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    • March 10, 2010 at 4:35 pm #55121
      Josh Freeman
      Member

      Earlier today I tried to set up an object style for some caption panels that worked as follows:

      • Solid color background (normal rectangular shaped frame)

      • Dotted border inset .25″ inside the edge of the colored background

      • Text inset .25″ inside that dotted border

      In my fantasy, this would all be set up with a single click. In practice I had to create two object styles — one for the background frame and one for the text frame with the border. Is there actually a way to do this as a single object style?

    • March 10, 2010 at 4:40 pm #55122
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Tricky… this might take you part of the way there:

      https://creativepro.com/how…..-frame.php

      but I don't think you could do it with a dash…

    • March 10, 2010 at 5:07 pm #55124
      Josh Freeman
      Member

      Yep. That's as far as I got — same page. I thought I'd found the secret, but the lack of dots killed it. Oh, well. I knew if it were possible, this would be the place where somebody would know how to pull it off.

      Thanks!

    • March 11, 2010 at 3:21 pm #55133
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      I don't think this will totally suit your needs, as it has no problems automatically expanding vertically, but horizontally is a bit more complicated (you have to remember to drag the right guide):

      Make it a table.

      Create a table, 3 columns, 3 rows. Set the row height of the top and bottom row to exactly the inset value you want (you might have to set the cell insets to 0 all around before ID allows you to make it very small). Do same for the leftmost and rightmost columns. Then give the inner cell the dotted outline you want, and add some cell insets all around, so your text won't be flush against the dotted border.

    • March 11, 2010 at 4:11 pm #55134
      Josh Freeman
      Member

      Brilliant. That'll do it! Thanks!

    • March 16, 2010 at 3:21 am #55174
      Tim Hughes
      Member

      It is not a clean border, ie. it has soft corners, but if you give your frame a dashed stroke with the same coloured gap as the frame fill colour, then use outer glow at 100% and also the frame fill colour. Voila!

      Yes the corner is a bit soft (rounded) it works great if you have rounded corners anyway, and can be saved as an Object style.

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