Frames

Text frame / auto frame

Adobe InDesign has an option which will create automatically a text frame on every page added in the flat plan, each frame is threaded to the previous page frame. This option is available in the new file creation window:

In Adobe InDesign: File > New > Document

With Adobe InDesign, this option is named “primary text frame”.

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Figure 1. Adobe InDesign screenshot

Unless you absolutely need it – to generate an index or a table of contents in a long document for example – it is strongly recommended to deactivate this option in files prepared for to Wedia.

Frames and unused guides

When creating a document, you usually create more guides and frames than really needed, either to facilitate the building of a new document, or forecasting a future need. This process is not disturbing in a traditional use. But it can annoy a platform user, because the server won’t make the difference between a useful and a useless frame.

Once your layout is ready, we recommend you to clean your document deleting all useless frames and guides.

Ghost image frame

When you create an "empty" frame in your lay-out, to create a tint area for example, this frame can be defined as an "image" frame, depending the tool you used. If you don’t change this parameter, the platform will consider this frame is editable which could disrupt final user, especially editing the document on the web. All frames which are not specifically aimed to contain images (we call them ghost image frames) must be set as Unassigned content.

In InDesign, select a ghost image frame by clicking on it. Then right click and choose Content > Unassigned in the contextual menu.

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The image frame has a cross inside if the option "Show Frame Edges" is on; and after defining its content as Unassigned, the cross disappears.

Grouped frames

When frames are grouped in a source file, they can still be edited through the web interface of Wedia.

Locked frames

Adobe InDesign offers a frame “lock”. This option has been used for a long time by graphic designers to secure some components of the graphic charter.

Adobe InDesign only locks the position of a frame (right click > “Lock”). It prevents the frame from being moved or accidentally deleted, but doesn’t prevent the modification of its content. To lock the edition of the content of a frame (image or text) in Adobe InDesign, you need to place it on a locked layer (see below).

The InDesign Lock option usually creates dysfunctions on the platform. If you need to secure some elements, preventing anyone to change its content when editing the document through the web interface, we recommend you to place them on dedicated layers that you will lock, or on the page master.

Objects styles

Adobe InDesign has, in its recents versions, a feature which proposes you to create objects styles, the same way we create paragraph and character styles, to create for example: stroke style, a image frame style, a tint area style…

You can use object styles in files prepared for Wedia.