HOW TO MAKE A DASHED OUTLINE OF A LETTER- PLEASE [DIETY]

[AhavaEchad]

hey pleaseee

I NEED FOR EXAMPLE THE LETTER "A" OUTLINED-

so i make the outline black // and the inside is white/paper

so now the A is outlined

but then how do make the outline dashed-

like a connect the dots for kids

the A would be outlined dotted or dashed so that you can trace it

pleaseeeeeeee &

thank youuuuuu

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[Bill Silbert · Accepted solution]

See screen shots:

or:

Set Stroke Panel as shown.

[AhavaEchad]

thank you so much for responding and responding so quickly!

i cant replicate-

here is a screen shot-

those options are not clickable for some reason

[Steve Werner]

There are two ways to outline a letter. You selected the text. Instead, select the frame around the letter A with the Selection tool and choose Type > Create Outlines. Then you can do it.

[AhavaEchad]

thank you so so much! you so simply and concisely explained the part i was missing. i will credit you all in the final book!

[Laubender]

Hi Ahava,

did you notice that Bill built his sample of a character that was converted to a path object?
Then all kind of strokes are available.

As you discovered with editable text there are restrictions…

Regards,
Uwe

[AhavaEchad]

ha- yes! now i see it - thank you so much!! i will credit you all in the final book!

[Bill Silbert]

Your post seemed to be saying that you had already converted the type to outlines so I didn’t include that. Once you do that (the option for that is under the Type Menu) then you can apply the strokes as shown.

[AhavaEchad]

ahh yes i wasnt as clear i should have been- i did not know there was an option like that- now i got it- thank you so so much!! i will credit and thank you in the final book!

[vinny38]

Hi

By the way, if you want to keep your text editable, you can create it in Illustrator.

Illustrator allows you to add a custom stroke to live text (and soooo much more).

Then place (NOT paste) your illustrator file into Indesign and edit it if you want to modify it.

[AhavaEchad]

wow thank you soo so much!

yess this would be amazing- live text-

i may look into getting illustrator then- cause right now i have the single plan for indesign