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Adobe InDesign CS5: Advanced Tutorials
Pages & Masters / Rotating Pages
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In this example here I'm creating an invitation. Now this is a card, it's 6 by 8, and what we're going to do is fold it in half and put it in an envelope. So what I would have to do here is select this and then I would rotate it a couple of times like that and then size it, but I'm working upside down with my text and that's kind of a pain. So what I'm actually going to do is rotate the page and this is a great feature that came in with InDesign CS4. A couple of ways you can do it. You can come down to the Menu here, you can choose Rotate Spread View and you've got 90 degrees, Clockwise and Counterclockwise, for those of us who remember times before digital watches, and here we have 180 degrees; that's a complete turn. But the other way we can do it is to just come in, click on it with your context sensitive menu, right-click, Rotate Spread View, and here we'll just rotate it 180 degrees. Now everything turns upside down but we can select these and then I can just rotate them. Flipping Vertically is a little different than Rotating so rotating twice gives you a different result and that way I can just move this down. That Guideline is the halfway mark that we've got there and then just resize it like this. Oh, I had some lines there. Let me select those, move them into place like this, and then I'll just close this up and put in a Headline. We'll put in You're Invited. There we go. And I'll take it and I'll change it to that font that I've been using, Blackadder. There he goes, like that, and I'm just going to scale it manually, hold down Cmd-Shift or Ctrl-Shift, drag it up like that, place it in the middle. I'll change the color. Remember I've got to select the Type Tool here, up here like this. Change it to white like this. Give it a little rotation, there we go. You're Invited, like this. Now, I'm doing this all the other way. If I go back here I can just right-click on it, Clear Rotation like that, I'll Center it, Ctrl- or Cmd-zero, on the page, go into Preview Mode, just hit W that takes me in there, and there we've got it. Let me go back and rotate it again, 180 degrees like this. Now just because it's rotated on the page like this doesn't mean to say it'll print this way and I'll show you what I mean. If I go to the File Menu and choose Export and here we're on the Desktop. I've already created this so I'll just overwrite this existing one here. Export to PDF, the PDF opens. I'll go on the page, zoom out again, Ctrl- or Cmd-zero works exactly the same way in Acrobat Reader, and you can see even though we were looking at it in InDesign the right way up for this, when we move back to Acrobat it puts it the way it is in the document. So anytime you work like this, it'll just show on the page like this and it'll have this little rotation icon over here beside it. But when it goes to print it'll always print the right way up without the Rotation. Keep that in mind. But this is a simple but very useful feature.
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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