Adobe CS5.5 (v.7.5) Windows Upgrade SE 65103498 User Manual

QuarkXPress is limited to putting frames around boxes 

and changing line width. With InDesign, you can add a 

stroke to any InDesign object, including a path, frame, or 

selected text, with the Control or the Stroke panel. Then 

apply a color, a tint, or a gradient to the stroke using the 

Swatches, Color, Gradient, Control, or Tools panel.

Both programs let you spec-

ify how text flows around 

an obstructing object. In 

QuarkXPress, you use the 

Runaround dialog box; in 

InDesign, you use the Text 

Wrap panel. For more infor-

mation, see “Text wrap” on 

In QuarkXPress, you use the Linking and Unlinking 

tools to control text flow through multiple text boxes. In 

InDesign, each text frame has an in port and an out port 

that let you flow text through multiple frames, a process 

called “threading” (see “Text threading” on page 13).

To make a table object in QuarkXPress, you must use the 

Table tool. In InDesign, tables are always anchored inside 

text frames. After clicking an insertion point in a text 

frame with the Type tool, you can make a table by choos-

ing Table > Insert Table. For more information on creat-

ing tables, see “Working with tables” on page 28.

QuarkXPress handles text spacing and hyphenation by 

defining styles in the H&Js dialog box. In InDesign, you 

can change these settings on individual paragraphs using 

the Hyphenation and Justification dialog boxes, found in 

the Paragraph panel menu. You can also edit hyphenation 

and justification values when defining each paragraph 

style in your document.

In InDesign, named colors are 

called swatches. A swatch can 

be a solid color, a tint of a solid 

color, a mixed ink swatch (see 

the next page), or a gradient. 

Choose Window > Color > 

Swatches to open the Swatches 

panel, where you can create, 

apply, delete, and load swatches. 

InDesign also has a Color panel 

(Window > Color > Color) that 

lets you mix and apply unnamed colors and,  

optionally, add them to the Swatches panel.

In InDesign, the Paper swatch simulates the color of the 

paper on which you’re printing and is analogous to the 

color White in QuarkXPress.

Unlike QuarkXPress, which limits you to two-color 

blends, InDesign lets you include as many colors as you 

want in a gradient, and you can also adjust the midpoint 

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