Hello, all!
While fiddling with some convert to shape options in InDesign CS5.5 (OSX 10.6.8), I came across a phenenomen when doing that with text frames.
See the following screen shots:
1. Two square text frames with different inset spacing settings will be converted to two different ovals:
2. There is a method in the madness. See the overlapping objects and their inset spacing settings:
Clearly you can see that it depends on the inset spacing settings what will happen. If the inset spacing settings are all even on all sides of the square text frame, converting a square to an oval will get you a circle. If not, you end up with an oval that uses the first value of the inset spacing together with the rectangle that form all inset spacing settings of the original text frame to determine its shape.
The same applies, if you convert to triangles or polygons (I have shifted the bottom polygon a bit to the right to show the effect more clearly):
Question is: do we have here a bug or a feature?
Should I send a bug report?
Or does someone base a part of his/her workflow on that "feature"?
Uwe