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.
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