Text Frame TRIANGLE

[HJSTRECKER]

ladies and gentlemen,

I am building a graphic in InDesign in Combination wit Illustrator for a presentation. 

With the help of the internet etc. I manageed to leave the Microsoft world and am trying to do everything in Adobe products now.

I reached a problem pretty hard to solve for a newbie - even after searching forums for quite a time.

I made my circle consisting of 4 parts. and with curved text etc. but now I would like to ad text outside for a description. If I make the inside of the circle as a text field, the text is wrapped corretly along the path, but on the outside not. 

I am attaching a file showing what I mean as I am not sure if my explanation is correctly and easy to understand...is it possible to do the red box shape with automatic text wrap? somehow lay a circle over a rectangle text frame and subtract it? 

thank you for any help, idea, feedback!

[stefanofe]

i don't know which program you're using. Indesign or Illustrator. In any case you can achieve the same result in multiple ways : a text box to which you subtract a circle. In that case the red figure has exactly those dimensions and that shape. But if you don't have to put a contour to the figure I would simply make a column of text and then a circle without a filling and without a line to assign the function "contours with text". You have to use the levels. You then have the option of assigning some text boxes the "ignore contours with text" option if the circle without padding and line also conceals texts that instead must be visible. Actually you could also assign "contour with text" to the figures that contain the texts on the circle and that would allow you not to draw any additional circle ... I think there are other solutions that now don't come to mind now. I'm not sure I responded correctly. And forgive the translation.

[stefanofe · Accepted solution]

added you a file with the three examples. I'm not in the order I described to you before. In the last of the "contour with text" drawing has different options : you need to assign the right or left side from the specific screen. Open the panel and you understand what I say.

[HJSTRECKER]

thank you very much, I am now a little nearer! to be honest, I read a couple of times through your post and still do not get all of it 😉 

I am attaching you my AI file that I copied to ID - so yo can see where I started from ...

Thank you so much for your file, I will try to adopt that to my work if that is okay for you?

always interesting to see how much I have not even an idea of ...

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[James Gifford—NitroPress]

This might be easier to create in Illustrator, but I think it can be done in ID.

I can't see any way to make it one element, through. You will need to create each quadrant as a separate item and then rotate/place each in the final layout. And since ID can't create the outlined arcs for each quadrant very easily, you may have to use masking pieces (e.g white frames to block out part of a circle) and accept what ID can do in terms of outline and background on such a stacked graphic.

I'd do this part in Illustrator, to be honest. 🙂