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Style Comments and Use
Watermark The default style for a watermark, a graphic placed as
the background to a body of text. The default is a
Through wrap, with text passing over the frame and
anything in it. The graphic should be faint enough that
text still is readable over top of it.
Creating new frame styles
You can access frame settings by selecting New or Modify in the
Styles and Formatting window for a frame style.
Frame settings are available from the following tabbed pages:
Type
page: sets the size and position of the frame. One of the
most useful options here is AutoSize, which automatically adjusts
the frame to the object it contains. If the frame style is one used
automatically, then this option should be selected.
Options
page: sets whether the contents of the frame are printed
and able to be edited in a read-only document. The tab also sets
the text direction, which is useful if you are using the frame for
contents in a language that uses right-to-left text direction.
Wrap
page: sets how text is positioned in relation to the frame
and how close text comes to a frame. If you want the frame
contents to stand out from the paragraphs around it, set the wrap
to None. This probably is the single most important tab for
frames.
Background
page: sets the background color or graphic. This tab
is useful mostly for text frames in complex page layouts, in which
a text frame has an appearance different from the general
background of the page.
Border
page: sets the line around the frame, if any. Many
beginning designers make the mistake of adding a border to
every frame. However, when a colored background distinctly
marks the division between the frame’s contents and the rest of
the page, borders are unnecessary.
Columns
page: this tab can be ignored unless the frame is being
used for text. The page is the same that is used to set up a page
style, and its parameters are described in the section “Columns
page” on page 248.
Macro
page: sets a macro to use with the frame in order to
trigger some action when the user interacts with the frame. These
options are useful only in an on-line Writer or HTML document.
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