Just a note for those of you preparing layout templates in Adobe InDesign CS2… The program’s Object Styles do not let you set up a default set of attributes for picture boxes (otherwise known as ‘Rectangle/Ellipse/Polygon Frames‘). Very confusingly, the [Basic Graphics Frame] default Object Style actually applies to boxes drawn with the plain shape tools (’Rectangle/Ellipse/Polygon’ without the cross-through inside). No matter what formatting you customise in the [Basic Graphics Frame] Object Style, none of it will apply to picture boxes, only to plain (non-graphic) shapes.
To set up a custom default for picture boxes, make sure nothing is selected on the page (or close all pages in order to set up an application-wide default), click on the Rectangle/Ellipse/Polygon Frame tool in the Tools palette as required, then make your formatting changes in the Swatches palette, Stroke palette and so on. Now every new picture box you draw will be formatted appropriately.
If you want to set up more than one type of default picture box, well you can’t — defaults come in singles, that’s what a ‘default’ means. To create two or more alternative formatting ‘defaults’ for picture boxes, create them as Object Styles.
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