One of the annoyances that I often come across is having the stroke forward by accident. This can be problematic when you are dealing with text. Prior to CS4, problems could occur if you are changing the stroke on your graphic frame, but immediately try to change the color of text. Since you had the stroke forward on your frame, InDesign would keep the stroke forward for the text.
In InDesign CS4 this “problem” have been resolved. When your stroke is forward on a frame InDesign remembers where it is, but as soon as you switch to your type tool the text fill will be forward (if that was its last position). When you are done with the text and switch back to your arrow the stoke will be back in front again.
At first this can seem a little alarming, but I now really enjoy the fact that if I am changing the stroke on a frame, I no longer have to worry about changing the color of my text.
This article was last modified on December 17, 2022
This article was first published on June 11, 2009
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