Comments on: How to Add a .75 pt Stroke Preset

by: Alex

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:58:24 +0000

I still don’t really understand why an object style isnt want you want here. If you set-up an object style and use quick apply, does that make it happen quick and easy?

by: Al Ferrari

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:59:16 +0000

How about just having a .75 point rule on the master page and using the eyedropper?

by: Eugene

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:11:25 +0000

John I do a lot of works with tables where different strokes are needed at different weights.

I would use CTRL ALT for .75 pt line widths and use the addition of 8,4,6,2 for the different sides (as seen on the number pad).

Similarly I would use CTRL ALT SHIFT plus the numbers to apply the appropriate cell side.

You could use 7, 9, 1, 3 for top left, bottom left, bottom right.

And 5 could be for all sides.

It works surprisingly well, and the number pad is a great visual for when working with cell styles and the sides of cells.

by: John

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:45:17 +0000

cell styles might work. I have some cells that need JUST the bottom line 1.5, the rest .75. Then others that have just the right edge 1.5. It depends. I’d have to make a zillion presets and it would end up being just a big a mess. That Quark trick is what I had in mind, I read that years ago. That’s the kind of thing I thought might be around in ID. Why ID skips the .75 and others when clicking makes no sense to me either. Those little nags add up on a 400 page document.

by: Anne-Marie

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:06:06 +0000

If you’re using these exclusively in tables, John, wouldn’t it be faster to just create a cell style you could apply to full rows or columns that uses the 1.5 (or .75 rule, or both — one for vertical and the other for horizontal) as necessary?

Like a character style, with cell styles you don’t have to specify anything else, just the stroke width.

by: low Jackson

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:51:59 +0000

Peter, you can find & replace an INX file - but since john needs to apply 2 different styles it would make searching more awkward, I’m sure you could find some pattern to search.

by: Peter Kemp

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:58:04 +0000

Back in the old Quark days, there was a trick where you had to go into the actual Quark code and add whatever line weights you wanted and they showed in the line dialog. It’s been too long ago for me to remember the process but maybe someone does and I wonder if a similar process might work in ID.

Close to the same subject, why, when you click on the down arrow to change the line weight, does ID jump from 1 point to 0 point, skipping .5 and .25?

by: low Jackson

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:50:10 +0000

I’d give in and do it with styles, but adding a keyboard shortcut(s) to apply them quicker.

by: Klaus Nordby

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:54:10 +0000

OK, I’ve not submitted any lunatic ideas lately, so it’s about time. Produce everything in your document 200% larger than the final printed size. Then you’ll have access to the 3pt stroke preset which will make for a fine 1.5pt stroke at 50% output.

Well, at least I win today’s Originality Prize, right?

by: David Blatner

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:43:01 +0000

Brian: Oh! Yes, that makes sense. Thanks for that. Don’t know where my brain was.