Custom Strokes & .inst file types

Question

Hi all! Ok, so...I'm wanting to create my own custom (non-geometric) stroke to use as an underline stroke.  Ideally, the use of that stoke will be as an underline, object frame, or ruler in paragraph styles and maybe tables.   I've seen the custom stokes you can make in InDesign but it does not create the kind of line quality I'm looking for.   I've also read that you can load your own strokes but the file needs to be a .int type. My questions are,What program to use in order to be able to create an .int file type?  Is there another way to load custom strokes to inDesign?  Thank you all so much! I haen't been able to figure this out!

Eugene Tyson · Accepted Answer

Sure! Underline Something like that. Thanks!Yeh that would likely be not possible with conventional InDesign methods

Mike Witherell · Answer

Stroke styles are saved as .inst files. This is done entirely within InDesign's Stroke panel > panel menu button > Stroke Styles dialog box. There you can design, edit, save, and load (which implies importing and exporting the .inst files.

Bear in mind that the line style editor is limited to, well, lines: solid, dotted, dashed, or multiple lines. If you are looking for more adventurous decoration, maybe you can design it in Illustrator, and File > Place it into InDesign. Welcome to Manualville. But hey, keep it simple!

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