Go to your A-Master, then use Layout > Create Guides… To create horizontal guides on your pages. Navigate the Margins & Columns dialogue with the keyboard. At least you won’t need to add it after the fact if you discover you need it. Even if you’re not sure that the document will bleed, there’s no harm in having it there. When you’re setting up your new document in InDesign, it’s a good idea to add a bleed. In InDesign, it appears as a red line around the perimeter of your pages.Īdd a bleed to your document from the New Document dialogue. The page bleed is the excess space you set to allow for inaccuracy when your commercial printer trims your pages. All you need to do is click on the icon shown above to make the little arrow appear. If you didn’t check the Primary Text Frame checkbox when you created the document, you can always go to your Master Pages to activate them there. The beauty of Primary Text Frames is that when you apply a new Master with a Primary Frame, it adapts to the new layout with the text simply re-flowing through it. There can only be one primary text stream through a document. Primary Text frames are used for the main text of a story. They’re like a stream going through your document. Well, those text frames are the Primary Text Frames. There’s also the guts of the main story you’re reading. There are ads, side bars, titles, photos and more.

When you’re reading a mainstream magazine, there’s usually a lot going on in the pages. If it’s going to be printed as loose sheets, then you don’t need to use Facing Pages.įacing Pages in the New Document dialogue.

Use facing pages if your document is a saddle-stitched publication. See how an eight-column grid is mostly used as a four-column grid.įor most part, you can ignore the eights. The first goal is to keep line length and margins reasonable. To start, keep your grids as simple as possible. It’s unseen when printed, but essential to consistent pages. The page grid is the framework that holds your layout together. If you need to, you can change settings after the fact. We want to pay attention when setting up our document in the New Document dialogue. Remember! Design on paper, then build on the computer. Build your Master Pages based on these thumbnails.

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