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• • August 17, 2017 at 12:58 am #96817
    Anonymous

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    Hello All,

    I KNOW InDesign isn’t meant to be used for vector graphics. But the events turned out that I have to use them. My personal reason for trying not to use them in the first place is the very silly way InDesign handles strokes. It “objectifies” the stroke, i.e. guides will snap both the edges of the stroke widths AND the vector itself. Illustrator, for instance, ignores the appearance of strokes and only recognizes the vector itself when it comes to magnetizing, snapping, or anything else. Which is the sane behavior IMO.

    So is there a way to make InDesign handle vectors like Illustrator does, in this sense?

  • August 22, 2017 at 5:53 am #96966
    Masood Ahmad

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    No, there’s nothing like that in InDesign. Since both the applications are different, so is their behaviour.

  • August 22, 2017 at 9:19 am #96985
    Anonymous

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    Hi Masood, thanks for your reply. I thought it would be so.

    I agree both applications are different, but ever since Adobe bought these programs, they worked to shape them to resemble one another; the interface is very similar, the way to display vectors and text are very much alike; I say, go all the way and make the small anecdotic details behave the same way across ID/AI. It will really help with using both the apps together and reduce confusion for beginners.

    I should compile a list of those incoherences when I have time to lose, but the other one which comes to mind is, you can group ruler guides in Illustrator, but you can’t in InDesign… any valid reason for this? :)

    Anyway, thanks for your time

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