Reply To: Custon strokes in Object styles

Hey, I’m on a winner this time!

The third image shows what happens when I try to create an object style, showing in particular the Stroke section of the Object Style Options dialog box. https://members.ozemail.com.au/~pardy/indesign/InDesignScreenSnapz005.jpg. There is no provision here for specifying dash length and gap length (though that is very possible in the Stroke pallet) and that seems to be the problem.

If I use the fly-out menu in the Stroke pallet to create a custom dashed line, the space it gives for creating the dashed and gaps is a curious width, 8.467mm. If I want nice even dashes for the full length of the line, I need to divide that space into equal dashes and spaces such that it ends with a space, otherwise I get a “lumpy” line. Such mathematical tricks make my brain hurt!

So have resorted to creating one line, copying and pasting it and then manipulating the end points of the pasted line to be where I want them to be. It all seems very UN-InDesign!