Adobe INDESIGN 2.0 - USING HELP Help Manual page 210

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About stroke weights
The weight of a stroke is centered on its path. Half of the stroke falls inside the path, and
half falls outside. For text characters only, InDesign automatically adjusts stroke weights so
that the entire stroke weight exists outside the character outline. This preserves character
shapes by preventing a growing stroke weight from closing up the inner areas of small text
characters.
Path stroke weight is always centered over the path (top); character stroke weight
always grows outward from the character outline when text has a fill (bottom)
When you select a path using the selection tool , you activate a bounding box that exists
at the outer edge of the stroke weight. If you want to see the path at the center of a stroke,
select the path using the direct-selection tool .
You can specify how stroke weight affects the bounding box edge and Transform palette
measurements. (See "Changing how stroke weight affects bounding box and path dimen-
sions" on page 213, and
Editing stroke characteristics
Use the Stroke palette to select the stroke attributes. If you want to apply a stroke color, fill
color, or gradient fill to a path, use the toolbox and Swatches palette as explained in
"Applying color" on page
To display the Stroke palette:
Choose Window > Stroke.
To change the stroke weight:
1 Using any selection tool, select the path you want to modify.
2 In the Stroke palette, choose a stroke weight value in the menu, or type a value and
press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).
Note: Strokes thinner than 0.25 point may be too thin to see when printed on high-
resolution output devices such as an imagesetter. To remove the stroke, type a value
of 0 (zero).
To change the cap style:
1 Using any selection tool, select the path you want to modify.
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