rectange frame tool vs. rectangle tool?

[hippogriff]

Good day,

Ok, I checked the book and I checked the help section and I still cant find the difference between the rectangle frame tool and the rectangle tool. I've been playing with both of them and it's just not obvious to me. Anyone know?

 

[jmgalvin]

The frame tool is used for making a box to place other stuff, most commonly an image. If you select it and then Place, whatever you place will go into that box. On the object menu the content of the frame can be changed to text or image

The rectangle tool is for drawing a box, not for placing items.

Note that both tools have variations available such as elipse or polygon.


Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4