Set options for layout adjustment – Adobe InDesign CS5 User Manual
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Last updated 11/16/2011
The Layout Adjustment feature produces more predictable results when a layout is tightly based on a framework of
margins, page columns, and ruler guides, and where objects are snapped to guides. Results are less predictable when
objects don’t adhere to margins, columns, and guides, or when extraneous ruler and column guides clutter a page.
Layout adjustment is not affected by the document grid or the baseline grid.
Page designed vertically, for print (left); page orientation changed for on-screen viewing, with layout automatically refitted by the Layout
Adjustment feature (right)
You can modify the rules in the Layout Adjustment dialog box. The Layout Adjustment feature attempts to
approximate the proportions of the old layout in the new layout by doing the following:
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Adding or removing column guides, if the new layout specifies a different number of columns.
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If the page size changes, moving ruler guides to maintain proportional distances from page edges, margins, or
column guides.
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Moving objects already aligned to any margin, column, bleed/slug, or ruler guide, or to any two guides
perpendicular to each other, so that the objects stay with those guides if the guides move during layout adjustment.
Also, objects already aligned to any page edge or to any page edges perpendicular to each other are moved.
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Proportionally resizing objects already aligned to two parallel margin, column, bleed/slug, or ruler guides or to
guides on three sides, so that the objects stay with those guides if the guides move during layout adjustment. Also,
objects aligned to two parallel page edges or to page edges on three sides are moved.
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Maintain the relative position of objects that are anchored to the text as specified in the Anchored Object Options
dialog box.
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Moving objects to keep them in the same relative position on the page, if the page size changes.
Note: Layout Adjustment affects columns inside a text frame differently than it does page columns. If the frame itself is
resized by Layout Adjustment and the Fixed Column Width option is not selected in the Object > Text Frame Options
dialog box, text frame columns are resized proportionally. If the Fixed Column Width option is selected, columns are
added or removed as necessary.
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Set options for layout adjustment
Note that changing options in the Layout Adjustment dialog box does not immediately change anything. Layout
adjustment is triggered only by changes to page size, page orientation, margins, or column settings, or when a new
master is applied. When you want to restore a layout to its previous state, you must undo the action that triggered the
layout adjustment.
1 Choose Layout > Layout Adjustment.
2 Select Enable Layout Adjustment.
3 Specify the layout adjustment options, and click OK.