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• • January 16, 2010 at 8:05 pm #54510
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Check out InGutter: https://www.indiscripts.com/pos…..-beta-test

    Also, Typefi's AutoFit can work: https://creativepro.com/free

    (I did a movie about how to do this with AutoFit at Lynda.com)

  • January 17, 2010 at 12:16 am #54500
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    I sure hope all you geniuses can help me.

    The following screenshot is of a table I created for a book I will be be doing. There are gonna be hundreds of them. It's a cookbook and the ingredients are all double-column in a shaded box. My problem is the dotted line in between the two columns. I need them to extend to the top and bottom edges of the shaded box. I figured out out a way to trick ID into making the corners rounded, but I can’t find a way to extend those dotted rules in between the columns to the top and bottom edges. I used ID's table feature to put in the column rule.

    The designer just simply slapped a shaded box over it and drew in the white dotted line, but I know I can't do it that way. It would take forever to page it that way and would be a nightmare when there is reflow in 2nd pass.

    Any ideas? If it’s something simple, I’m gonna kick myself in the butt…

    And to reiterate–I have it set up as an in-line table.

    Thanks in advance.

    Here's the snapshot:

    

    NOTE: The rule in question is the white one in the shaded box, not the dotted rule on the right. That dotted rule is on master pages and runs the entire height of the page and and is not relevant.

  • January 17, 2010 at 9:39 am #54512
    Bob Levine

    Participant

    I'll make the assumption that you've created a text frame with the table in it and cut/pasted it into a new frame with rounded corners. If so, why not just make the table a bit larger and let the frame crop it down.

    Seems like the easiest way to handle it.

  • January 17, 2010 at 4:53 pm #54513
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    Thanks, David. I'll check out those links.

    Bob–actually I created a table and made my cell fill 15 percent black. And I put a 13 point dotted rule (and gap) as the table border of the same color, so it gives the appearance of rounded corners.

    Here's a better picture, as the other one wasn't the greatest (and I made the dotted rule black for now):

    

    I have my column stroke to be in front, but it seems that it still stays covered by the dotted rule border. If I get rid of the border the dotted rule goes to top and bottom edge. But then I am stuck with the square frame.

    I will try pasting the table into a rounded frame, but I was hoping I could use the table feature and trick it with the dotted rule border to create rounded corners.

    Note: The cell insets are zero top and bottom.

  • January 17, 2010 at 5:28 pm #54514
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    Okay, I figured it out. I took off the dotted border that was around the entire table. Instead I put the dotted border on the outside of the first cell and on the outside of the second.

    Here's what it looks like (dotted rule will be white though), and I still need to tweak the size of the dotted border for roundness.

    

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