Hi there,
I think, it would be more useful to write my tutorials in english(?) – even though my english isn’t the best :)
I ran into this problem, with InDesign – I wanted to make a background color behind some of my words in an ad – but I never thought there would be any other way, than create a box, fill it with a color and put in the layer below the text. That annoyed me a lot – because when I edit the text, I have to move all the colored boxes as well. Sigh!
But ey, there is a solution!
First of all – create a text-box, fill in some text… Now you have some words that you would like to highlight, with a background color!
Go to Window > Styles > Character Styles – this will open up a new window, that we have to do some tricks with. (To make this easier for you, mark a word that you would like to highlight, check preview – then you can live edit it).
Now, create a new Character Style, by clicking on the little document in the Character Style window (lower right corner). You’ll get another window – and from here you go to Basic Character Formats.
Depending on your font size, you’ll have to play around with the settings – but if you keep it to 20 pt. you can use the same settings as me for this tip. Check ‘Underline’ which is the key. (Tip; if you’re working in inches/mm/cm, just type in 20 pt, press tab – and it will automatically change it, to whatever you’re using)
Go to Character color – and those your font color here… I picked white – because I wanted my background to be magenta and the text to be white.
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Now you go to Underline Options and check Underline On and in my case, my weight will be 16 pt. and by setting the Offset to be -7 pt. it will perfectly match my font, but of course as background color.
Play around with colors, sizes and maybe even Gap options – be creative and thank you for reading this :)
Suggestions and comments are more than welcome, regarding this tutorial.
