FIGURE 3 But if you’re dealing with a script font, or almost any. You may also have to play with the text contains letters like a, b, d, e, g, o, p, the stroke width and miter limit values to or q, you’re out of luck (FIGURE 4). get the effect right (FIGURE 6). The fix that I like to use here is to make Just remember to group the three copies of a stack of three copies of the outlined text. the outlined text so they don’t come out of The bottom copy has the stroke aligned to alignment. the outside, the middle copy has the stroke aligned to the inside, and the top copy has The Case of the Green Stop Sign no stroke (FIGURE 5). Contest Answer and Winner So the bottom copy adds the stroke Mike Rankin | August 30, 2018 around the outside of the letters, the middle copy makes strokes visible in the counters, It’s time to reveal the solution—and the and the top copy obscures any defects. Well, winner—for the latest InDesignSecrets contest! FIGURE 4 FIGURE 5 FIGURE 6 INDESIGN MAGAZINE / OCTOBER 2018 51
Here’s the scenario: Someone has FIGURE 1 FIGURE 4 provided you with an InDesign file containing shapes resembling traffic signs, FIGURE 2 rules (Keep in Frame won’t work). and some paragraph styles to format the However, if you paste a larger text text that needs to be added to the signs FIGURE 3 frame inside the sign frame, then (FIGURE 1). the sign frame works as a mask and of you pointed out in your entries that there is you get the right effect. So I accepted When you first add the text, there’s another way to achieve the same results with those entries as correct. nothing unusual (FIGURE 2). paragraph rules. Normally, a paragraph rule would be visible outside the bounds of the signs And the winner of this contest is… But when you apply the styles, all the since there is no “Clip to Frame” option for José Muñoz! José wins 3 months signs turn green (FIGURE 3). access to videos of any 2 days of CreativePro Week 2018. The fill colors applied to the objects have not changed (FIGURE 4). Thanks to everyone who entered, and be on the lookout for another There are no other objects on the page contest with a new great prize next that would cause the color change. month! Why do the signs change color when the text is styled? The answer is that the paragraph styles all had Paragraph Shading turned on. The size of the Offsets was large enough to fill the signs. And Clip to Frame was selected, so the shading did not extend beyond the edges of the signs (FIGURE 5, NEXT PAGE). Bonus Answer While I was only thinking of Paragraph Shading when I created the contest, some INDESIGN MAGAZINE / OCTOBER 2018 52
FIGURE 5 InDesign How-to Video: Using Bookmarks to Navigate INDESIGN MAGAZINE / OCTOBER 2018 Long Documents in InDesign Mike Rankin | September 4, 2018 In this InDesignSecrets video, Mike Rankin demonstrates how to use InDesign’s bookmarks to create a navigation system right within the InDesign file itself. He shows how to create bookmarks automatically with the table of contents feature and also how to manually add other navigation points within the document. Navigating around an InDesign document is a breeze with this setup. InDesign How-to Video: How to Distribute Tabs Evenly Mike Rankin | September 12, 2018 In this InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner shows the quick way to distribute and space out tab stops evenly. Without doing any math, he shows how easy it is to set the first tab at a random amount, and then create tabs set to that same increment across the text frame. 53
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