fractional size of strokes

[yahoohoo]

Hi,

Tried the demo and it's really a nice work. It would be nice to enable fractional size of strokes in PL. By fractional size, I mean something like 0.1 pt, 0.2 pt, etc.

Cheers,
yahoohoo

[Martin Huber]

Tried the demo and it's really a nice work. It would be nice to enable fractional size of strokes in PL. By fractional size, I mean something like 0.1 pt, 0.2 pt, etc.

You're talking about vector graphics? PhotoLine is supporting fractional stroke widths and your examples (0.1 pt, …) should work fine. But there is on caveat: The pixel unit (px) doesn't show the fractional part in text fields, although it supports them when drawing the stroke.

Martin

[yahoohoo]

Tried the demo and it's really a nice work. It would be nice to enable fractional size of strokes in PL. By fractional size, I mean something like 0.1 pt, 0.2 pt, etc.

You're talking about vector graphics? PhotoLine is supporting fractional stroke widths and your examples (0.1 pt, …) should work fine. But there is on caveat: The pixel unit (px) doesn't show the fractional part in text fields, although it supports them when drawing the stroke.

Martin

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, you're right that the fractional stroke widths work for vector graphics but there is a display problem. In Adobe Illustrator, stoke widths like 0.1 pt are properly displayed. Would it be possible or to be considered in PL?

I'm trying to find if there is a convenient way to select simutaneously multiple paths objects, e.g., the ticks in scientific plot. Could you give some instruction?

Best

[greenmorpher]

I don't believe Illustrator actually correctly displays 0.1 pt given that this would be 0.1 pixel at 100% view with a 72 dpi monitor and not much better with a 96 dpi monitor.

Cheers, geoff

Geoffrey Heard
Business & Environment Writer, Editor, Publisher
The Worsley Press

[yahoohoo]

I don't believe Illustrator actually correctly displays 0.1 pt given that this would be 0.1 pixel at 100% view with a 72 dpi monitor and not much better with a 96 dpi monitor.

By "correctly displayed", I mean at least you know the fractional size you've assigned to the stoke widths in AI. This is convenient when you have lots of stokes with different sizes.

[bkh]

Yes, you're right that the fractional stroke widths work for vector graphics but there is a display problem. In Adobe Illustrator, stoke widths like 0.1 pt are properly displayed. Would it be possible or to be considered in PL?

I'n not sure what you mean by "properly displayed". Imo, PL should display "0.1 px" instead of "0 px" in the text box (this shouldn't be a major problem since fractional pixel widths are displayed elsewhere, e.g. layer positions in the Attributes dialog). The strokes themselves are displayed properly, as far as I can see - they have the right width if you zoom to 1000 %, and they display as fine grey lines at lower zoom rates (with antialiasing on). If you turn on "View -> Pixel mode", you'll see the grey pixels also at higher zoom rates - that's how it should be.
EDIT: sorry, I overlooked your last answer to greenmorpher, so it's clear that you were referring to the text box displaying the stroke width.

I'm trying to find if there is a convenient way to select simutaneously multiple paths objects, e.g., the ticks in scientific plot. Could you give some instruction?

If all the vector objects (are supposed to) have the same properties (line width, stroke colour, fill colour), you could put them all in a single vector layer (use Layout -> Vector -> Merge marked vector layers if you already have several vector layers). Then the properties are changed for all objects simultaneously.

Btw., PL has a tool for creating ruler objects. It's not very flexible, but maybe it's still a starting point.

Cheers

Burkhard.

[yahoohoo]

I'n not sure what you mean by "properly displayed". Imo, PL should display "0.1 px" instead of "0 px" in the text box (this shouldn't be a major problem since fractional pixel widths are displayed elsewhere, e.g. layer positions in the Attributes dialog). The strokes themselves are displayed properly, as far as I can see - they have the right width if you zoom to 1000 %, and they display as fine grey lines at lower zoom rates (with antialiasing on). If you turn on "View -> Pixel mode", you'll see the grey pixels also at higher zoom rates - that's how it should be.

It would be great to have "0.1 px" displayed correctly in the text box.

If all the vector objects (are supposed to) have the same properties (line width, stroke colour, fill colour), you could put them all in a single vector layer (use Layout -> Vector -> Merge marked vector layers if you already have several vector layers). Then the properties are changed for all objects simultaneously.

Basically, I use Mathematica to get professional scientific plots and then copy them into AI or PL for further editing. If one could change or modify the labels and/or ticks in PL very easily, then it'll save a lot of work.

Thanks for the reply.