Chapter 3: layout, Creating documents, Create new documents – Adobe InDesign CS3 User Manual
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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.
You can also create tables of contents and indexes by managing a document in a book file with InDesign.
For a video on setting up new documents, see
See also
“Recommended workflow for InDesign documents” on page 90
“Use document templates” on page 94
“Add documents to a book file” on page 274
“Define document presets” on page 44
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 40.)
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. Deselect this
option to let each page stand alone, such as when you plan to print on both sides of a sheet of paper or want objects
to bleed in the binding.