Images for scene breaks in books: glyph-for-image replacement?

[The Patina]

Hi all

I've started to receive an increasing number of requests for pictorial scene breaks in print books, where no useable glyph is available and the only solution would seem to be to do some kind of glyph-for-image replacement.

Has anyone got any suggestions for how to achieve this?

I'm wondering if there's some kind of special paragraph style or GREP combination that could magic this.

To be clear, I've looked at a few options, including trying to create fonts that contain vectors files, based on some images.

Any suggestions or guidance apreciated.

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[vinny38]

Not sure I understood correctly your request but if I did, it looks like a job for Indyfont :

http://www.indiscripts.com/category/projects/IndyFont

[The Patina]

Hi Vinny38. Nice product, but not quite the solution I need. I need to replace font glyphs in scene break styles with actual images (as they don't exist in any font). Sorry about the one!

[Jongware]

Hi (I am the creator of IndyFont.)

A font *is* a thing that contains actual images. There is no 'font' editor in the world where you MUST create an 'A' image for the lettet 'A' -- you can draw anything there!

As I understand your question, you are looking for custom made ornaments. If you can't find a font with suitable ornaments, you can create one yourself -- using a font editor.

(IndyFont is by no means unique in this, but it is designed to work from within a familiar environment for experienced InDesign users.)

[David W. Goodrich]

Have you looked at Rorohiko's Swimmer?

[The Patina]

Hi David. yes, that looks like that might be an option. Will give it a go and report back!