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• • July 1, 2014 at 10:29 am #69239
    Berton

    Member

    Hi all,

    I’m brand new to InDesign. I am an intern at a community outreach charity, and I’ve been asked to duplicate an existing brochure they have that they lost the design for.

    I believe I am doing most of this correctly, or good enough to make the brochure match until I learn more about InDesign.

    I need to make a textbox with a purple stroke around it. I’ve done that much, but the top border needs to be much wider to accomidate some white text on top. So it’s a plain looking textbox with a wide stroke on top that I can type text into. I’ve drawn and stoked a regular textbox, then added a rectangle on top of the textbox and added another textbox on top of that rectangle to type in white so it shows up.

    Am I doing this correctly?

    Here’s what I need to reproduce: https://i.imgur.com/7yBzGMF.jpg

    Thanks!

  • July 1, 2014 at 11:38 am #69241
    Gert Verrept

    Member

    Just create a textbox as wide as the one below. Type the text you need. Make the text color white. Select the textbox with the black arrow and give it a black fill. Position the as needed.

  • July 1, 2014 at 2:27 pm #69245
    Tom Venetia

    Member

    As gert explained, you need two objects: the main text box (box1) and the one that will contain the header text
    (Your comments…)which I call box2.
    Box1 will have a light stroke in purple color and no fill. Box2 will have a purple fill, no need to stroke it.
    Box2’s width is the same as of box1 and its height depends on the text you will write. Write the text in box2 (white characters),
    adjust the height accordingly.
    Then place box2 over box1 (menu Object > Arrange) and use the “Align” palette to center it horizontally with box1 and vertically
    with box1’s top edge.
    Shift-click on both objects and group them (Ctrl-G in Windows).
    That’s all :-)
    Good luck
    Tom

  • July 3, 2014 at 11:13 am #69294
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    If I understand your question.

    Here is how I might do it. No text boxes needed.

    Make a 2 row 1 column table.

    You can fill the 1st row with color and your heading,

    2nd row you can fill with your body copy. Plus rules are independent of each other and can be any size and color

    Since you are a newbe this would be the best time to learn to make tables.

    ID tables are very versatile.

    Be brave, jump in.

    Tom.

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