Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 153)

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Layout and design
Last updated 6/6/2015
For publishing for multiple formats and sizes, you can choose a design strategy that suits a project best: Hand crafted,
semi-automated, or fully automated. The degree of design control decreases as you rely on automated workflows.
InDesign provides several enhancements for your adopted strategy to balance cost and control.
Note: Automatic Liquid Layout based-publishing is not possible yet, because of the unavailability of compliant viewer
technologies.
Recommended workflow
A Alternate layout workflow B Alternate layout and liquid page rules
STEP 1 : Choose a target device and its corresponding dimension and orientation. Then create your primary layout for
all the pages.
STEP 2 : Optionally, add Adobe Liquid Layout page rules to help adapt content to different aspect ratios and sizes.
Liquid page rules are useful if you're targeting multiple devices. Without Liquid page rules, you'll have to manually
create a unique layout for every possible size and orientation. See .
STEP 3 : Use the Create Alternate Layout feature to create new pages in the same document. Depending on your
primary layout and the Liquid page rules, you may need to manually tune the layout. Repeat this step for each new size
and orientation. See .
Liquid layouts
Liquid layouts make it easier to design content for multiple page sizes, orientations, or devices. Apply liquid page rules
to determine how objects on a page are adapted when you create alternate layouts and change the size, orientation, or
aspect ratio.