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Text stroke instead of regular strokes!

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    • July 2, 2018 at 11:58 pm #104731
      Masoud Moghaddam
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      Hi

      I’m sure InDesign doesn’t have any features in its “Stroke Panel” to create and using text stroke instead of regular strokes (dots, dash,…). I’d like to create text strokes as borders for some images, and I think it can be nice and useful in some situations and hope InDesign team provides a feature to using words or letters to create text strokes. But know, do you know any scripts for it?

      Thank you

    • July 3, 2018 at 12:42 am #104732
      Graham Park
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      Have you tried using the TYPE ON A PATH tool? Then you can add whatever text you want as a stroke or boarder.

      • July 3, 2018 at 1:35 am #104733
        Masoud Moghaddam
        Member

        Type on a Path Tool is a cool tool, but the result is not perfect and great for it. For example, I type and copy a word or a short phrase by it around an image, the repetitive words in the bottom line of an image is inverted ones and can’t read or recognize easily what they are and seems bad.

        Also, I checked out “Type on a Path Options” and manipulated the features, but didn’t answer as I wish.
        Another thing is corners when words meet each other in corners of an image. Their letters break and separate badly, and doesn’t give us a clean, without break of letters.

    • July 3, 2018 at 1:40 am #104734
      Graham Park
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      This is why letter used as a boarder are not a good option accept in very rare cases.
      It can work OK if you round the corners.

      • July 3, 2018 at 6:32 am #104735
        Masoud Moghaddam
        Member

        Yes, round corners work well and the result better than before (default corners), but It’s still the bottom side of the image (in rectangularly form) shows the inverted word. In this situation, we can duplicate the type on a path and flip the words (need to delete the words on top, right and left sides and keep the words in the bottom side) on the second path and put behind the first path. This is a little complex and time-wasting job to get a nice result, especially to work on many images. Thanks, Graham

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