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jp91306
Participant
October 9, 2025
Question

"Border Art" for frames - Source for Additions styles ???

  • October 9, 2025
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I have been a PS user for years, but am just now beginning to use InDesign.

 

I may be so new at this application that I might get this question posted wrong, but I will try.

 

My first real project is to convert an existing in-house newsletter from MS Publisher, to InDesign.

For the most part this has gone well.

The older publication has used "border art" for the boxes/frames that contain text and/or artwork. Publisher offers a wide range of style options for those. 

 

InDesign does offer a few, and they are modifiiable to some extent...but there doesn't seem to be any path to adding actual "art" or other styles..... (hearts, flowers, etc. ...new or different styles).

 

I suppose my question is...have there been any "packs" or other additional sources created, that would give users more choices?  Is there some process inside of the application for doing this ?

 

 

2 replies

Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 9, 2025

There are some fun styles hidden. For example, name strokes wow, feet, lights, or with a stroke with parallel lines give it the name rainbow. 

Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 9, 2025

Hi JP,

No, InDesign does not approach it this way. If you want decorative art, you build it in either Illustrator or Photoshop and afterwards you File > Place that decorative border art into an InDesign document.

 

Also, and this is lame, but there is this:

https://creativepro.com/easter-egg-stroke-styles/

Mike Witherell