: Indesign question about layers on objects or texts So i haven't used InDesign in years. I'm a little embarrassed to ask this but I'd rather just find out on this site instead of taking an

@Jennifer810

The functionality you're looking for is, as Scott notes, built into Illustrator (which is for building illustrations), not InDesign, which is a layout program first an foremost.

Use InDesign for its typographic engine, which is superb, and its layout capabilities for print and ePub. Use Illustrator and Photoshop where you need extensive special effects, then place those items in InDesign. Round-trip editing is quick and easy using "Edit Original" in the context menu.

You can also set type very precisely in InDesign, outline it, take it to Illustrator for dressing up, and bring the resulting Ai document back into your InDesign layout.

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@Nimeshi706

As far as I'm aware, InDesign does not offer the ability to stack multiple fills, strokes, and effects onto the same object the way Illustrator allows.

In this respect, InDesign is far more like Photoshop than it is Illustrator.

You can add effects, and then group items and add effects to those groups, etc. but you can't stack on one object.

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