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1. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
P Spier Jan 3, 2011 7:38 AM (in response to centerpunch2)This seems to be something new in how ID draws radii in CS5.
Hard to say if it's a bug or 'as designed" but I suspect the latter, and I think it is related to live corner effects.
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2. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
centerpunch2 Jan 3, 2011 9:45 AM (in response to centerpunch2)Hard not to call it a bug when you specify one radius and without telling you, InDesign creates a different one!
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3. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
P Spier Jan 3, 2011 9:54 AM (in response to centerpunch2)I remember another thread on this a few months ago, and I did soome testing then. If memeory serves, ID is adding a short flat sement next to the radius, so you can't, for example make a frame 1/2" high and use 1/4" radius corners and get a true semicircular end. As I said, I think this may have to do with some necessity of making live corner effects function, in which case it isn't a bug, but a design limitiation.
Still sucks, though..
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4. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
MT.Freelance Jan 3, 2011 10:10 AM (in response to centerpunch2)Bug or Limitation, I am able to reproduce the issue when using live corner effects.
That is disappointing, for live corner effects on tiny frames.
However, it is still possible to create your pill-box style frames using the tried and true method of the pathfinder.
Create two circular frames and a rectangular frame and merge them using the pathfinder
(Well, "Epic Fail" may be too strongly worded, but I've been looking for an excuse to use the phrase... ^_~ )
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5. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
Brandtagonist Jan 6, 2014 10:12 AM (in response to MT.Freelance)The whole usefulness of corner effects is that it's not destructive. I would prefer NOT to have "Live Corners" (who actually eyeballs corners anyway? most people know the exact value) if it means it can't do it properly.
Give us ACTUAL rounded corners back Adobe.
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6. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
P Spier Jan 6, 2014 10:42 AM (in response to Brandtagonist)The actual rounded corners you want back so badly were destructive, not live.
For the most part, the current live corners seems to meet the need of most users. The out-of-roundness is generally imperceptible until you start doing things like stacking flipped frames or attempting to get a full semi-circular frame end, and for those cases the old corner effects script still works fine.
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7. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
centerpunch2 Jan 6, 2014 10:58 AM (in response to P Spier)As I said when I started this thread, I am, as you say, "attempting to get a full semi-circular frame end."
Still seems hard not to call it a bug when you specify one radius and without telling you, InDesign creates a different one!
I am a long time user, but by no means a "power user" of InDesign. I do not know what you mean by "the old corner effects script." (In fact, to the best of my knowledge, I have never used a "script" of any kind.)
So..................help me out.
How do I use "the old corner effects script" to "get a full semi-circular frame end"?
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8. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
Ellis home Jan 6, 2014 11:12 AM (in response to centerpunch2)In Windows/Utilities/Scripts under Java Script there's a CornerEffects.jsx script. Select your object and double click the script and you'll be able to change the radius.
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9. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
P Spier Jan 6, 2014 11:16 AM (in response to centerpunch2)OK. Brandtagonist has been posting the same comment in seval old threads, and the script is mentioned elsewhere, but since you're still here, and still interested, there is a sample script that installs by default with InDesign called Corner Effects.jsx. Give it a try.
Double-click the script in your Scripts panel to run, then choose the rounded shape and set the radius to exacly half the smaller dimansion of your frame (you can only get semicircles on the shorter side).
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10. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
centerpunch2 Jan 7, 2014 8:15 AM (in response to P Spier) -
12. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
P Spier Jan 7, 2014 10:54 AM (in response to centerpunch2)Son of a gun. I've been spreading bad info for years.
I just went back as far as CS3 and it did the same thing.
Seems like it's using pretty much the same logic for drawing the curves as live corners does.
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13. Re: Rounded corner radius incorrect in smaller frames (CS5)
philipking Jul 8, 2014 7:15 AM (in response to centerpunch2)I still regard this as bug, despite the insistence to the contrary in this earlier thread, mainly because it bugs me often, but also because the expected behaviour is so obvious: a rounded corner (especially one calculated by industry standard software on a Very Expensive Computer) should be a precise radius, and an approximately round corner is not only imprecise but unpredictable to the user. If square corners were somehow suddenly not 90° then this would surely be a bug, why not when rounded corners are not precise? Or perhaps the word “rounded” is the get-out clause, as it doesn’t necessarily mean a 90° section of circular arc.









