GarryP Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 When I add a Top Paragraph Decoration and increase the Distance To Text it comes nearer to the text. Also, when I add a Bottom Paragraph Decoration and increase the Distance To Text it comes nearer to the text. Shouldn’t the distance to the text increase when the value increases, i.e. Distance Away From Text? The current orientation doesn’t seem right to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltop Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 I agree, seems rather non-intuitive. Another thing that strikes me is that when editing the pressure setting in the Stroke panel this doesn't work. You can only edit in the Decorations setting of the Paragraph sub-panel. The settings should synchronize in both panels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 12, 2019 Author Share Posted August 12, 2019 I don’t use the Pressure settings myself but if there’s a problem with that then you should probably create a new bug report for it so that the two issues can be looked at separately (and combined, if necessary, by the developers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thadeusz Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) Yes, thats the wrong way. Weird. I also have another "wrong way" problem. I've assigned a dashed line to a left aligned text paragraph, but the first full dash is right aligned. Which, of course, leads to problems when using this style to different sized columns. Please have a look at the video. Is there any way to solve that? Any idea would be very welcome! Edit: Oh, great, now I have the video three times and can't erase it. Hope the third one works.. line-decoration.mov line-decoration.mov line-decoration-2.mp4 Edited July 19, 2020 by thadeusz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 20, 2020 Author Share Posted July 20, 2020 I can confirm this on Windows 10 with Publisher 1.8.3.641. The dashes in a dashed line Bottom Decoration start on the right, rather than the left as might be expected. Watch my video as I increase the size of the first dash option; the ‘first dash’ seems to be on the right, which means that the left-hand side is the ‘messy’ side. You can make this a bit more obvious by adding an arrow head to the start of the line (as shown in the video). 2020-07-20_14-11-52.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thadeusz Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 So maybe there is someone at Serif, who is mixing up left and right, hehe ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfriedberg Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 The original posting was quite some time ago, but I will confirm that the Paragraph > Decorations top and bottom distances do seem to be backward from the expected sense. I.e., you need to supply a negative distance to either top or bottom in order to shift the corresponding rule to the outside of the paragraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 21, 2020 Author Share Posted July 21, 2020 My guess – and it’s a total guess – is that the border decorations are created going round the paragraph clockwise. The red arrow(s) in my attached video show the decorations and the red arrow heads show where the END of the decorations are. Note what happens when there is a ‘gap’ between the decorations and two lines are created. I cannot find a way to reverse the way the lines are drawn in the same way that we can with curves. 2020-07-21_09-59-26.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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