Changing text color between threaded text frames

[David_Burdette@adobeforums.com]

I'm having trouble figuring out how to change the text color (not manually) between two threaded text frames. Here's the scenario:

Page 1 has a black background so the text is white throughout the text frame. Page 2 has a white background and I need to have the text automatically turn black when flowing into this text frame. I can't seem to find a way to do this automatically.

I'm probably missing something easy but just am having a mental block. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Bob Levine]

No can do...you'll need different paragraph styles. The only thing I can
suggest as a workaround is playing around with the blend modes, but I'd
be real careful going that route.

Bob

[Richard_Sohanchyk@adobeforums.com]

A script may do what you want. I would post there.

[David_Burdette@adobeforums.com]

Thanks. I'll try the scripts area.

I thought about blends but that would only work if the background was a solid color. In my case there is variation so while the text may stand out, there may still be variation in the text color.

We'll see!

[Dennis_White@adobeforums.com]

I have not tried this to know if it will work. Would using a nested style work? If there is something in the text flow you can latch onto to make the style change for you. like when the page number changes.

[samwaltonyeah]

There's nothing built into InDesign that allows this, but one way to make it happen is:

- select the text box containing the text whose colour you want to change
- open the effects tab
- select the "text" row (underneat object, stroke, and fill)
- apply an "inner shadow" effect to the text, making the shadow whatever colour you want the text, and turning up (or down) all the measurements: opacity 100%, distance and offsets down to 0mm, size as big as possible (100mm is fine on 8.5pt type, I've found) and choke 100%.

Good luck!