Adobe InDesign CS5: Advanced Tutorials
Pages & Masters / Custom Page Set-ups
Subtitles of the Movie (Adobe InDesign CS5: Advanced / Pages & Masters / Custom Page Set-ups)
In this chapter I'm going to talk about Pages and Master Pages. Now if you listen to the InDesign CS5 Beginning tutorial you will have noted that these topics were covered but we're getting into some of the issues that were not covered in them. They may be a little bit of duplication and overlap on some items but it does no harm to go over some things again. So the first thing I want to cover is setting up Custom Page Sizes. Now if we want to create a new document we go to File and New Document like that. Here we have a choice for Print or Web. We're going to be dealing with print stuff for the time being. We get into Web stuff later on in this tutorial. And what we're going to do is set up a Postcard. Now if we go to the Page Size you can see there's a lot of built-in items here. These are pixel-based Web ones here, over here are European sizes, your standard U.S. sizes, but if we want something that's not there you can just go ahead and type it in. So we'll do a 4 by 6 Postcard. I'll do 6 by 4 so it'll be wide, and notice that as soon as I tab over there it goes into Landscape mode because the width always comes first and as the width is higher it's set. We're not going to have any Columns in this. Well, you always have 1 column I guess so we'll just have the one column then we can set the Margins. We'll set them all at .125, a good size there, and I'm going to click on More Options because we're going to bleed this. So we'll put an eighth of an inch, 125 here, like that and that goes on all sides. We won't need a Slug in this one because we don't need the information. We wouldn't have Facing Pages but we would have double-sided so we're going to need 2 pages here. So this is about it. Now if you do a lot of these what you want to do is save this so that you can go back and use it again. So I'll just go and hit Save Preset and we'll give it a name, and I'll just call it Postcard, and if I could type I'd be dangerous, 4 by 6, like that, click on OK and then I can go on OK and there it is there. It's going to be 2 Pages and we can create our work. Let's go ahead and close that and now we'll go File, New Document and we'll create a new one, so notice it defaults to the previous one used. I can go back to the other default. And let's do a 6 by 9 postcard. Oh, we'll do a Rack Card and that's 4 by 9, like that. Again, we'll go 2 Pages and I'll do this one quickly now. Margins .25 - probably a better margin for something like this anyway - and .125 like that for our Bleed. We'll save the Preset and we'll call it Rack Card. Don't really need to put in the size here because Rack Cards tend only to be one size, 4 by 9 like that, click on OK and there we have the Rack Card done. Scroll down, second page. Now, I'll close that out. Now any time that I want to use one of these options I just come up and in my Document Preset notice they're not down in the Page Size here. These don't change but the Document Presets up here, they do. If I want this 4 by 6 Postcard I can come in here, Rack Card I can just choose it and I don't have to go through and put these settings in every time. Something that this is very useful for, if you create a lot of ads and you have standard sizes you can just put the quarter page, eighth page, half page, et cetera, whatever you do, you've got it all set up ready to go and you just select it from this menu, click on OK and you're off to the races like that. It's just a little feature that helps speed up your workflow.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe InDesign CS5: Advanced |
| Author: | Brian White |
| SKU: | 34168 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-55-0 |
| Release Date: | 2010-10-13 |
| Duration: | 10 hrs / 133 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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