Define document presets, Create a document using a preset, Customize the pasteboard and guides – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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Layout
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Column guides appear in front of margin guides. When a column guide is exactly in front of a margin guide, it hides
the margin guide.
Creating custom page sizes
If you routinely specify a custom page size, you can add it to the Page Size menu in the New Document dialog box.
You add custom page sizes to the Page Size menu by editing the New Doc Sizes text file in the Presets folder (in the
InDesign application folder). This text file is self-documenting; to define custom page sizes, open the file in a text editor
and follow the instructions in the file itself.
Page sizes defined in the New Doc Sizes file will appear in the New Document dialog box and the Document Settings
dialog box.
Note: You can also specify a custom page size in the New Document dialog box or the Document Settings dialog box;
however, custom page sizes specified in these dialog boxes are not available to other documents you create.
See also
Change document setup, margins, and columns
Define document presets
You can save document settings for page size, columns, margins, and bleed and slug areas in a preset to save time and
ensure consistency when creating similar documents.
1 Choose File
> Document Presets
> Define.
2 Click New in the dialog box that appears.
3 Specify a name for the preset and select basic layout options in the New Document Preset dialog box. (See “
” on page 43 for a description of each option.)
4 Click OK twice.
You can save a document preset to a separate file and distribute it to other users. To save and load document preset
files, use the Save and Load buttons in the Document Presets dialog box.
Create a document using a preset
1 Do one of the following:.
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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.)
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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.
Updated 18 June 2009