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3 minutes ago, coque.regis said:

Same here, is there a way to do that?

Hi @coque.regis,

it is not possible to make it visible like margin. But there is one a little absurd thing. If you give the frame more than one coloumn you see a blue line of the inset. It is absurd in the sense that there is no obvious reason to have this only on frames with more than one coloumn 😉

More of a workaround is to create a style from a text frame as it is. Then add a border to the text frame that has the width of the inset and give it a light transparent colour of your choice. From this you create a second style. That way you can quickly switch between the two. Note: since this is only a workaround this can become a litte confusing if you want to do this with multiple different text frame styles. But  I think in certain situations this should work for now.

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On 5/25/2020 at 3:26 PM, dominik said:

It is absurd in the sense that there is no obvious reason to have this only on frames with more than one coloumn 😉

Indeed weird. Did you report this as a bug ?

On 5/25/2020 at 3:26 PM, dominik said:

More of a workaround is to create a style from a text frame as it is. Then add a border

Another workaround to display the inset as border is to create a second column and set its width = 0.
Whereas a text decoration in column width would highlight the inset area.

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5 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Indeed weird. Did you report this as a bug ?

Another workaround to display the inset as border is to create a second column and set its width = 0.
Whereas a text decoration in column width would highlight the inset area.

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I did not report it as a bug because I had the impression it is by design. But perhaps it's worth to talk to Serif to find out.

Your suggestion with a zero width column is a good hack but nevertheless a workaround. Text frame insets should be (at some point) an option as visual aid.

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Just adding to an olde thread - incase someone picks this up. I use text frame insets as an easy way to position text elements using snap.. a lot.

You set up an inset of say 3mm, then snap the text frame to the edge of the page or image confident the text is 3mm away from it. I'm not sure how many people are advance [cough] enough to have figured out how much of a boon this is. See attached illustations (from Adobe InDesign and Designer).

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(I'm in here searching for how to specify an inset and don't believe I've found the answer yet.). Really hoping being able to inset the text frame is possible in Designer (as well as all the others).. or it'll be glum face time.

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EDIT: Found answer. Currenlty (as at 4 Mar 2021), you pop into publisher. Set up a text frame with an inset. The copy the text frame into Designer. The inset is then fixed, but you can clone the text box and use... not the most sophisticated caper, but workable. Fingers crossed this is introduced into Designer where text is often labelling something.

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2 hours ago, ProDesigner said:

You set up an inset of say 3mm, then snap the text frame to the edge of the page or image confident the text is 3mm away from it. I'm not sure how many people are advance [cough] enough to have figured out how much of a boon this is. See attached illustations (from Adobe InDesign and Designer).

 

in Designer you can set up a Paragraph Style to have a 3mm space before and then use Always for the Use Space Before...

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Ah yes, good thinking! Of course!!

Just so used to having used inset for the job.

This would work in Designer iPad, too.

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7 hours ago, ProDesigner said:

pop into publisher. Set up a text frame with an inset.

Since Publisher 1.9 there's also Text Frame > Vertical Position > Initial Advance which can do the same thing but also adds a bunch of other tricks and options not available via Inset Top.

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On 10/4/2020 at 6:30 PM, dominik said:

I did not report it as a bug because I had the impression it is by design. But perhaps it's worth to talk to Serif to find out.

Your suggestion with a zero width column is a good hack but nevertheless a workaround. Text frame insets should be (at some point) an option as visual aid.

d.

please report it as a bug...it's a problem!

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On 7/4/2021 at 6:59 PM, Webb123 said:

please report it as a bug...it's a problem!

You are free to report it as a bug by yourself. I still consider it as by design.

BTW, welcome to the forum @Webb123!

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