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Corner adjustment for dashed stroke

Sep 19, 2012 6:12 AM

Hello,

InDesign CS4 has a "Corner adjustment for dashed stroke" feature which allows corners of a dashed stroke to have the dash part instead of a gap or a small part of a dash. Interestingly, I cannot find this feature in Illustrator CS4. I believe it is included in Illustrator CS5.

Is this feature indeed absent from Illustrator CS4? If so, is there a workaround?

Thanks.

646 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: Monika Gause, Sep 19, 2012 2:55 PM

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1. Monika Gause,

Sep 19, 2012 7:00 AM in reply to sPretzel

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- pattern brushes
- this script: http://park12.wakwak.com/~shp/lc/et/en_aics_script.html#dash_offset

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2. W_J_T,

Sep 19, 2012 7:06 AM in reply to sPretzel

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sPretzel wrote:

I believe it is included in Illustrator CS5.

Yeah sadly that is when the option "Aligned dashes to corners and path ends, adjusting lengths to fit" was introduced in the stroke panel of Illustrator. The two options Monika suggested will sort you out in CS4 however.

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3. sPretzel,

Sep 19, 2012 9:10 AM in reply to W_J_T

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Thanks Monika and W_J_T. I just tried pattern brushes, but I have trouble making corner connections that flow well as the size of my rectangle changes (I am applying the brush to a rectangle and have defined the side tile and outer corner tile). Perhaps you could point me to a tutorial on this subject as I might not be creating my pattern brush properly.

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4. Monika Gause,

Sep 19, 2012 2:55 PM in reply to sPretzel

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You could try this: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e0 7d0100196cbc5f-64d6a.html#WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-64d1a

In case you understand German:
https://vimeo.com/22030356

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