XML Structure

Frames can be used in various locations in a CHILI document. Undoubtedly the most iportant one is as the content of a page:

<document>
  <pages>
    <item id="123-456-789" marginLeft="10mm" marginTop="10mm" marginRight="10mm" marginBottom="50mm">
       <sectionOptions newSection="true" pageStart="4" />
       <frames>
          <item type="rectangle" x="10mm" y="10mm" width="50mm" height="20mm" />
       </frames>
    </item>
  </pages>
</document>

As described in ?General XML Concepts, an actual frame won't be an object of type ?Document Object Model - Frame (which describes the general settings only), but rather of an inheriting frame type (eg ?Document Object Model - ImageFrame).

Frame item node

Most frames share certain features, though. Do keep in mind that not all of these apply to all frame types (eg: a SnippetFrame does not support dropshadows. A LineFrame does not support fill, etc...).

Some of the important groups of properties are:

Positioning

x, y, width, height: general positioning, from the topleft of the page (without bleed/slug)
rotation (in degrees, clockwise, calculated from the topleft corner)
skewX (in degrees, clockwise, calculated from the topleft corner)
insetLeft, insetRight, insetTop, insetBottom: for frames containing content (text, image, ...) these contain the insets for that content

Border, fill, effects

hasBorder: if "true", the border settings are applied
borderXXX: the various border settings
hasFill: if "true", the frame has a fill
fillXXX: the various fill settings
opacity: percentage (default = 100, which is fully visible. 0 = fully transparent)
hasDropShadow: if "true", the dropShadowXXX properties influence the dropshadow settings
blendMode

Constraints and Visibility

anchors
layer
alternateLayouts
frameConstraints and frameContentConstraints
moveRegion. If "custom", the moveRegionXXXX properties define the custom region
minWidth, minHeight, maxWidth, maxHeight
preserveAspectRatio

Text Wrap

wrapText: if "true", the other wrapXXXX properties define the wrap settings

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