Border Stroke Style like a Certificate?

I'd like to find a plug-in (if there is one) that can do the same thing in Illustrator CS4 (for PC) that I can do in Quark: Make a rectangular border (frame or page border) that looks like an engraved diploma or guarantee border. In Quark, you draw a rectangle shape, then go to Item/Modify/Frame/Style and set the style and stroke. There are the usual line widths and dots and borders, as well as fancier stroke styles called "Yearbook," "Certificate," "Deco Plain," etc., which can be dragged to resize; even a very complex design, such as the Certificate that looks a lot like old engraved or guilloche patterns, will adjust to fit perfectly at corners when dragged. Currently, the only way I can create a border like this is to do it in Quark, save as EPS, and then open it in Photoshop. I especially like the Certificate border, and I was hoping when I upgraded from CS2 that Illustrator had included this capability, but it hasn't, so I'm asking if anyone knows about other ways to accomplish this -- even in another Creative Suite program, such as InDesign? I guess it's a "Feature Request," but thanks for any suggestions!

Okay, now I've had a chance to play around with all the options suggested. Thanks to Larry, too. I had looked at the various brush collections under "borders" and about 3 or 4 were almost what I needed, but the borders provided by Scott, especially the second one, really hit the mark. I spent some time looking at Google results, too, and found a lot of fun brushes for which I've saved bookmarks for future reference.
Wade, I usually lurk in the forums but this was the first time I'd actually posted -- I didn't know how to mark this answered, and nothing on the screen gave me any hints. But I must have been following a reply link without logging on, because the next time I went to the forum after logging on I saw the option for marking the question answered. Sorry for the confusion.
Anyway, thanks for all your contributions.
Nancy

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There is no InDesign equivalent to QuarkXPress's rasterized frames or to the Frame Editor application. (Is that still part of QX?)
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Illustrator area of the
Adobe Studio Exchange.

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Note: I'm in CS6 on Mac 10.6, in case it matters.

I actually need the cell styles. That's what sets my font, spacing, and GREP styles.
I did find the solution today. In the table style or table setup, I needed to set the "Stroke Drawing Order" to "Column Strokes in Front". Even though it was previously set to "Best Joins" and I had no strokes for rows or for the table borders, it just wasn't giving priority to my dotted columns.
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Pondering the possibilities of Marc Autret's fantastic ScriptUI Image Injection trick (
get swatches in dropdown list with color preview... ) I wondered if it was possible to do something a bit more complicated -- a Stroke Style dropdown, with a custom image per stroke style (dashed, dotted, striped), just like the Real Thing. But ... I'm stopped dead in my tracks by one simple nagging problem. Where did the stroke styles go?
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function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
As far as I know, those 18 styles are built-in styles. You can't delete them, edit or whatever...
Sure -- but I was hoping to at least see them in a script! It seems I cannot read *any* property out of them ??

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stroke style stippled crashes when testing movie or trying to publish.
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This problem is on cs4 and I have also check Flash cs3 at my uni and it does exactly the same when i tried the test again (I made a new clean animation just to make sure it wasnt the files falt)so its not a problem with my computor but the software!
found out this search result with the same problem http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-41241.html so im not the only one...
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Like I said, it is hard to be certain.
As far as I am aware, issues with Snow Leopard are specific to font anomalies in 10.6.7, and the fact that you cannot use the OS's printing system to produce PDFs via File > Print from Adobe applications. Do you have a link or citation for the issues you read online?
So, reasons to suspect Adobe: running the Adobe installer triggered the problem; Adobe programs crash and they crash in Adobe code;
Reasons to suspect Apple: it's not a single program crashing; the crashes don't seem to make sense; crashes happen for both CS4 and CS5; crashes affected non-Adobe programs (that is what you meant by "all my programs," right?).
So, my intuition is you should try an OS reinstall.
Though even if the root problem is the OS, Adobe probably has some blame here -- Adobe's programs should not crash. So you can certainly take it up with Adobe and hold firm to the line "your program should not crash; why is it crashing" and ultimately they should be able to tell you why (based on the crash report, and perhaps other things). But the answer may turn out to be, "because this Apple subsystem is broken. Fix it and our programs will stop crashing."
Have you looked at the logs in Console.app? They might shed some additional light.
Also, since you have recently reinstalled the OS, you are probably in a good position to reinstall the OS. Most people are reluctant to do so because they have a lot of data and applications, and it's a huge pain to preserve them. It sounds like you're not in that position, so doing that reinstall is relatively easy. I would therefore do it just for the peace of mind.
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[svn:fx-trunk] 8437: Change the TextInput border stroke to a solid opaque color so it matches the TextArea border when baseColor is applied .

Revision: 8437
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-07-07 16:52:58 -0700 (Tue, 07 Jul 2009)
Log Message:
Change the TextInput border stroke to a solid opaque color so it matches the TextArea border when baseColor is applied.
Bugs: SDK-18511, SDK-22097
Doc notes: none
QE notes: none
Reviewer: XD
Ticket Links:
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    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-22097
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http://www.fireworkszone.com/?root=28&extension=1&idChapitre=29
At the top, great style by Linda Rathgeber
Peter
"dhogue94" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fpafqe$moo$[email protected]..
| Y'all, are there are styles (downloadable .STL files or
tutorials to
create the
| effect) that can be applied to vector paths that will alter
the stroke so
that
| it looks like a pencil sketch? I want to draw quick
wireframes with the
line
| and pen tools, apply a style, and have it look like a
pencil sketch (to
clearly
| communicate to the client that they are looking at concept
diagrams not
actual
| wireframes.)
|
| I've been playing around with applying multiple effects to
add noise and
| texture, but nothing really looks like a pencil sketch - I
just get lines
that
| don't look crisp and clean but still look perfectly
straight and have even
| stroke width for the length. I know I probably can't add
random curvature
and
| overlapping strokes to truly mimic pencil sketches - all I
really want to
do is
| make the vector paths look "less than perfect" and ideally
like they were
| hand-drawn.
|
| Thanks!
|
| Dave
|
|

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Unknown behavior and, as it behave on a random basis it will be difficult to identify it.
Assuming that something may be corrupted in the document, may you apply this scheme :
save as Numbers '08 document
Close the original document
From Numbers '09, open the Numbers '08 version.
If some features were dropped( functions unavailable in Numbers '08), restore them.
With a bit of luck, the oddity will be gone.
A more drastic cleaning would rely upon an export as Excel or as CSV.
Of course, you may send the file to my mailbox but there is no guarantee that the problem surface here.
In case, click my blue name to get my address.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 27 mai 2011 09:08:59
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