How to create rectangle without stroke?

[Ismaildefranc]

Hi,

I need to find out how to draw a rectangle without a stroke.

For some reason the default is always to have a 1 point stroke and when I set it to 0, the rectangle always becomes smaller then the original size.

Also the stroke is set to 'Aligned to inside' but after changing to 0 pt for the stroke, the stroke changes to be aligned to center.

Please see image below.

Ismail

[Barb Binder]

Hi Ismail:

Open Window > Styles > Object Styles, select the Rectangle tool and draw the rectangle. You will see that rectangles are automatically assigned the object style called [Basic Graphic Frame]. Delete the rectangle, edit [Basic Graphic Frame] to remove the stroke. Now all current and all future rectangles in that file using the [Basic Graphic Frame] definition will no longer have a stroke.

~Barb

[Ismaildefranc]

Thank you Barb, I usually use Illustrator so this issue has never come up. It does make sense how the box styles are the same as the character styles.

Best Regards,

Ismail

[jane-e]

Look again at your two frames. The first does not have the stroke on the inside. It is centered. The frames themselves are the same size; the first looks bigger because half of the stroke is outside of the frame.

Illustrator lets you measure either way. I can’t remember if InDesign does.

Regardless, do as Barb suggested. Note that she said “in that file”. To do it in all future files you need to have all documents closed.

Jane

[Bill Silbert]

With no document open set the fill and stroke icons in the tool panel to "None" and then quit InDesign. When you relaunch this should now become the default.