How do you customise bullet points?

[Gail_H_L]

I have designed branded bullet points. Can you insert these into in-design CS3 under paragraph styles, bullets and numbering?  If the answer is YES,  how do you do this? 

[Eugene Tyson]

How have you done this in CS3?

Can you give an example?

Shoudl work the same way.

[Gail_H_L]

Hi Eugene

Perhaps I need to reword. I have created a vector which I wish to insert into the bullets list.

[Gail_H_L]

• a list
• like this
• but with
• designed bullet points
• instead
• of a black dot.

[Steve Werner]

I have no idea what you mean by "branded bullet points". Are these graphics? Are these from a custom font? What exactly are you talking about?

[BobLevine]

First you’ll need to convert all bullets to text. Then copy the bullet to the clipboard.

Do a find change looking for the bullet character and replacing it with the contents of the clipboard.

Bob

[Gail_H_L]

How do you convert a bullet to text?

[Eugene Tyson]

Select the text

Type>Bullets and Numbering>Convert Bullets to Text

[Jeffrey_Smith]

You can have bulleted text manually created (i.e. type stroke bullet mark, then tab, then enter text) or automatically styled through Paragraph > Bullets and Numbering. You would only have to follow this step "convert bullet to text" if the bullets are the latter.

[Guest]

Don't understand the question, do you want to convert bullet points to numbers?

[Guest]

To me the simplest way to do this is copy your text into word then insert your bullets/numbers or whatever then recopy from word and paste into Illustrator. Hope this helps.

[tonyharmer]

Hi

Unless you want to 'fudge it' by pasting the graphic into the list as an inline shape (less than ideal) the bullets need to be part of a font. You can generate font "signatures" - exactly what you are after - with SigMaker 3 from FontLabs.

Once you've created a signature install the font, and then in your paragraph style that you're using for the list, add the glyph from your new font.

http://www.fontlab.com/font-utility/sigmaker/

(please note that this product does not work with osx Lion)

[malxp72]

I know exactly what you mean Gail. I have created a custom shape to use as a bullet point - it's fine to use as an imported graphic when I only need a small number of bullets, but I have the same problem as you, and have multiple bullet points that require this custom shape that would be time consuming to cut and paste - I want to add this custom shape as a bullet in the Bullets and Numbering window but InDesign does not provide this option.

The only way to get a bullet point that is not a dot is to use a shape from a font, at this stage there's no way to do it from a graphic.

Also I have documents that don't have pre-existing typed bullet points and I format bullet text using the Paragraph Style Options > Bullets and Numbering, so find and replace isn't an option.

Adobe please give us this feature in the next update - it will be loved by all graphic designers and finished artists - your primary market!

[Jongware]

malxp72 wrote:

The only way to get a bullet point that is not a dot is to use a shape from a font, at this stage there's no way to do it from a graphic.

Uh, would that be "any" graphic -- such as a colored vector image, or even a bitmap --, or would it be enough if you somehow ("magically" ) could turn a vector image into a proper one-character font?

[malxp72]

Not all of us have the means to convert a graphic or bitmap image to a font - that's the point. Adobe needs to create an option where you can import a graphic to be a character in the bullet points menu.

[BobLevine]

This link will take you to a form where you can make a formal request. You should fill it out in detail including how you think this feature should work and why it should be added.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Bob

[Michael_Gianino]

malxp72 wrote:

Not all of us have the means to convert a graphic or bitmap image to a font - that's the point. Adobe needs to create an option where you can import a graphic to be a character in the bullet points menu.

What about the option that tonyharmer offered  in post #11?

SigMaker3 Website wrote:

An affordable font utility that allows users to turn any image such as a scanned signature, a corporate logo or a digital photo into a font that can be easily used in any wordprocessing or graphic application ― all in six easy steps.

[Jongware]

Michael Gianino wrote:

malxp72 wrote:

Not all of us have the means to convert a graphic or bitmap image to a font - that's the point. Adobe needs to create an option where you can import a graphic to be a character in the bullet points menu.

What about the option that tonyharmer offered  in post #11?

SigMaker3 Website wrote:

An affordable font utility that allows users to turn any image such as a scanned signature, a corporate logo or a digital photo into a font that can be easily used in any wordprocessing or graphic application ― all in six easy steps.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking about. Except the "six easy steps" part, then -- I can bring it down to (uh) about two. Also very easy, by the way.

I'll see if I can whip up a demo in the weekend.

[malxp72]

Apparently it doesn't work with osx Lion so that's of no help to me.