How to color overlapping text in InDesign?

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    • June 28, 2016 at 3:38 pm #86137
      DesignOrNotDesign
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      Hi,

      i have box1 with text1 in color1 and another box2 with text2 in color2.
      both texts are arranged so that they overlap. now i want to give the intersecting/overlapping parts of the text/letters a different color3.
      how can i achieve this?

      (with photoshop this is easy but only possible, if the text layers are rasterised, and then they won’t scale anymore)

      thank you in advance

    • June 28, 2016 at 4:01 pm #86139
      Ari Singer
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      You have to convert the text to outlines, and then use pathfinder operations to achieve the result you want.

    • June 29, 2016 at 12:38 pm #86167
      Kelly Vaughn
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      You can also use a landing mode on text1 frame. But then you’d have to understand how blending modes work in order to get the color you want. But it’s worth experimenting.

    • June 30, 2016 at 10:54 pm #86188
      Sanjay Sharma
      Member

      Try experiment with blending modes in text1 and you will get your desired result.

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