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How to Round Corners for Paragraph Background Pinstripes in InDesign

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September 15, 2024
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Paragraph pinstripe(backgroud): is there any way to make these two corners automatic rounded corners?

carriage return？

That's too much trouble, there's a lot of it.

backgroud.zip

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Eugene Tyson

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I'm not really sure about the pinstripes thing you're trying to achieve

But I think I broke/forced InDesign to behave.

Attached is a sample document.

I was trying to anchor a text frame at the top of the text - and when I did this - both text frames with the same paragraph style went round as requested.

I deleted the anchored object - and it stays and works as you'd expect.

All I was trying to do was seeing if an anchored object at the start of the text frame could be anchored in a way that obscured the round edge at the bottom.

And similarly for the right hand connected page - see if I could anchor an object to the bottom paragraph to align to the top.

But as soon as I anchored the first object on the left page - it seemed to round/straighten out the shading - even when reflowing

But seems to quirk back like a glitch depending on the reflow

How odd!

Untitled-2.zip

dubloveAuthor

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Hello Eugene Tyson.
Thank you very much.

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I may have figured it out, but would still like to see your example.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Yeh I will need to access the computer I made it on which was Mac but not near that now.

I'm on windows laptop at the moment - lets give it a go

This is very bizarre behaviour

You can see the anchored object it's anchored at the very first line.

Earlier it worked on the mac by anchoring to the bottom of the frame - maybe that still works.

But as soon as I put it at the top with a Negative Inline amount - it forces the roundness...

Weird

Untitled-1.zip

rob day

Community Expert

carriage return？

Yes. Paragraph shading is a Paragraph format, so you would have to end the paragraph with a return.

An Object Style applied to the text frame might be better:

backgroudAlt.zip

dubloveAuthor

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Hi rob day~

Thank you very much.

Controlling with object styles is a good way to do this.

It's just that I have other paragraphs in the same text box that don't need underlining.

I remember what I used to do:
Hit a carriage return at the very top, or bottom of the page to make a paragraph.

It's all a pain in the ass.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Add this to your paragraph style: Turn on Keep Options > Keep Lines Together > At Start/End of Paragraph: 2 and 2

I don't know why it works, but it works.

Mike Witherell

dubloveAuthor

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@Mike Witherell

Do you have an example would like to share?

Thank you.

Add this to your paragraph style: Turn on Keep Options > Keep Lines Together > At Start/End of Paragraph: 2 and 2
I don't know why it works, but it works.

By @Mike Witherell

Scott Falkner

Community Expert

Not that I can see. Odd, since there is an option for paragraph rules. Click on image for enlargement.

If you look carefully at the corners you will see the shading has sharp corners at the bottom but the rules do not.

It looks like you will need to create two (or maybe three) styles: one for paragraphs that don’t span column breaks, and one for those that do (or perhaps one for the paragraph at the bottom of the column and one for the paragraph at the top of the column. You will have to insert paragraph breaks where necessary and the alternate style.

Alternatively you can use paragraph rules instead of shading and turn on “Display Border if Paragraph Splits Across Frames/Columns,” which is what I did in the above example.

dubloveAuthor

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My example is two text boxes.
The first one at the end of the text box and the second one at the beginning.
I'm using a paragraph background.

Lukas Engqvist

Community Expert

If it is a paragraph flowing from the one to the other, then not having it rounded is a more clear signal to the reader that they are in the middle of the text. If the corners are in the middle of a paragraph this is reasonable.
If you add a return at the end of frame one it will mean you get round corners in the right column.
Another alternatives is to have the frame itself with the same rounding and, use "clip to frame"

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Create a paragraph style.

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