A designer with multiple clients must work this way, or go crazy. For in-house designers who work with more than one brand, or even if there is a different house style for internal documents than the one used for marketing, each set of styles is always at hand. You will have named all your standard styles, you guarantee consistency across all documents, and you can create a new document at lightning speed. The advantages of this approach are huge. Load your style sheet into any new document by going to the Paragraph Styles flyout menu and selecting 'Load All Text Styles.' Navigate to your 'master' document (or any document that uses those styles) and click Okay/Choose. If you like, you can then strip out all the text and save the 'blank' document as a template, which can be very useful, but isn't essential. Just be sure that everything that has a standard appearance has its own style.

You can do this in any document, or work from an old one. If you're not using styles, you're giving yourself a lot of extra work for no gain. You absolutely should be using Paragraph, Character and Object Styles anyway, and Table Styles if you use tables, so this should be no big chore. It's also far too easy to slip into the very bad habit of not using paragraph and character styles for everything in your documents.Ī less fragile and more flexible solution is to maintain a complete style sheet for your brand, with paragraph and character styles for body copy, headlines, subheads, emphasis, etc., and always work from that. If someone else opens your document in their copy of InDesign, all your '' text will be converted to their font. The big one is, don't ever change the style to your other font. At this point you can scale the overall shape to get the size you want, or expand (object>expand) and play around with them individually.Not to detract from lawndartcatcher's answer, which is correct, there are a couple of important caveats with regard to changing the default font. This will make sure all of the circles are connected. If the circles are not connected/touching (and you want them to), select the scissor tool (C) and click the blank portion of the larger circle.

This will rotate the blend around the larger circle, aligning it to the circle's path. Select the blended circles and the large circle and replace the spine (object>blend>replace spine). Make a new (larger) circle which will be your path. For 'Orientation' select the right icon which is 'Align to Path'. Use 'Specified Steps' for the spacing and put in how many total circles you want (I used 21). Select your blend and go to 'blend options'(object>blend>blend options). Select both circles and blend them (object>blend>make). Make sure the two circles are a different color so you can see what is happening. I know I'm 5 years late to the party, but CHECK OUT THIS TECHNIQUE!Ĭreate a circle and duplicate it. I don't know if this helps, but I hope it does. You can even stretch or deform your star or polygon before starting it you want a specific shape, though this can impact the spacing of your object.

This will almost certainly work for an arch shape, you just have to know how many instances of the object that you want before you start and make a star or polygon with the appropriate number of points.

I grouped my groups together, then unlocked and deleted the star - thus I had all of my group objects evenly distributed in a circular shape with no rotation on the original objects, without going through the hassle of using the 'move' and 'rotate' tools to the utmost precision.

I repeated this process until all of the star points had copies of my group centered on top of them.

Holding Alt, I dragged the group, which copied it, and aligned the copy's center to the next star point.

I lined up my group's center to one of the points of the star.

PLEASE NOTE that if you want to use an uneven number of points it may not align properly to the center of the art board, in which case you can make a circle with the same radius as the longest radius of your star and then fit the star inside, group them, and align.

I made a star object (the polygon tool will work too) with an even number of points, at about half the radius of my circle, and centered it to my artboard and locked it (so that I wouldn't accidentally move it in the next few steps).

I created my circle and centered it to my artboard.

I recently had a similar issue - I wanted to repeat a group of objects around a circle but didn't want to rotate it or to make it a brush (I wanted a specific number of iterations).

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