From the course: Adobe Pen Tool: Mastery
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Creating inline graphics
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take our independent graphics right here and we will turn them into inline graphics, so they're actually part of the text. And this is another one of those things that you can do inside InDesign that you can't do, at least at the current time, in either Illustrator or Photoshop. So, first thing I'm going to do is get rid of this Command key that I drew inside InDesign, because it's not quite right. The proportions are off, as you can see, the loops are too small, and this central region is too big. So I'm just going to go ahead and get rid of that guy. And then, I'll make a duplicate of this one, because we're going to come back to it, I'm going to show you a couple of different ways to make inline graphics. One is to select the black arrow tool, as I've done in advance, and then go ahead and drag this widget right here, and notice if you hover over it that you can either drag it to make an anchor object, or you can Shift-drag to make an inline…
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Custom symbols and page ornaments4m 16s
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Drawing a custom symbol in InDesign10m 3s
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Drawing in Illustrator and pasting into InDesign13m 35s
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Creating inline graphics8m 34s
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Converting shapes and anchor points7m 46s
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Creating type along a path outline8m 47s
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Creating text around a circle7m 21s
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Creating text inside any path outline4m 31s
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Wrapping text around an offset path8m 52s
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Customizing text converted to outlines10m 4s
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