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Pressure is the amount of air in one location which varies depending on temperature and other factors. You get high pressure when the air falls and low pressure when the air rises. However,there are different temperatures of air at lower levels of the atmosphere and where these air "masses" as they are called meet, you get a weather front. They do affect each other - low pressure systems (depressions) have different air masses entangled into it and therefore there are fronts in low pressures. Depressions also generally move around and between high pressures (anticyclones) and so high pressures do not move around as much as depressions. Pressure and fronts are often shown on the same weather image and the lines are called isobars which are lines of equal pressure.

A front is where two air masses meet.

Pressure is the amount of air.

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