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A threaded text frames A. In port at beginning of story B. Out port indicating thread to next frame C. text thread D. In port indicating thread from previous frame E. Out port with plus sign indicating overset text D C B 28 Adobe InDesign CS3 | Conversion guide E Versatile Frames, Lively Layouts Frames can help you create consistent structure across multiple pages in a document or produce intricate design elements that add visual interest. In InDesign, virtually any object can be used as a frame—rectangles, ellipses, polygons, shapes created with the Pen or Pencil tool, open paths, even text converted to paths. You can design frames and then place content into them, or create frames as you place content. You can also modify the frame shape after placing the content. This page contains three examples that show how you can use frames in your layouts. One shows a basic two-column layout with threaded text frames. Another shows a mix of graphics and text frames used to set up a template. The final one shows examples of using unusual shapes—a shape drawn with the Pen tool and one created by converting text to a path— as containers for text and graphics. set up templates for using graphics and text frames as placeholders into which content can be imported. with InDesign, you can make any object a frame, and you can easily change the content of a frame. 1a and 2a show frames created with the Pen tool and by converting text to a path. In 1b and 2b, text and graphics have been placed into the resulting frames. In 1c and 2c, the text and graphic content has been switched. 1a 1b 1c 2a 2b 2c
tips: wORkIng wIth fRAmEs • When you create a frame with the Rectangle, Ellipse, or Polygon tool, the default attributes for Stroke and Fill in the Tools panel are automatically applied to the frame. • If you select the Rectangle, Ellipse, or Polygon tool, or the Rectangle Frame, Ellipse Frame, or Polygon Frame tool, and then click on a spread or the pasteboard, a dialog box appears that lets you enter values for the width and height of the new object. • If you double-click the Polygon Frame tool or the Polygon tool, you can enter a default setting for the number of sides and (optionally) a star inset value. • If you use the Rectangle, Ellipse, or Polygon tool (rather than the Frame tools with the same names), the content is unassigned. • You can control the display of frame edges using the Show/Hide Frame Edges command (View menu). Click on a page with the Polygon tool to specify several attributes of a new polygon. how do I link text frames? You won’t find any tools for linking and unlinking text frames in the InDesign Tools panel. That’s because linking and unlinking—or threading, as it’s called in InDesign—is accomplished via the in and out ports on text frames. The in port of a text frame is a small square at the top of the left edge, just below the upper left corner; the out port is at the bottom of the right edge, just above the lower right corner. If an out port is displayed in red with a red plus sign within, it indicates there is overset text. To add a text frame after an existing text frame, select the Selection tool or the Direct Selection tool, click the existing frame, and then click the frame’s out port. A loaded icon is displayed. At this point, you can click and drag to create a new text frame, or you can click within another existing text frame. Use the same process to add a text frame in front of an existing frame, except begin by clicking the frame’s in port. To unlink two threaded text frames, double-click either the out port of the first frame (that is, the frame from which the text is threaded) or double-click the in port of the second frame (the frame into which the text is threaded). how do I design pages with frames? If you prefer, you can build pages with InDesign as you would with QuarkXPress: • Use the Type tool to create rectangular text frames. • Use the Frame tools (Rectangle, Ellipse, and Polygon) to create squares and rectangles, circles and ovals, and equilateral polygons. • Use the Pen or Pencil tool to create irregular shapes. Creating Frames and Objects 29
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