Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 51)

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Chapter 3: Layout
The decisions you make when you first set up a document affect how efficiently you can design and produce pages.
Proper planning helps you and your vendors save money and time.
Creating documents
Create new documents
Page design begins with the basics: starting a new document, setting up pages, and positioning margins and columns
or changing grid settings.
For a video tutorial on setting up new documents, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4273_id .
See also
“ Recommended workflow for InDesign documents ” on page 97
“ Use document templates ” on page 102
“ Add documents to a book file ” on page 291
Create a new document
1 Choose File > New > Document.
The New Document dialog box combines the Document Setup and the Margins And Columns dialog boxes, so that
you can set up the page size, margins, and page columns all in one place. You can change these settings at any time.
2 Choose a Page Size or specify a custom Width and Height for your document.
3 Click the orientation for the page, either Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide).
4 Specify options in the Margins and Columns sections, if necessary.
5 To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options. The bleed and slug areas extend out from
the edges of the defined Page Size. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All
Settings The Same icon
. (See “ New Document options ” on page 43.)
6 Click OK to open a new document with the settings you specified.
To set default layout settings for all new documents, choose File > Document Setup or Layout > Margins And
Columns, and set options when no documents are open.
New Document options
Facing Pages Select this option to make left and right pages face each other in a double-page spread, such as for books
and magazines. Deselect this option to let each page stand alone, such as when you’re printing flyers or posters or when
you want objects to bleed in the binding.
After you’ve created a document, you can use the Pages panel to create spreads with more than two pages or force the
first two pages to open as a spread. (See “
Control spread pagination ” on page 64.)
Updated 18 June 2009