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• • June 2, 2010 at 4:14 pm #55892
    calvinmaas

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    Hi, I'm new to the forum and totally new to inDesign. I was flipping through an old magazine and found a form that was intriguing, and so I decided to try recreating it. Here it is. Trust me, it looks gorgeous in person. I'm specifically looking at how to make the single stroke box around all the cells, and no box around the table itself. I like the open look at the edges. I started with a table and got nowhere fast. I thought that using a thin-thin stroke would do the trick if i could make one of the strokes none, but I can't seem to do that. (impossibe?) Well if anyone has any idea how to rereate this look, I'd be most interested. Thanks.

  • June 2, 2010 at 6:23 pm #55894
    Colin Flashman

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    think i've come up with a solution…

    i applied a stroke of thick-thick 3pt to all strokes in a table. works but leaves an undesirable big box around the outside. tried playing with various custom keylines to fix the overall table outline to no avail, so made a workaround. from there, made the text box fit the table, copied the text box and put to a layer above and removed the table, then applied a paper keyline to this empty textbox of 2pt.

    it'll work PROVIDED you're happy with the “empty box” workaround to get rid of the ugly big outline around the whole table.

    reminds me of the tax forms we see often here in australia. let us know if this is what you are after.

  • June 2, 2010 at 8:50 pm #55895
    calvinmaas

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    Hey that works for me. I owe you a beverage when we cross paths. So am I correct in assuming that you cannot have a singular stroke that has a double lined attribute with two colors? That would be nice. Well thanks again for the work around.

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