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Stroke Style on text CC 2018

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    • January 22, 2018 at 4:55 am #101137
      Linus Lohoff
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      Hello Guys,

      I have a text with a stroke. I want to change the stoke with a style, let’s say: dashed. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE!!! I rememember I could do it with older version of Indesign. It is not possible anymore with Indesign CC 2018?

      Or can I change something on the poreferences etc.? For me it is a no-go that I can not change the stroke style on a text without creating an outline of the text. I want that the text is editable and choosing several stroke styles.

      Thanks in advance.

      Linus

    • January 22, 2018 at 1:30 pm #101144
      Claudio Marconato
      Member

      Hi Linus,
      I have several InDesign versions installed on my Mac, no one of that can apply stroke styles to live text.

      Do you remember which version could do this?

    • January 22, 2018 at 2:57 pm #101158
      Graham Park
      Member

      Are you sure you did not outline the text first then add the dashed stroke?
      I think this is the only way you could add this to text in InDesign now in Illustrator you can do this.

    • January 23, 2018 at 1:40 am #101160
      Linus Lohoff
      Member

      Hey guys,

      I confused it maybe with Illustrator. Got also help from the adobe indesign forum and they say it was never possible.

      The only two ways are:

      a) Menu Type > Create Outlines (bad!)

      b) Same menu, press the Alt Key (Windows)/ Option key (?, Mac) and choose Create Outlines . This will create a copy of the text as path exactly over the editable text. Now you can modify the stroke.

      or just with illustrator and appereance panels etc.

      Nevertheless I don’t see the point why it shouldn’t work with editable text on Indesign. Adobe should change that! ;p

      Thx for your answers!!

    • January 23, 2018 at 2:16 am #101161
      Graham Park
      Member

      Adobe can be strange with what features they include in one program and exclude from others.
      Adding the appearance panel from Illustrator to InDesign would be a great.

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