InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

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 of a frame the

stroke . When you change the thickness of a stroke, you change its

stroke weight . Similarly, when a frame has a background color, InDesign calls it the

fill .

The other basic element of a QuarkXPress page is a line. InDesign again borrows from Illustrator calling these

paths . Note that we also call the edge around a frame a path.