Stroke & Fill / Stroke & Corner Options pt. 2
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Let's go to Path Type, and for that I'm just going to select the line here, although it would work on the rectangle. And we have a lot of built-in options here: Thick Thick Line, Thick Thin Thick Ð that tests me, those th's together Ð and then we can have hash marks like that, dots. Now these will change in their frequency depending on the line. Notice when I put it down to 1 point there are a lot more? If I put it up to 9 points there are only a few. So they will look different based on that. And here you can choose the Start and the Ending Point. I can't see the Start Point because it's the one over on the left, so let me just choose the End Point here and we can put an Arrow on it, Simple Wide, and there we can choose any of these options here. Obviously if I scroll over here I can add one to the Start. Let me just choose one of these options; let's make it an arrow like that, and let's change this back down to a solid line, or nearly solid line, like that. Actually I'm going to go back to the Dashes here, like this, and make my line just a little bit thinner, 1 point like this, and we can see the Gap Color. Now, the Gap Color here is the space in between these dotted lines. At the moment there's nothing there, but we can add a Gap Color. Here we can choose from one of out Swatches and we can choose any color we want for the Gap. Down here we have the Gap Tint. It looks as if it's dimmed out but actually it is operational, so we can just change the shading of the tint, like that, and again, if we change the color to a blue, then the shading of the blue takes on the same tint. If we have a solid line here then obviously the Gap Color and the Gap Tint do not take effect, but if we change to something like the hashes, I'm going to make this a little bit thicker so that we can see it there, then the Tint does come into play. Let me just close this out. I'll go Control or Command zero to go to the full page; I'll delete the line; and I'm going to zoom in on the rectangle here. With it selected, if I go to the Object Menu, I can choose Corner Options. Here we can choose how these corners operate. I'll put the Preview on so that we can see it. At the moment we've got none, but we've got a Fancy one; a Beveled one, but we could obviously have done Bevel through the dialog box we were just in, the Stroke Panel, but we can do it here as well; an Inset one; Inverse Rounded; and then Rounded. Now you can adjust the Size of it. I can just scroll up and make it more dramatic, like that, and of course, this works with any of the effects that we have here as well. Now we're doing this with a solid line, if we were to come back Ð oh, let me click on OK Ð if we were to come back to our Window and choose Stroke then of course, we can add any of these Lines to it and these Corner effects work with them, too.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe InDesign CS4 |
| Author: | Brian White |
| SKU: | 33978 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-36-X |
| Release Date: | 2009-03-31 |
| Duration: | 16.5 hrs / 222 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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