Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 18)

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Workspace and workflow
Last updated 6/6/2015
Master Text Frame CS5.5 and earlier: Select this option to create a text frame the size of the area within the margin
guides, matching the column settings you specified. The master text frame is added to the A Master. (See Using text
frames on master pages .)
The Master Text Frame option is available only when you’ve chosen File > New > Document.
Primary Text Frame CS6 and later: select this option to add a primary text frame on the master page. When you apply
a new master page, the story in the primary text frame automatically flows into the primary text frame of the new
master page.
Page Size Choose a page size from the menu, or type values for Width and Height. Page size represents the final size
you want after bleeds or other marks outside the page are trimmed.
Orientation Click Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide). These icons interact dynamically with the dimensions
you enter in Page Size. When Height is the larger value, the portrait icon is selected. When Width is the larger value,
the landscape icon is selected. Clicking the deselected icon switches the Height and Width values.
Tip : To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click the Arrow button before the Bleed and Slug label in the
New Document dialog box. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings The
Same icon
.
Bleed The Bleed area allows you to print objects that are arranged at the outer edge of the defined page size. For a page
of the required dimensions, if an object is positioned at its edge, some white may appear at the edge of the printed area
due to slight misalignment during printing or trimming. For this reason, you should position an object that is at the
edge of the page of the required dimensions a little beyond the edge, and trim after printing. Bleed area is shown by a
red line on the document. You can set bleed area settings from Bleed in the Print dialog box.
Slug The slug area is discarded when the document is trimmed to its final page size. The slug area holds printing
information, customized color bar information, or displays other instructions and descriptions for other information
in the document. Objects (including text frames) positioned in the slug area are printed but will disappear when the
document is trimmed to its final page size.
Objects outside the bleed or slug area (whichever extends farther) do not print.
Preview (Only in InDesign CC) Select this checkbox to see how your new document will look like. Make necessary
changes to the options if the preview is not as desired.
Note: You can also click the Save Document Preset icon to save document settings for future use.
Document window overview
Each page or spread in your document has its own pasteboard and guides, which are visible in Normal View mode. (To
switch to Normal View, choose View > Screen Mode > Normal.) The pasteboard is replaced with a gray background
when the document is viewed using one of the Preview modes. (See
Preview documents .) You can change the color of
this preview background and guides in Guides & Pasteboard preferences.