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Chapter 3: Layout<br />

For detailed information and instructions, click the links below.<br />

Creating documents<br />

For detailed information and instructions, click the links below.<br />

Create new documents<br />

Page design begins with the basics: starting a new document, setting up pages, and positioning margins and columns<br />

or changing grid settings.<br />

More <strong>Help</strong> topics<br />

“Recommended workflow for <strong>InDesign</strong> documents” on page 100<br />

“Use document templates” on page 104<br />

“Add documents to a book file” on page 313<br />

Create a new document<br />

1 Choose File > New > Document.<br />

The New Document dialog box combines the Document Setup and the Margins And Columns dialog boxes, so that<br />

you can set up the page size, margins, and page columns all in one place. You can change these settings at any time.<br />

2 Specify document setup options. (See “New Document options” on page 44.)<br />

To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options. The bleed and slug areas extend out from<br />

the edges of the defined Page Size. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All<br />

Settings The Same icon .<br />

3 Click OK to open a new document with the settings you specified.<br />

To set default layout settings for all new documents, choose File > Document Setup or Layout > Margins And<br />

Columns, and set options when no documents are open.<br />

New Document options<br />

Document Preset Choose a preset that you have saver earlier.<br />

Intent If you are creating a document to be output to PDF or SWF for the web, choosing the Web option changes<br />

several options in the dialog box, such as turning off Facing Pages, changing the orientation from portrait to landscape,<br />

and using a page size based on monitor resolution. You can edit any of these settings, but you cannot change the Intent<br />

setting after the document is created.<br />

Number of pages Specify the number of pages to create in the new document.<br />

Start Page # Specify which number the document starts on. If you specify an even number (such as 2) with Facing<br />

Pages selected, the first spread in the document begins with a two-page spread. See “Start a document with a two-page<br />

spread” on page 67.<br />

Last updated 11/16/2011<br />

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