Text frame setup

For text frame setup, you can use the Text panel's Text Frame section and options available via Expand.

About frame setups

Although the Frame Text Tool's context toolbar lets you format your frame text you use the Text panel to set the text frame stroke/fill color, insets, number of frame columns, irregular column and gutter widths, column rules, as well as vertical alignment control and a baseline grid.

Frame setups
Different text frame setups: (A) with white/grayscale stroke/fill, (B) plus insets, (C) as two columns of equal width, (D) as two columns of different widths, (E) as three columns of equal width, (F) as three columns using different gutter values.

Publisher will remember the last applied frame settings for new text frames.

Note that each frame retains its own independent frame properties. As a result, you can edit any selected text frame to change its setup just for that frame.

You can copy and paste text frame setups from a source text frame to one or more selected target text frames and also save any text frame as an asset in the Assets panel to a custom category, e.g. MyTextFrames.

Text panel To change a selected text frame's setup:
  1. On the Text panel, edit the fill/stroke color, stroke width, number of columns and vertical alignment.
  2. Expand Tap the Text Frame's and Column's Expand to edit insets, adjust columns/gutters, add/remove column rules and control the baseline grid.
Edit Menu To copy and paste a text frame setup:
  1. Select the source text frame.
  2. From the Edit menu, select Copy.
  3. Select the target text frame(s).
  4. From the Edit menu, select Paste Style.

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