Creating Frames in PageMaker

Creating Frames in PageMaker

Frames:

PageMaker 7.0 includes a special kind of object called a frame. While a frame behaves in many ways like any other PageMaker graphic object (for example – a frame can have stroke and fill attributes), a frame differs in two important ways:

1.A frame can hold content – either text or graphics – or serve as a placeholder for content.

2. One text frame can be threaded to other text frames so that a single story can flow through multiple frames.

In general, you’ll want to use frames as placeholders for content in structured documents such as newspapers or newsletters.

Advantages of Frames:

By drawing empty frames as placeholders and threading text frames together, you create a template in which the layout and structure of the publication is set and content is easily poured into assigned spaces.

Creating a Frame:

1.To create a frame you use the  tools in the toolbox. 

Note:  If you add a frame to a master page, its border and content appears on each publication page to which the master is applied – you cannot, from a publication page, add content to a frame placed on a master 

page.

2. Create or select a PageMaker shape.

3. Choose Element > Frame > Change to Frame. The shape preserves its fill, line weight and other object attributes.