InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Applying Colors to Frames and Text

Before using QuarkXPress's Color palette, you need to tell XPress whether you want to color the selected box's background, content, or frame, right? InDesign works the same way: Select one or more boxes, and then select whether you want to change the fill or the stroke attributes. These choices are found in three places: on the bottom of the Tools palette, and on the upper left corner of the Swatches and Color palettes (see Figure 80-1). You can also toggle between these two options by typing the letter X. If you pick the wrong attributefill instead of stroke, or

vice versa Shift-X swaps the fill and stroke colors.

Applying Colors to Frames

Once you select Fill or Stroke, you can then apply a color by clicking a swatch in the Swatches palette or choosing a color from the Color palette (see Chapter 79 for more information about the differences between these methods). You can also apply colors by dragging a color swatch from the Swatches or Color palettes onto the fill or stroke of a frame, even if the frame is not the selected object.

Changing the Color of Type

When selecting a text frame, you also need to tell InDesign whether you want to color the frame or the type inside the frame. There are two additional buttons found on the Tools, Swatches, and Color palettes: Formatting Affects Frame and Formatting Affects Text. It's crucial to pay attention to these because unlike QuarkXPress, InDesign can apply a stroke color to text without converting the text to outlines. You can even apply a fill color of None to make the text transparent (though of course you'll probably want to give the text a stroke or drop shadow to make it visible in some other way).