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You could try messing about with Text Decorations in Text Styles. Your request is a good one though.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted

Hell, two rectangles offset. There are many work arounds but the suggestion by @ConnectCreative is valid and would prove to be quite useful.

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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.

Posted
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.

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Posted
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?

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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.

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Posted
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.

:ph34r:

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Since QXP acquired the ability to have multiple borders, I've used them X number of times.

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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.

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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.

  • 3 years later...
Posted

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.

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Posted

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.

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