Chapter 10. Creating Frames
The basic elements of an InDesign page are the same as they are in a QuarkXPress page—boxes, lines and text paths. But since you’re now working in a new “country,” you have to learn the language of your new land, which is a little different than the kingdom of QuarkXPress.
Understanding the Lingo
InDesign calls the basic elements of a page frames, instead of boxes. As in XPress, frames are used as the container for text or graphics, or they may have no content at all.
QuarkXPress uses the word frame to mean the border around a box. It calls the thickness of a frame its width. When you want to change the background, you change the box color. InDesign, on the other hand, follows Illustrator’s terminology, and calls the border ...
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