This is sort of a bogus solution.The best method would be to create your outline text in a program like Illustrator or CorelDRAW and Save/Export it in your favorite flavor for placed images. That way you cannot only apply strokes (and some fancy ones at that), your original text remains fully editable and you can apply dozens of other transformations (fit to a curve, perspective,etc.) at the same time.
Do people still use Quark? I moved over to InDesign some 5 years ago with CS1, and have never looked back, at the time the gap between the 2 was cosmic, with InDesign bringing tables, layers, native PDF support, PSD support, Quark on the other hand was still working on more than 1 undo... sometimes. I used to love that if you grouped objects and scaled them, that was it, no going back!
I understand that there is a "new" version of Quark, but every time I read about it's "new" features I find my self shaking my head and going "but we have had that for years in InDesign"
So bringing it back to the story, "Creating this effect in Quark XPress" what effect? I was waiting for something to load? I thought that the beta of Safari 4 was failing me, where is this effect?
Stroke around type wow-fricking-hoo. And the best thing, what to stroke outside, thats a trip to Preferences! But what if I don't what my whole document to do that, just this one thing....
Any way to apply a stroke and custom text color w/o converting the text to outlines? InDesign does this, and it's something I've gotten quite used to. It seems pretty basic of a feature to me.
Better yet...
This is sort of a bogus solution.The best method would be to create your outline text in a program like Illustrator or CorelDRAW and Save/Export it in your favorite flavor for placed images. That way you cannot only apply strokes (and some fancy ones at that), your original text remains fully editable and you can apply dozens of other transformations (fit to a curve, perspective,etc.) at the same time.
Even better still!!!
Do people still use Quark? I moved over to InDesign some 5 years ago with CS1, and have never looked back, at the time the gap between the 2 was cosmic, with InDesign bringing tables, layers, native PDF support, PSD support, Quark on the other hand was still working on more than 1 undo... sometimes. I used to love that if you grouped objects and scaled them, that was it, no going back!
I understand that there is a "new" version of Quark, but every time I read about it's "new" features I find my self shaking my head and going "but we have had that for years in InDesign"
So bringing it back to the story, "Creating this effect in Quark XPress" what effect? I was waiting for something to load? I thought that the beta of Safari 4 was failing me, where is this effect?
Stroke around type wow-fricking-hoo. And the best thing, what to stroke outside, thats a trip to Preferences! But what if I don't what my whole document to do that, just this one thing....
What a joke.
thanks!
Works perfectly... You have no idea how much time I spent of this, trying to add strokes... Thanks really again!
-Julien
Why the need to convert to vector?
Any way to apply a stroke and custom text color w/o converting the text to outlines? InDesign does this, and it's something I've gotten quite used to. It seems pretty basic of a feature to me.