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Using Pathfinder and compound paths

Using Pathfinder and compound paths - InDesign Tutorial

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Using Pathfinder and compound paths

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Everyone knows how to make a frame in the shape of a circle. You just use the Ellipse Frame Tool or, you could use the Ellipse Tool, then you simply drag out your shape. If I hold down the Shift key, I make sure that it's constrained with a height and width. That ensures that it's a circle. Let's go ahead and fill this with a color. I'll go to the Control Panel and fill it with cyan. So that looks good. But what if I wanted to make this the shape of a doughnut? In other words, how do you make a hole in the middle of an object? Well, the trick is to make a compound path. That's a path that actually contains more than one path. To do that, I need a second path. So while the Ellipse Tool is still selected, I'll draw out a second circle. Of course to make this a good looking doughnut, I need to align those horizontally and vertically. So I'll switch back to the Selection Tool by pressing the V key, drag out over both of them to select them both, and then go to my Align panel. I can find…

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