Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 53)

47 USING INDESIGN
Layout
Last updated 11/16/2011
Create a document using a preset
1 Do one of the following:.
• Choose File > Document Preset > [name of preset]. (Hold down Shift while choosing the preset to create a new
document based on the preset without opening the New Document dialog box.)
• Choose File > New > Document, and then choose a preset from the Document Preset menu in the New
Document dialog box.
The New Document dialog box displays the preset layout options.
2 Make changes to the options (if desired) and click OK.
To skip the New Document dialog box, press the Shift key as you select a preset from the Document Preset menu.
Customize the pasteboard and guides
You can control the colors used to display guides for page margins and columns, as well as the guides for the bleed and
slug areas on the pasteboard. To make it easier to distinguish between the Normal and Preview modes, you can change
the color of the preview background.
InDesign also lets you control how close an object needs to be to snap to a guide, whether guides should be displayed
in front of or behind objects, as well as the size of the pasteboard.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard
(Mac OS).
2 Under Color, choose the desired colors from each of the following menus, or choose Custom to specify a custom
color using the color picker.
Margins Sets the color of the page margins.
Columns Sets the color of the column guides for the page.
Bleed Sets the color of the bleed area (which is set in the Document Setup dialog box).
Slug Sets the color of the slug area (which is set in the Document Setup dialog box).
Preview Background Sets the color of the pasteboard when in the Preview mode.
3 To set how close an object must be to snap to a guide or grid, specify a value in pixels for Snap To Zone.
4 To display guides behind objects, select Guides In Back.
5 To specify how far the pasteboard extends out from the page or spread (or the bleed or slug area, if specified), enter
values for Horizontal Margins and Vertical Margins.
6 Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
You can change the on-screen color of your paper. With no text or objects selected, double-click the Paper color in the
Swatches panel (choose Window
> Swatches). The Paper color appears on-screen only and does not affect output; it
is intended only to simulate designing for nonwhite paper.
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