skylamar Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Hi. I'm using Affinity Designer for Mac. I have the latest version: 1.7.1. I'm trying to add a stroke to an artboard and it doesn't seem to be working. Adding a fill works just fine. I keep increasing the width of the stroke settings, but no stroke is appearing at all. I must be doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what. I've attached a screenshot. Thanks in advance for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylamar Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 Actually, I was just wanting to add a stroke so I could see the boundaries of the artboard when it's not selected. But, after posting the above message, I realized I can change preferences for "Artboard Background Gray Level" and that lets me see the artboard's boundaries. Fixx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 While it is debatable if artboard should have fill and stroke, when UI allows adding a stroke it should show too. This seems a bug. Wosven 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 4 hours ago, Fixx said: While it is debatable if artboard should have fill and stroke, when UI allows adding a stroke it should show too. This seems a bug. I agree. There are old bug reports about this, by the way, but it wouldn't hurt to add a new one. For now, you can use the Appearances panel to add a second stroke, which will be visible. 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...
Staff Dan C Posted August 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 15, 2019 Hi skylamar This is a bug logged with our development team, unfortunately there hasn't yet been any update on the report as to whether the help file is incorrect and this shouldn't be possible, or whether the application is bugged and the stroke should be there, but isn't being rendered. I've bumped the log directly to the project lead for a response, so hopefully I will have an update shorty here. 6 hours ago, Fixx said: While it is debatable if artboard should have fill and stroke, when UI allows adding a stroke it should show too Agreed, I've also raised the context toolbar options, as these need addressing if it isn't supposed to be possible. Fixx 1 Quote Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave. If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 14 minutes ago, Dan C said: Agreed, I've also raised the context toolbar options, as these need addressing if it isn't supposed to be possible. As well as the Appearance Panel, of course Dan C 1 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...
skylamar Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 Thanks everyone for your responses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 20 hours ago, walt.farrell said: As well as the Appearance Panel, of course FWIW, I mentioned using the Appearance panel to add a stroke to an artboard in this post in another topic. The trick is to add more than one stroke to the artboard in the Appearance panel. There must be at least 2 strokes for any stroke to appear, but one can be 0 width & no color (or just hidden) if you only need one to show. EDIT: Just for giggles, I created this: Take a guess, then download Guess.afdesign to see if you were right. Dan C 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...
Nikos Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 On 8/15/2019 at 2:50 PM, Dan C said: Hi skylamar This is a bug logged with our development team, unfortunately there hasn't yet been any update on the report as to whether the help file is incorrect and this shouldn't be possible, or whether the application is bugged and the stroke should be there, but isn't being rendered. I've bumped the log directly to the project lead for a response, so hopefully I will have an update shorty here. Agreed, I've also raised the context toolbar options, as these need addressing if it isn't supposed to be possible. Any progress on this? It's been almost a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 13, 2020 Staff Share Posted July 13, 2020 Hi Nikos! I can confirm that the Helpfile has been updated to match the expected behaviour (that artboards should not support a stroke property) however unfortunately there has been no update on the development bug report. I'll bump this with our developers now, many thanks Quote Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave. If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Dan C said: I can confirm that the Helpfile has been updated to match the expected behaviour (that artboards should not support a stroke property) however unfortunately there has been no update on the development bug report. Does this mean that files created using the Appearance panel to stack multiple stokes on artboards like my Guess.afdesign one above won't work if the bug is fixed? Personally, I think being able to add strokes to artboards is useful. As I see it the only bug is that there has to be more than one stroke applied for any stroke to be visible. 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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