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Adobe InDesign CS5: Advanced Tutorials
Pages & Masters / Mixed Page Sizes pt. 1
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Now here's a great new feature in InDesign CS5 and that's Mixed Page Sizes. Before in InDesign if you created a document that was 8 and a half by 11 then every page in that document had to be 8 and a half by 11. Now you can change it. So let's use this as an example. We've created a Business Card, now we need to create Letterhead and Envelope. So, in the past what we would do is go through and create a new document for Letterhead and a new one for Envelope, and then three separate PDFs and let's do it differently. So, what we're going to do is we'll open our Pages Panel and we'll create a New Page. Now any time you create a new page you cannot change the size from there. What you do is you create the page and then change the size of it. So what we do is go over and this tool below the Direct Select Tool, Page Tool. And I'll select it and then you click on your page like this. It's only a Master. That's the Master that's been applied to this. We don't have any Master Page items so we don't need to worry about it here. So what we can do is come over here and change the size. There it said the standard business card size. I'll change it to the Letterhead size which is 8 and a half by 11, like that, and then just click away and I'll zoom out, Ctrl- or Cmd-zero like that, and there it is. Click away and that Master disappears and then we can select the items here, drag them down here. I'll hold - I'm sorry. Let me undo that. I'll just copy them, come down here and paste them in here and I'll just do a quick resizing of everything here. I'm not going to have black letterhead here because it would be pretty difficult to print on anyway if we did that. So there we have the header and there we have the text. I'll just left justify it here and change it to black like that. I'm not worrying too much about how we position this on the page for the purposes of this tutorial. So now we've created the Letterhead we can create the Envelope. Let's go back to the Pages Panel and we'll create a New Page. Again, it always comes in in the default size which is 3.5 by 2. Come over, select our Page Tool, click on it, and then we can just come in. You can resize it from here but it's actually better for this purpose if we change it up here. And then we'll change it, 9.5 - I may be wrong here what it is - 4.125, which is a Number 10 Envelope. I'll zoom out again, Ctrl- or Cmd-zero, click away and there we've got the envelope. I'll just paste everything in again and, actually I'll delete that. It's going to be easier if I take it off from the Letterhead. I'll just select this, copy it, go back to my Envelope, zoom out - Ctrl- or Cmd-zero - paste it in, select it like this, pop it over here and you don't normally put the phone number or the website there so I'll just remove that, and there we have Business Card, Letterhead, and Envelope all in the same page. So, let's see what happens when we export it to PDF. We'll go File, Export, and here we'll call it Stationery, we'll just put it on the Desktop there like that and we'll hit Save, and I'm just going to choose a different one here. I'm just going to choose Press Quality here and I'm going to put in some Crop Marks here so that we can see it. We'll use the Document Bleed Settings which is .125, Export. It'll take a couple of seconds to do it and there, it's got our Business Card, it's got our Letterhead - see the crop marks there? And there, it's got the Envelope all in the same PDF like that, and that is a really nice 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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