Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 49)

INDESIGN CS3
User Guide
42
Document window notes:
• Lines of other colors are ruler guides which, when present, appear in the layer color when selected.
• 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.
See also
“Preview documents” on page 548
“Assign a layer color” on page 71
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.
InDesign also lets you control how close an object needs to be to snap to a guide, whether guides should be displayed
in front of or behind objects, as well as the size of the pasteboard.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard
(Mac OS).
2 Under Color, choose the desired colors from each of the following menus, or choose Custom to specify a custom
color using the color picker.
Margins Sets the color of the page margins.
Columns Sets the color of the column guides for the page.
Bleed Sets the color of the bleed area (which is set in the Document Setup dialog box).
Slug Sets the color of the slug area (which is set in the Document Setup dialog box).
Preview Background Sets the color of the pasteboard when in the Preview mode.
3 To set how close an object must be to snap to a guide or grid, specify a value in pixels for Snap to Zone.
4 To display guides behind objects, select Guides in Back.
5 To specify how far the pasteboard extends out from the page or spread (or the bleed or slug area, if specified), enter
a value for Minimum Vertical Offset.
6 Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
You can change the on-screen color of your paper. With no text or objects selected, double-click the Paper color in the
Swatches panel (choose Window > Swatches). The Paper color appears on-screen only and does not affect output; it
is intended only to simulate designing for nonwhite paper.
Change document setup
Changing options in the Document Setup dialog box affects every page in the document. If you change page size or
orientation after objects have been added to pages, you can use the Layout Adjustment feature to minimize the
amount of time needed for arranging existing objects.
1 Choose File > Document Setup.
2 Specify the document options, and then click OK. (See “New Document options” on page 40.)