Indesign CS2 custom stroke type/style
sagannotcarl (7 pencils) | Wed, 2006-06-07 23:57Hello,
I am trying to make a custom stroke style, that would be able to be selected in the "type" pull down menu in the stroke palette. Basically I want to do something similar to an art brush funtion in Illustrator. I like how smart Indesign is with the dotted lines (always having a dot at the end and centered in the middle), and I want that with a custom shape replacing the dot.
You can save these styles as .inst files, and re-load them again, but I can't find anywhere about creating an .inst file outside of the "stroke styles..." palatte option which doesn't allow dropping in other shapes.
Thanks,
Colin
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Creating a stroke style in another app and using it in InDesign and by that way also using other shapes than the standards is impossible.
What you could do is to use the Text on a path option.
Text can follow a path but you can also use a shape, a logo, a photo to follow that path.
Copy your shape put your text cursor on a path and then paste the shape. All your paragraph and character options stay available so you can play around with baseline shift, kerning and so on. Even transparency and color changes can be applied to individual shapes as well as fills, strokes and so on...
Ok you cant save it as a style but you could put it in a library and use it from there in different documents.
Just an idea, maybe you can use it.
fidel
that looks interesting, I will try that. I also discovered that .inst was, at least at some point, referring to a "Three-dimensional object file (Object Oriented Graphics Library format)." Anyone know about this?
Colin
Ok, so the file that indesign creates when you make a custom stroke type is, like I said above, .inst. When you look at it in the finder is says the kind of file is "Indesign Line Presets." Does that ring any bells for anyone? And more importantly, does anyone know how to edit this outside of indesign?
Colin
Colin, I'm trying to find out the same information as I'm dealing with a custom stroke style that has an angle rather than a flat horizontal line. Will keep you posted on my findings in hopes of finding how to edit these .Inst files.