Making a box - sounds simple, I know.

[val]

I can not figure out how to draw a box with say 3 point purple stroke, paper fill -- with the middle removed of the stroke. I made a 2nd box with just paper, put on top of the purple stroked box, tried all different settings with pathfinder but it doesn't leave the shape as I need it. There is also a screen/graphic that goes behind the box, so the white middle section going through the stroke can't go beyond the box. I know I can group them, but I need a lot on a page, so doing that creates a huge lag. Is there a way to get what I want without grouping? I have attached a pic of what I am trying to do (ignore the screen background -- that is just to show the white middle doesn't go beyond the box). 

Sorry, if I am just missing a really simple solution to this. I appreciate your help -- I am stumped!

Valerie

[John Kramer Design]

Would Object > Paths > Make Compound Path do what you want it to do?

[judy hicks]

I don’t think you can do it without two objects (draw 2 unclosed paths with 3pt rule on three sides/white bg — add white fill w/no stroke behind). This is a tiny ai file, if imported into InDesign as an eps/placed file, it shouldn’t really affect the loading time.

Judy

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Judy Hicks

Plush Design

1374 Ocean Avenue

Emeryville, CA 94608

510.545.3060

www.plushdesign.net

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[Kenneth Darby]

Make a box at the size you need.
Copy it and paste in place twice.
Fill top object with white and send to back.
Select all.
Shift deselect on the white object. This leaves the two unfilled shape selected
Repeat so that one shape is selected.
Subtract 0p3 from width and height dimemsions.
Select all again and deselect the white object again.
Make compound.
Fill with magenta.
Draw your white object as the knife.
Select magenta and the knife and use whichever pathfinder function is appropriate. I think "minus front."

[David Blatner]

I wonder if this tip using Stroke Styles would help:

https://indesignsecrets.com/tip-week-corner-stroke-effects.php

[val]

Thank you, but that did not work.

[val]

YES!! This worked perfectly. Took a bit to get the style the correct size, but finally got a perfect result. Thank you so much!!!

[val]

I haven't tried this one yet, as the styled stroke work, but I will out of curiosity. Thank you for your suggestion :)

[val]

I was trying to avoid importing files, as there would be a lot of them. I do appreciate you making the file, as I would have used your idea if David's suggestion of the stroke style didn't work.

Thank you! You guys are the best!!!

On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 3:50:09 PM UTC-5, judy hicks wrote:

I don’t think you can do it without two objects (draw 2 unclosed paths with 3pt rule on three sides/white bg — add white fill w/no stroke behind). This is a tiny ai file, if imported into InDesign as an eps/placed file, it shouldn’t really affect the loading time.

Judy

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Judy Hicks

Plush Design

1374 Ocean Avenue

Emeryville, CA 94608

510.545.3060

www.plushdesign.net

On Sep 18, 2019, 11:30 AM -0700, val <val...@gmail.com>, wrote:

I can not figure out how to draw a box with say 3 point purple stroke, paper fill -- with the middle removed of the stroke. I made a 2nd box with just paper, put on top of the purple stroked box, tried all different settings with pathfinder but it doesn't leave the shape as I need it. There is also a screen/graphic that goes behind the box, so the white middle section going through the stroke can't go beyond the box. I know I can group them, but I need a lot on a page, so doing that creates a huge lag. Is there a way to get what I want without grouping? I have attached a pic of what I am trying to do (ignore the screen background -- that is just to show the white middle doesn't go beyond the box). 

Sorry, if I am just missing a really simple solution to this. I appreciate your help -- I am stumped!

Valerie

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[Christophe Dhélin]

[Robert Wexler]

Hi list,

I'm placing a lot of photos in a book. I've already made them all 300dpi. Most of the photos are larger than they will be in the pages. Do I need to make the image/tiff file match the size in InDesign? If I understand correctly, reducing them in InDesign makes their print dpi go up, which would make it go up past 300dpi. Does that matter? Obviously, it will take me a lot less time if I don't have to re-size everything in Photoshop after sizing in InDesign.

Thanks,
Robert

[John Kramer]

Using as is will be fine. No harm in higher res.
Only issues would be lower res from significant enlarging.

John

[Betty Taylor]

You should be able to keep the files as is. When you make a PDF to send to the printer, the PDF settings will downsize images above a certain resolution. 

If the files are huge, it may slow down the file as you work on it. Change your View Menu>>Display Performance to Typical instead of High Quality Display to speed things up. Your images won't look as good on screen, but will print the same high quality.

Betty Taylor

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[Robert Wexler]

Thanks.  I've always re-sized original art, whether up or down, but have never done a book with this much art.

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