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Anonymous

Question

Outline view in InDesign is missing

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
July 7, 2009
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Hi

I wanted to post a feature is missing in InDesign CS3, View Outlines that we have in Illustrator is missing in InDesign.

I was shocked to see it is not exicst, what Adobe has the say about that?

It's a must feature !!!

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marcthiele

Participant

Where can I vote for this feature? ;)

Peter Spier

Community Expert

see post 14

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rpollack-2

Known Participant

I wounldn't mind seeing this feature in InDesign. We do a lot of line-art illustrations. One of the nice features of ID CS4 is that I can "copy" and "paste" a line art illustration from Illustrator directly into ID. I don't have to keep or link to the Illustrator file. When I paste the line art into ID, it comes in as a group. I can ungroup and edit the line art. If my line weight in the illustration is set to say 0.5pt and I need to edit the line art, I go to 'outline' view in Illustrator, I can see exactly where my lines intersect or terminate, etc. If I need to edit that graphic (now vector lines in ID) I would like to see the path outlines.

This would be very helpful so I don't have to keep two files, and also so I can edit all in one application.

RPP

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Are you saying you are drawing native vector objects and you want a view outlines feature for those, or that you want to have an outline view of placed objects?

Exactly how would this help you?

Peter

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Anonymous

have an outline view of placed objects.

John Hawkinson

Inspiring

You guys are Brits aren't you? I just got a sense of that.

No. In fact Peter and I both live in Massachusetts.

John, I really don't want to appear rude,

Not to belabor the point, but don't make snarky comments about other people's intentions.

Further, you (as did Peter) readily admit that you are not an expert in AI (which I had already surmised anyway, based on your comments), so you truly don't understand how it is we use View Outlines

No. We get it. We use View Outlines all the time. In Illustrator.

But we don't use InDesign to do a job we would do in Illustrator.

And the question we have asked you, over and over in this thread, is why you would want to do that kind of job in InDesign.

Why don't you answer it?

The one time we got close to an answer you said that "printers and manufacturers" wanted you to send InDesign files. But that's not a sufficient answer -- what is wrong with an InDesign file with an Illustrator file placed in it? That is how I would do this kind of work, and I believe how Peter would do it as well.

.. but why should I continue to keep trying to explain this to you when you've never used it and you're convinced that it's unnecessary? This is an absolutely pointless discussion. A complete waste of time. (I sincerely hope that's not a rude comment too, and I'm honestly not trying to be sarcastic in saying that).

No, it's quite rude. We both use View Outlines regularly (at least I do and I'm fairly sure Peter does).

So to say we have "never used it" without having asked us is rude, as well as foolish.

I should add:

why should I continue to keep trying to explain this to you when [...] you're convinced that it's unnecessary?

We're not "convinced it is unncessary."

We are not convinced it is necessary.

And you're not doing a good job of convincing us, by showing even a single compelling use case.

Harbs.

Legend

InDesign is not Illustrator...

Harbs

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Anonymous

So what? I'm more than sure that many people will like to have that there.

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