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Liquid layouts
Alternate layouts and Liquid Layout page rules, give you the flexibility to efficiently design for multiple page sizes, orientations, or aspect ratios.
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.
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.
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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
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