Create table using only fill and stroke

[anto]

Is it possible to create such table using only fill and stroke?

[anto]

I have created this table using text styles decoration. Thanks.

[loukash]

It would be helpful for fellow users if you would share how you did that.  thanks

[anto]

29 minutes ago, loukash said:

It would be helpful for fellow users if you would share how you did that.  thanks

Here is video

 

 

[thomaso]

To achieve the white border between fill and stroke you seem to use the offset options for the text style (while the insets for cells is 0.4 mm only) – but your vertical offsets of 7 mm (top) and 8 mm (bottom) are confusing me. What visual result do you get if you set them to 0 or 1 mm for the text style (paragraph decoration), keeping the cell insets in the Table Panel at 0.4 mm? And what font + size do you have set (unfortunately you excluded the Context Toolbar from your video)?

Compare below: Decoration indents are all 0 mm, white border is achieved with Cell insets 1 mm:

[anto]

36 minutes ago, thomaso said:

What visual result do you get if you set them to 0 or 1 mm for the text style (paragraph decoration), keeping the cell insets in the Table Panel at 0.4 mm? And what font + size do you have set (unfortunately you excluded the Context Toolbar from your video)?

Lato bold 11 pt

 

 

[thomaso]

39 minutes ago, anto said:

Lato bold 11 pt

Ah, it is the font size that matters … and may require individual vertical offsets as deco indents for the text style … while the white border between fill and stroke may be easier to set together with the stroke in the Table Panel > Insets.

[anto]

With this way possible to create table with circles

[anto]

Or more simplest idea with stroke

 

 

 

[thomaso]

While the visual flexibility via text styles without using text at all appears impressive, I am just curious, where you are heading to? Do you have a certain goal in mind? Will text and character background colour get added, or Find & Replace to influence possible text via Regex?

With an increasing number of text styles (-> colours, shapes) it may become a competition to Tatsuo (who seems to "fake" in his pure Excel work with vector elements).

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-artist/

https://artincontext.org/pointillism/

[anto]

3 minutes ago, thomaso said:

While the visual flexibility via text styles without using text at all appears impressive, I am just curious, where you are heading to?

I needed the table I asked for in the title of the thread to create this style of crossword puzzle. All the other styles were derived from the fact that I tried to achieve what I needed.