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Setting up Documents, Pages, and Master Pages A document preset is a collection of settings for all of the controls and fields in the new Document dialog box. 18 Adobe InDesign CS3 | Conversion guide When you begin working on documents, you’ll be able to apply most of the document-building skills you’ve learned in QuarkXPress to InDesign. For example, when you create a new InDesign document, you specify the page size and the placement of margins and columns—just as you do with QuarkXPress. To create a multipage publication, you can save time and ensure consistency by setting up master pages before you begin working on document pages. Whether you’re creating a new document or laying out master pages, you’ll find that InDesign offers several useful features that QuarkXPress lacks. what do I need to know about creating new InDesign documents? In both QuarkXPress and InDesign, choosing File > New > Document or pressing Command+N in Mac OS or Ctrl+N in Windows displays the New Document dialog box. The controls in these dialog boxes are similar but not identical. Here are a few things you should know about creating a new InDesign document: • You can save any settings you assemble in the New Document dialog box as presets. After you create a preset, it’s displayed in the Document Preset menu in the New Document dialog box. Choose a preset when creating a new document to apply all of its settings (such as page size, margins, and columns). It then remains selected each time you create a new document until you choose a different preset. • If you choose [Default] in the Document Preset menu, the default settings are used in the New Document dialog box. You can modify the default settings by changing settings in the Document Setup dialog box (File > Document Setup) and the Margins And Columns dialog box (Layout > Margins And Columns) when no documents are open.
• InDesign offers 10 built-in page sizes, including Letter-Half, Legal- Half, A3, A5, and Compact Disc. • The maximum size of an InDesign page is 216" x 216" (that’s 18' x 18', compared to 48" x 48" or 4' x 4' in QuarkXPress). • You can specify the number of pages (up to 9,999). • In InDesign, the Master Text Frame check box in the New Document dialog box is analogous to the Automatic Text Box option in the QuarkXPress New Project dialog box. • Clicking More Options in the New Document dialog box displays controls for creating bleed and slug areas. The bleed area is used for objects that you want to extend all the way to the trimline of the printed document. The slug area is the ability to snap objects to gridlines and guidelines makes it easy to align objects when you’re laying out pages. used for instructions to the printer, sign-off forms, or other information related to a document. • If you change your mind about document settings as you work, you can use the Document Setup dialog box (File > Document Setup) to change the page size and number of pages, as well as switch a facing-page document into a non-facing-page document or vice versa. To change the settings you made for margins and columns in the New Document dialog box, select the document’s master pages in the Pages panel (Window > Pages), choose Lay- out > Margins And Columns, and make your changes. what gridlines and guidelines does InDesign offer? InDesign lets you create two kinds of nonprinting grids—a document grid and a baseline grid—as well as ruler guides and page guides. Also, you can create two kinds of baseline grids: document-wide baseline grids and text-frame-specific baseline grids. Here are brief descriptions of the kinds of gridlines and guidelines you can create with InDesign: Document grids. A document grid looks like graph paper and is useful for aligning objects. To create a document grid, choose InDesign > Preferences > Grids in Mac OS or Edit > Preferences > Grids in Windows. In the Document Grid area of the Grids pane, choose a grid color, and specify grid attributes by entering values for the Horizontal and Vertical options. To show a document grid, choose View > Grids & Guides > Show Document Grid. Setting up Documents, Pages, and Master Pages 19
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