How can I simply create a text frame with perfect rounded ends?

Corner effects changed in ID when they went "live" and they lost the ability to make a real semicircle. You can still use the Pathfinder, though, to combine shapes.

Having screen grabs with non-printing characters showing (and select the frame so we can see any applied insets) might give some insight into the fitting problem.

I'm not seeing any obvious reason for the sizing problem. Can you post that sample page someplace and put a link here?

It looks like a bug to me.

You'll want to delete your personal information when replying by email. I've done it for you on the last two posts.

The second link worked fine. Did you see my previous response? Looks to me like you found a bug.

So it would seem. I can reproduce it across sevral versions of ID, using both your file and files I create here.

It's not you.

There is a pre-written script present in the indesign , named as "Cornereffects"

that script doesn't show the limitation that we have in corner effects but the only disadvantage is that there is no preview and you have define the offset value again if you entered it wrong.

Windows>scripts,  In the panel  go to applications-->users-->javascript-->cornereffects.jsx

This might help

Not even a downgrade to version 2.0.

@Jerry – to get perfect round corners (and some more features), Hans Haesler wrote some wonderful scripts:

EckenEffekte_504d.js

EckenEffekteMix_504d.js

EckenEffektePlus_504d.js

The scripts are in german. Be "warned", that if you type in a decimal point the script immediately will change that to a "comma", which is perfectly right in german language.

You'll find the scripts among others at the download page at www.fachhefte.ch. Look for the JavaScripts section.

Uwe

What's the bug?

Eugene Tyson wrote:

 

What's the bug?

The bug appears to be in how ID fits the text in the frame. At a long length you can left, center or right-align the text in that shape and it will works fine, but as you shorten the shape you reach a point where there is more space on eihter end than was used when that end was the one to which the text was previously aligned, so you would expect the text to continue to fit if you shorten some more, but when you do the line breaks. Making the frame a bit deeper restores the line, which would lead you to think the leading slug is running up against the curves, but that's not a problem when you have the longer frame (you can highlight the text to see the slug and it is tucking into the curve area), so if it becomes a problem, I think that's a bug.

One Sledgehammer Script coming up: select your text frame and run this little Javascript. It adds rounded sides as per original frame size and copies line color and thickness from the text frame (where it is removed). Then it groups everything together, and leaves it selected (since you started with a selection as well).

It adds the new objects (rectangle, circles) simply to the parent of the selected text frame -- under normal circumstances, that ought to be the page you are looking at.

textframe = app.selection[0];
left = textframe.geometricBounds[1];
right = textframe.geometricBounds[3];
height = textframe.geometricBounds[2] - textframe.geometricBounds[0];
center = (textframe.geometricBounds[2] + textframe.geometricBounds[0])/2;
radius = height/2;
leftRounded = textframe.parent.ovals.add({geometricBounds:[center-radius,left-radius,center+radius,left+radius]});
riteRounded = textframe.parent.ovals.add({geometricBounds:[center-radius,right-radius,center+radius,right+radius]});
rectBetween = textframe.parent.rectangles.add({geometricBounds:[center-radius,left,center+radius,right]});
roundedRect = rectBetween.addPath([leftRounded,riteRounded]);
roundedRect.properties = {strokeWeight:textframe.strokeWeight,strokeTint:textframe.strokeTint,strokeColor:textframe.strokeColor};
textframe.properties = {strokeWeight:0};
app.select(textframe.parent.groups.add([roundedRect,textframe]));

Could it be faster/easier to just ungroup, delete the existing frame, and re-create it?

Wait -- why not make the script do all the work after you resized a frame! Replace the first line with this new fragment (the first line itself is the same, it's the if..stuff that counts):

textframe = app.selection[0];
if (textframe instanceof Group && textframe.pageItems.length == 2)
{
  roundedRect = app.selection[0].polygons[0];
  textframe = app.selection[0].textFrames[0];
  textframe.properties = {strokeWeight:roundedRect.strokeWeight,strokeTint:roundedRect.strokeTint,strokeColor:roundedRect.strokeColor};
  roundedRect.remove();
  app.selection[0].ungroup();
}

It copies the rounded rectangle stroke properties to the textframe and deletes the rounded rectangle, effectively leaving the object ready to be processed as if you selected the original text frame.

Don't use it on a frame that you tinkered with manually, though, as those edits will be lost ... (well, apart from re-sizing).

One last refinement: It's convenient if the script allows you to Undo/Redo its actions -- let me add that for completeness' sake. The following is the complete script again, no further editing required.

//DESCRIPTION:Overlay round corners on a single textframe
// A Jongware Script 2-Apr-2012

app.doScript(function(textframe){
if (textframe instanceof Group && textframe.pageItems.length == 2)
{
roundedRect = app.selection[0].polygons[0];
textframe = app.selection[0].textFrames[0];
textframe.properties = {strokeWeight:roundedRect.strokeWeight,strokeTint:roundedRect.strokeTint,strokeColor:roundedRect.strokeColor};
roundedRect.remove();
app.selection[0].ungroup();
}
left = textframe.geometricBounds[1];
right = textframe.geometricBounds[3];
height = textframe.geometricBounds[2] - textframe.geometricBounds[0];
center = (textframe.geometricBounds[2] + textframe.geometricBounds[0])/2;
radius = height/2;
leftRounded = textframe.parent.ovals.add({geometricBounds:[center-radius,left-radius,center+radius,left+radius]});
riteRounded = textframe.parent.ovals.add({geometricBounds:[center-radius,right-radius,center+radius,right+radius]});
rectBetween = textframe.parent.rectangles.add({geometricBounds:[center-radius,left,center+radius,right]});
roundedRect = rectBetween.addPath([leftRounded,riteRounded]);
roundedRect.properties = {strokeWeight:textframe.strokeWeight,strokeTint:textframe.strokeTint,strokeColor:textframe.strokeColor};
textframe.properties = {strokeWeight:0};
app.select(textframe.parent.groups.add([roundedRect,textframe]));
}, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, app.selection[0], UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Overlay Round Corners");