Posts Tagged with ‘object styles’

Make an Object Style specify frame width

May 5 2011 • 9:15 PM

Here’s a sneaky way to specify frame width as part of an Object Style.

New Script for Applying Object Styles While Placing Images in CS5

January 30 2011 • 8:53 AM

CS5 users can now apply object styles as needed while placing images, with the aid of a new script.

InDesign Object Styles Convert to DIV classes in EPUB Export

October 22 2010 • 10:24 AM

Paragraph and character styles convert to classes, so why shouldn’t object styles convert, too?

Color By Frame

June 29 2010 • 8:52 AM

Officially text frame attributes can control the fill and stroke of the frame, but they can’t control the color the text inside them… or can they?

An interesting use for Style Groups

April 5 2010 • 1:16 PM

Style Groups, introduced in InDesign CS3, are sometimes used to keep Styles panels organized. But a client showed me another clever use for style groups last week.

Making a Vertical Line to the Side of a Paragraph

June 4 2009 • 12:28 AM

Need to draw a vertical bar along the left side of some text? Here are three techniques you should try!

Applying an Object Style when Placing an Image

November 12 2008 • 9:12 AM

This undocumented CS4 feature is so cool. You have to know about it.

The Useless Drop Shadow Button

November 6 2008 • 6:32 AM

How can you make use of the Control panel drop shadow button and use your own custom settings? Unfortunately, you can’t.