From the course: InDesign Secrets
330 Add corner brackets around a frame - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
330 Add corner brackets around a frame
- [Instructor] You know that you can add a stroke around a whole frame, but what if you want to add a stroke just to the corners of a frame, like this frame over here. Well, here's how to do it. I'm going to use this frame over here on the right to practice with. Now you'll see I already applied a stroke to this whole frame. And I made it four points thick. Now I want to turn it into a dashed stroke. So, I'll head over here to the Stroke panel. And when I open that, you'll see I have my 4 pt, normal, solid stroke. But in this case, I'm going to change the Type popup menu from Solid to Dashed. Now, I don't mean the dashed strokes up here, where it says Dashed (3 and 2) or Dashed (4 and 4). I'm talking about the Dashed at the very bottom. Now when you choose that, it opens up a super-secret section at the bottom of the panel. And here, you can type in exactly how long you want your dash and your gap to be. In this case, I'm going to change the dash to, say, 48 pt. Now, you'll see that I have my corner brackets, but I also have these dashes in the middle. I want to get rid of those. Also, if I look closely at these corner brackets, there a little bit uneven. One side is longer than the other and I don't like that. The next step is to change the gap, this second field, and apply the largest gap you can, which is 800 pt. Then, you want to change the Corners popup menu to Adjust gaps. That means, allow InDesign to change the width of the gaps however much it wants to, to make it fit, but don't change the width of the dash. And the result is perfect. Corner brackets on each corner of this frame. Let's go ahead and close the Stroke panel and you can see. And the awesome thing is that we can change the size of the frame to whatever we want and the brackets keep working.
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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