Create masters – Adobe InDesign CS3 User Manual
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Tips and guidelines for masters
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You can compare alternative design ideas by creating a variety of masters and applying them in turn to sample
pages containing typical content.
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To quickly lay out new documents, you can save a set of masters in a document template, along with paragraph
and character styles, color libraries, and other styles and presets.
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If you change column or margin settings on a master, or apply a new master with different column and margin
settings, you can force objects on the page to adjust to the new layout automatically. (See “About automatic layout
adjustment” on page 77.)
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You can thread text frames on a master, but only across a single spread. To automatically flow text across multiple
spreads, thread text frames on the document pages instead.
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Masters cannot contain sections for page numbering. Automatic page numbers inserted on a master display the
correct page number for each section of the document to which the master is applied.
See also
“Override or detach master items” on page 67
Create masters
You can create a new master from scratch or from an existing master page or spread. After you apply master pages
to other pages, any changes made to the source master carry forward to the masters and document pages that are
based on it. With careful planning, this provides an easy way to make layout changes to multiple pages across your
document.
For a video on working with master pages, see
See also
“Apply master pages” on page 65
“Base one master on another” on page 64
Create a master from scratch
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Choose New Master in the Pages panel menu.
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Specify the following options, and click OK:
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For Prefix, type a prefix that identifies the applied master for each page in the Pages panel. You can type as many
as four characters.
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For Name, type a name for the master spread.
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For Based on Master, choose an existing master spread on which you’ll base this master spread (see “Base one
master on another” on page 64), or choose None.
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For Number of Pages, type a value for the number of pages you want in the master spread (as many as ten).
Create a master from an existing page or spread
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Drag an entire spread from the Pages section of the Pages panel to the Masters section.
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Select a spread in the Pages panel and choose Save As Master from the Pages panel menu.