How to create a knockout stroke around text in InDesign CS6

[TomKC]

I have an oval with text on top of it. I want to make the stroke around the text transparent so you see the background through the space between the text and the oval but I'm not sure how to get this done in InDesign and I don't know Illustrator well enough to do it in there.

I could take it into Photoshop and simple erase the stroke but then it's no longer a vector.

[Sandee Cohen]

I just tried to replicate the logo in Illy and it's a LOT harder than you would think. There's a trick going on with the stroke that Illy doesn't understand when converting.

I could do it, but it would take quite a few hours. And that's the kind of work I charge for.

[Jeffrey_Smith]

In Illustrator, Object > Path > Outline Stroke. The outer edge of a stroke does not work to create new shapes when using the pathfinder.

[Sandee Cohen]

Jeffrey,

You can get the stroke in Illustrator to work with the Pathfinders in Illustrator by using the Expand command to turn them into filled objects. The problem is the stroke in the swoosh doesn’t convert to filled object with the effect. I’d have to do it with a custom stroke in Illy and I hate to try to replicate a designers work. I like to just cut, paste, etc.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

24-hours discussion to do it in 1 minute!

TomKC,

Just create your logo in ID with a white stroke, export to pdf, send us your file and Sandee just does it into AI playing with stroke vectorizing and pathfinder (2 clicks), copying/back-pasting the path into ID and send you this file!

A beautiful vectorized logo into ID

(^/)

[Eternal Warrior]

That's what I've just done

[Sandee Cohen]

It’s not that easy.

As Eternal Warrior didn’t see, there is a variable effect on the green swoosh that doesn’t come through by just clip, snip, pathfinder, tah-dah!

[Eternal Warrior]

Hmm... funny cause I did it in 20 mins...

[Sandee Cohen]

A better man than I. Perhaps you should take the name “VectorMan”

[Eternal Warrior]

Ok done done and done this time with various versions and everything...

Hopefully Obi-Wan won't find any flaws this time....

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[Obi-wan Kenobi]

… Kerning between letters could be better!

(^/) 

[Eternal Warrior]

Hahaha!! Ok.. Now I'm learning why we offer answers rather than actually helping people with the work itself

I tried comparing it against the photos provided and it matched pretty much perfectly if the kerning is off I blame whoever made the logo in the first place

Besides all I did was make a vector duplicate of someone else's work...blame them!! Hehehe