InDesign Help, Por Favor 66 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Aug 29, 08, 3:18 p.m.

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• dog_opus

  This is pretty embarrassing, but I don't remember how to reverse out my type in InDesign (CS3). I'm looking to have a solid text frame background over an illustration with the text knocked out. I could do it pretty quickly with pathfinder or in Illustrator, but I know there's a better way (just can't remember!). Thanks, and please keep the derision to a minimum.

  Aug 29, 08, 3:18 p.m. – Permalink

• lajj

  select your type box, create outline, place image inside that !

  • type box = text box...– lajj1/2

    indesign has pathfinder too– epete222/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 29, 08, 3:24 p.m. – Permalink

• kodap

  text frame options

  

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  Dog-earAug 29, 08, 3:29 p.m. – Permalink

• vanilla_cam

  regardless, i believe you're going to have to convert text to outlines and make a compound path, no? and place image inside of text or knock out of box

  

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  Dog-earAug 29, 08, 3:29 p.m. – Permalink

• lajj

  you dont have to make it a compound path but you have to create outline tho.
  after that just select your outlined text box and hit cmd + D to import an image inside the type.

  

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  Dog-earAug 29, 08, 3:32 p.m. – Permalink

• dog_opus

  Thanks for the response, guys. See, here's the thing: I have a program cover with an illustration taking up the top half of the page. I want a solid colored vertical bar on the right with the event title text punched through. For some reason, I thought there was an easy way to do it, but I'm thinking that I might have to convert it to outlines and subtract from shape. I'm kind of borderline OCD, so when I think I know about a way to do something, I'll go nuts trying to figure it out. haha

  • sorry, didn't read this before my post.
    meh. it could be harder.
    – Gucci

  

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  Dog-earAug 29, 08, 4:18 p.m. – Permalink

• Gucci

  outline the type.
  put it over the bar.
  hit cmd + 8 (mac) and you'll create a compound path of it.
  or, if compound paths scare you, just use the pathfinder palette and "subtract front"

  • Actually, I laugh in the face of the fearsome compound path! Thanks, Gucci!– dog_opus

  

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  Dog-earAug 29, 08, 4:29 p.m. – Permalink