Reply To: Prevent stroke from changing dimensions position of frame? (cs4)

Um . . . I may have misunderstood the question, but . . .

In the strokes panel, after you select the size (weight) of the stroke, three little buttons with the title “align stroke” become active. The middle one of these, if selected, aligns your stroke to the inside of the frame, thus keeping your frame to its original dimensions. You can tinker with the stroke widths (weights) as much as you like and, rather than expanding the frame by the stroke width (if you choose the first button) or twice the stroke width (if you choose the third button), the stroke, regardless of width, impedes only onto the graphic content.

I am using CS4 but imagine it will be very similar (if not the same) in CS5.