GarryP Posted March 11, 2019 Posted March 11, 2019 Windows 10 Home 1809, Publisher 1.7.0.257. I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug so I'll ask the question. When I have a cell or a number of cells in a table selected, I can change the border - of whichever border-selection is currently selected in the Table panel - of those cells via the Decorations tab of the Character panel. Is this something that was deliberate? It's a kind-of-nice short-cut if I don't have the Tables panel open - even though I can't choose which border selection I want from the Character panel - but I don't know if having it at the Character level is appropriate. I'm not sure where would be a better place, it just seems a bit odd. Quote
Petar Petrenko Posted March 11, 2019 Posted March 11, 2019 Yes, it is a feature and it is a VERY NICE feature. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort
GarryP Posted March 12, 2019 Author Posted March 12, 2019 My concern is about where the control is situated. It allows the formatting of something that is two 'levels' above the context of the Character panel - those 'levels' being (as I see them): Character; Paragraph; Table Cell; Table Frame; (whatever the table frame is in, if anything); Document. Being able to alter the formatting of a Table Cell via the Character panel is analogous to being able to alter the margins of the Document via the Table panel. It just doesn't seem right to me. I think it would be a shame if something like this set a precedent for the future of the UI. I think we should be using the Table panel for formatting the table/cells and the Character panel for formatting characters. Having functionality 'leaking' over like this could lead to some major confusion further along the road. Better to keep things simple, at the start at least. Quote
fde101 Posted March 12, 2019 Posted March 12, 2019 4 hours ago, GarryP said: Being able to alter the formatting of a Table Cell via the Character panel is analogous to being able to alter the margins of the Document via the Table panel. It just doesn't seem right to me. Assuming that is in fact what it is doing, I agree. Quote
GarryP Posted March 12, 2019 Author Posted March 12, 2019 That's certainly what it looks like to me, see attached GIF. If I've got this all wrong then someone please tell me. Quote
fde101 Posted March 12, 2019 Posted March 12, 2019 The fact that the outline around multiple cells changes seems to be rather definitive proof that this is indeed impacting cell borders rather than being a character border that happens to overlap the cell borders. To me that looks like a design goof rather than a bug. Quote
GarryP Posted March 13, 2019 Author Posted March 13, 2019 Either way - goof or bug - it certainly looks wrong to me. Moderators: Can you shed any light on this? Quote
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