ConnectCreative Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 It would be a great feature to be able to apply strokes to individual sides only, unless I'm missing the obvious and its already there! Example on the right is what I was looking to achieve. Markio 1 Quote
Old Bruce Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 You could try messing about with Text Decorations in Text Styles. Your request is a good one though. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
fde101 Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 For this particular case, wondering about a shadow positioned due north with 100% opacity... Quote
Old Bruce Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 Hell, two rectangles offset. There are many work arounds but the suggestion by @ConnectCreative is valid and would prove to be quite useful. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
dominik Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 45 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: There are many work arounds but the suggestion by @ConnectCreative is valid and would prove to be quite useful. On first thought I was intrigued by this suggestion, as well. But after a second thought I realize that this is only going to work with rectangles because they are simple (four sides). How could we apply that kind of 'selective stroke' to a triangle, ellipse or a star shape? If there is a clever way to enhance strokes in this way I'm all for it. But it may need a lot of thinking to get it right. I could imagine something similar to dash patterns, or the like. d. Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil
fde101 Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 32 minutes ago, dominik said: How could we apply that kind of 'selective stroke' to a triangle, ellipse or a star shape? An ellipse might be a tough case and probably excluded unless you want to get *really* fancy with this feature and that is likely out of reasonable scope. For the other shapes it could be on the basis of a "side" of the shape and possibly toggled by having tool that you could use to click on the "sides" to turn the stroke on and off - for example, each of the three legs of a triangle, or each of the halves of a spoke of a star. For enclosed paths created using the pen tool (or converted to from something else), a "side" could be the stretch between two nodes, making stroke inclusion in effect a boolean property of the node. The question is, does the ability to do this warrant a new tool of its own, and if it does, is this really a Publisher feature or more of a Designer feature? Quote
dominik Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 5 minutes ago, fde101 said: For the other shapes it could be on the basis of a "side" of the shape and possibly toggled by having tool that you could use to click on the "sides" to turn the stroke on and off - for example, each of the three legs of a triangle, or each of the halves of a spoke of a star. That is an interesting idea. And, yes, I'd rather imagine it as a feature of Affinity Designer. But (most likely) not in version 1.7 d. Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil
fde101 Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 23 minutes ago, dominik said: But (most likely) not in version 1.7 I think they have enough ideas to keep them busy for a while... many of them a bit more pressing. Quote
MikeW Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 Since QXP acquired the ability to have multiple borders, I've used them X number of times. However, there really isn't a difference between a rectangle with such a capability and what was suggested above, a single-cell table. It's what I did for years before a rectangle w/ individual border capability. In the image below, the top is a rectangle, the bottom a single-cell table. As fde mentions, there are other fish to fry. At least in this instance there is a darn near exact method for accomplishing the same thing in APub. Quote
Jere222 Posted May 12, 2022 Posted May 12, 2022 I found a solution for myself using fill linear gradient. Begin #666666 1st stop at 1% #666666 midpoint 0% 2nd stop at 2% #F2F2F2 midpoint 0% end gradient #F2F2F2. Doesn't have a crisp line but works for me. Quote
sfriedberg Posted May 13, 2022 Posted May 13, 2022 There is another general solution, now that the Affinity suite has acquired the contour operator (which was not available in 2019). Take any curve, generate a contour of a width that will put the centerline of your offset stroke at the desired position. Break the contour apart and discard the pieces you don't want. Apply a stroke to the piece(s) you kept. This can also be used to create multi-color striped ribbons, etc. Jere222 1 Quote
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