Paragraph styles and images

you may need to create anchor objects and set the anchor settings so that in that anchor you can place image set for each catagory.

Hi Nancy,

if the vector graphic's color is monochrome without any shading one could do it.

What you need as a minimum is a font that has the vector graphic's shape saved as glyph. Best at Unicode 2022 BULLET.

And if that is accomplished you could define a bullet point's character style with that font and glyph, give it a fill color and apply it as bullet of a bulleted list in the paragraph style definition.

To convert a vector graphic to a glyph and, in the end, create a new OpenType font you could use the InDesign script IndyFont by Jongware and Marc Autret: http://www.indiscripts.com/category/projects/IndyFont

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Create a custom font from your vector graphic (requires separate tool).

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/ot-svg-color-fonts.html

Use that font for a bullet.

https://helpx.adobe.com/en/indesign/using/bullets-numbering.html

FrameMaker (Adobe's other page layout application) can do that automatically, but InDesign cannot. I'm guessing scripting is the answer, but I'm not the one to help with that. I'll add a scripting tag to this post and let's see if someone else can help.

~Barb

Edit: Never mind, you already added it. 🙂

I am importing XML into an InDesign Template and have paragraph styles written for Category Titles. My client decided they wanted to put a vector image at the beginning of each category title. I would like to incorporate this into the paragraph style so the image can flow into the document without little to no tweaking once that text is in the document.

Hi Nancy:

No. But tell us how what you are trying to do and maybe we can suggest another approach.

~Barb