Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 48)

INDESIGN CS3
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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.
Master Text Frame Select this option to create a text frame the size of the area within the margin guides, matching
the column settings you specified. The master text frame is added to the A-Master. (See “Using text frames on master
pages” on page 113.)
The Master Text Frame option is available only when you’ve chosen File > New > Document.
Page Size Choose a page size from the menu, or type values for Width and Height. Page size represents the final size
you want after bleeds or other marks outside the page are trimmed.
Orientation Click Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide). These icons interact dynamically with the dimensions
you enter in Page Size. When Height is the larger value, the portrait icon is selected. When Width is the larger value,
the landscape icon is selected. Clicking the deselected icon switches the Height and Width values.
To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options in the New Document dialog box. To make
the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings The Same icon
.
Bleed The Bleed area allows you to print objects that are arranged at the outer edge of the defined page size. For a
page of the required dimensions, if an object is positioned at its edge, some white may appear at the edge of the
printed area due to slight misalignment during printing. For this reason, you should position an object that is at the
edge of the page of the required dimensions a little beyond the edge, and trim after printing. Bleed area is shown by
a red line on the document. You can set bleed area settings from Bleed in the Print dialog box.
Slug The slug area is discarded when the document is trimmed to its final page size. The slug area holds printing
information, customized color bar information, or displays other instructions and descriptions for other infor-
mation in the document. Objects (including text frames) positioned in the slug area are printed but will disappear
when the document is trimmed to its final page size.
Objects outside the bleed or slug area (whichever extends farther) do not print.
Note: You can also click Save Preset to save document settings for future use.
Document window overview
Each page or spread in your document has its own pasteboard and guides, which are visible in Normal View mode.
(To switch to Normal View, choose View > Screen Mode > Normal.) The pasteboard is replaced with a gray
background when the document is viewed using one of the Preview modes. You can change the color of this preview
background and guides in Guides & Pasteboard preferences.
Document and guides in Normal View Mode
A. Spread (black lines) B. Page (black lines) C. Margin guides (magenta lines) D. Column guides (violet lines) E. Bleed area (red lines)
F. Slug area (blue lines)
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