Comments on: Easter Egg Stroke Styles

By: Jongware

Jongware — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:07:50 +0000

Points #1 to #5 don’t work for you, eh?

By: S.VENKATESAN - diacriTech

S.VENKATESAN - diacriTech — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:46:13 +0000

We didn’t know how to create “Easter Egg Stroke Styles” in Indesign CS5. Please list out.

By: Jules

Jules — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:35:22 +0000

I thought the Alien was a Quack contrivance

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:11:38 +0000

“Lights” is great!

If I’d known about that in my last job, I’d have been using it all the time for things like cheap Christmas cards and Christmas brochures, etc.

Thanks for this.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:50:33 +0000

Thanks for the reminder, Dave. There's a post on that here.

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:26:43 +0000

Bear in mind that you can use text on a path to create what look like custom strokes. For example, if you want to indicate a route through a township map, attach an arrow symbol from Zapf Dingbats or draw a fancy arrow and attach it as an inline. Repeat it as many times as you like and set the justification to Full Justification.

Dave

By: David Eisenberg

David Eisenberg — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:46:03 +0000

I did some experimenting. It seems that once you create an Easter Egg stroke style, it is not persistent. However, if you create the style and then use the save button, close the panel and use the load button to reload the style, it is persistent.

Further, the save button creates a file ending in ‘.inst’ (on windows). It should be possible to create custom strokes if one knows the specs for these stroke style files.

By: F vd Geest

F vd Geest — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:36:51 +0000

The Friendly Alien is also still there!

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:27:18 +0000

Slightly cool, thanks. But what I wonder about Easter Eggs is this: how the heck to people find out about them?! Do the programmers just let this secret stuff “slip out” when they’re having a beer with buddies? Surely no one sits at their PC and tries out zillions of weird words for line styles — like “Woof, Happy, Feet, or Lights” — just to see if something odd happens? So out with it, David: did you slip an Adobe programmer a mickey-finn — or what?