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e Fill and Stroke buons in the Control
panel let you apply solid colors, tints, and
gradients, even if all other panels are
closed.
Note that you can apply a color, tint,
or gradient to the ll or stroke of text
characters without converting the
text to outlines. (If you do choose
Type > Create Outlines, the resulting
text is no longer editable.)
If you have one or more text frames
selected with the Selection tool, you
can apply a ll or stroke to the text
within each frame by rst clicking
the Formatting Aects Text icon
in the Tools panel, Swatches panel,
or Color panel. If instead you select
the Formatting Aects Container
icon , the ll or stroke is applied
to the selected frame rather than to
the text.
e Default Fill And Stroke icon
in the Tools panel lets you return the
Fill and Stroke icons to their default
settings. e Swap Fill And Stroke
icon reverses the colors of the
stroke and ll icons.
Selecting images versus frames
In QuarkXPress, you must select the
Content tool before you can modify
either text or a graphic. InDesign
doesn’t have a single tool for modify-
ing both text and graphics. Instead, if
you want to modify a graphic with-
out aecting its frame, choose the
Selection tool, place the cursor over
the graphic, and click or drag the cir-
cular Content Grabber. Alternatively,
you can double-click the frame—if
it is a text frame, InDesign switches
to the Type tool and places the text
cursor where you clicked. If it is a
graphic frame, InDesign selects the
graphic inside the frame.
For example, if you want to move an
image into another frame, click its
Content Grabber with the Selection
tool (to select the graphic inside the
frame), choose Edit > Cut, select the
destination frame, and choose Edit >
Paste Into.
Similarly, you can change the color
of imported black-and-white and
grayscale graphics (but not of color
graphics) by rst selecting the
graphic and then clicking a color in
the Swatches panel.
e tool you use when scaling or
resizing a graphic also determines
the result. For more information on
scaling, resizing, and cropping, see
“Working with graphics and frames”
on page 23.
Ruler guides are objects
To create a ruler guide, click the
horizontal or vertical ruler, and drag
the pointer onto a page or the paste-
board. If you release the pointer over
a page, the guideline extends across
the page. If you release the pointer
over the pasteboard, the guideline
spans the page and pasteboard. You
can also double-click a ruler to create
a guideline where you click. (Hold
down the Shi key while dragging or
double-clicking to add the guide at
the nearest ruler tick mark.)
Ruler guides behave much like
objects you create with the drawing
tools. You can select a ruler guide by
clicking it with the Selection, Direct
Selection, or Position tool, and you
can select multiple guides by Shi-
clicking or by clicking and dragging
over two or more guides.
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When you select an image inside a frame
with the Direct Selection tool, you can see
its bounding box and transform it separately
from the frame.