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Re: Frame shape

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From: Olav Kvern
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 18:03
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Dave's probably right--provided you're changing from one basic shape (a rectangle, ellipse, or regular polygon) to another, it's probably easiest to create the shape you're looking for, then move the content to that shape and delete the old shape.

The easiest way to "move the content" is to set the content type of the new frame to text, then link from the old text frame to the new object, and then delete the old object. It's far easier than either copying/pasting the text or replicating the text from one frame to another.

But if you want to create a new text frame shape that is *not* one of the basic shapes, all you need to do is change the positions of the points on path 1 of the text frame. I have scripts for creating all of the "corner effects" by moving/adding path points--let me know if you'd like me to post them again (they're somewhere in the archive, but I can't find them).

Thanks,

Ole
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