Filmunderdog Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Is there a way to add an outline to an artboard? I know from other posts that it used to be standard that outlines were standard and removed. There were some posts where it was mentioned it might be coming back. Is it back? Or am I missing how to do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 If it's a rectangular artboard you could draw a rectangle that covers the artboard, and give the rectangle a stroke of the appropriate width. For artboards with other shapes, choose a different one of the shape tools, or use the Pen Tool to outline the artboard and then stroke it. 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...
Filmunderdog Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 Walt, Thanks, It would be nice to have the ability to just add an outline to an artboard, but I understand this is a feasible workaround. I'm a new user and shout out to Affinity - its a great piece of software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Yes, it would be nice to have that ability. The UI seems designed to allow it, so I hope they fix whatever bug keeps it from working. 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...
R C-R Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 On 8/10/2019 at 2:44 AM, Filmunderdog said: Is there a way to add an outline to an artboard? There is, but it relies on what I think is probably a bug. It seems to be the same bug that I mentioned in this post about adding a stroke to a text frame. It relies on using the Appearance panel to add more than one stroke to the artboard, like in this Stroked Artboards example.afdesign. Filmunderdog 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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