Adjustable InDesign Decorative Box

Question

I was curious if anyone knew of a way to make a decorative box in InDesign adjustable automatically as opposed to having to adjust the corners and lines individually. I'm not sure if there is a way in InDesign so I could adjust the box like a regular plain box. I do know there are ways to do this with the stroke but haven't found a way that will incorporate the decorative corners as well. I attached an example of a decorative box that I'm talking about. I've tried grouping them together but I need the corners to stay the same size and have different ratio boxes.

Scott Falkner · Answer

Without seeing the box you are trying to create it is impossible to solve your problem. Something that might work is using the Direct Select tool (white arrow, shortcut A) and drawing a selection rectangle around half of the shape so only, say, the top left and top right corners are selected. Now you can move the selection up or down to make the box taller or shorter. Repeat for one side to adjust width.

Another option would be to use Illustrator and Brushes, which can be quite versatile.

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