thinner than the last, and alternating the colors to create triple, quadruple, etc. lines. I don't think you can do one thin one thick this way though unless they are balanced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 9 hours ago, fde101 said: Nice - that is an interesting approach and should be fine as long as the line is sitting on a solid background color. ... I don't think you can do one thin one thick this way though unless they are balanced. Correct, this is only a visual thing, not 'real' two lines. And assymetrical designs are also not possible. But it would be a great enhancement if we could set an offset to achieve this. By expanding such a 'multi stroke' and afterwards subtracting the top from the bottom results in a two rectangle vector shapes that look like two parallel lines that work on gradients and images. d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 On 2/24/2021 at 12:36 AM, dominik said: But it would be a great enhancement if we could set an offset to achieve this. With an offset we could have real parallel lines with transparency between them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 On 2/27/2021 at 12:13 AM, fde101 said: With an offset we could have real parallel lines with transparency between them. There is some logic to it And it illustrates the big advantage of this feature. d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil John Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 must say, after using pageplus, seems to me Affinity has gone backwards. Struggling to do simple tasks that were very simple in pageplus. might have to spring for AI, this is more frustrating than productive. my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 13 hours ago, Lil John said: might have to spring for AI, this is more frustrating than productive. Personally, I found Illustrator to be much worse. Also, Illustrator would be more comparable to Designer, while this thread is here to discuss Publisher - the comparison would be with InDesign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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