Can a script do this?

Hi, 

I meant like Expand in Illustrator

example: > >

By @Mendi M

Something like that - easy:

1) create "outside" circle,

2) create "inside" circle,

3) subtract.

But if you have something more complicated - you need to show it first - it might be possible.

Hi @Mendi M ,

it's not done straight forward. But it's doable.

In fact, Olav Martin Kvern did one about ten years ago and it should still work.

It's exploiting the text wrap feature of InDesign where one could define a custom path for wrapping text. Let's see if we can still find the script named OffsetPath.jsx.

It was part of Ole's CAD scripts suite. Ah, found it:

https://www.siliconpublishing.com/blog/free-indesign-scripts/

Hm. For your purpose you will run it perhaps two times on the same object to get the outer path and the other time to get the inner path and then use InDesign's pathfinder tool to create the desired object.

Just test OffsetPath.jsx and let us know how it goes.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )