Chapter 3: Setting Up A Document And Working With Page

Lesson03.zip

Creating and Saving Custom Document Settings

Creating a new document

Now we'll use the Document Preset we just configured

Apply Blank Page
Apply Parent Page (A)
Current page
Parent Page letter applied to the page
Center line (spine)
Odd pages right of spine
Even pages right of spine

About Page Numbering

It's all about the spine. In any multi-page layout, the physical numbering of the pages will start with the first page to the right of the spine. Therefore, odd pages (1,3,5...) will fall to the right of the spine and even pages (2,4,6...) to the left. However, not all multipage layouts start on the first physical page—that might be the cover page, with next page (physical page 2) labeled as page 1. The Pages panel will display the physical page number.

2 3
2
7
4
5

Working with Parent Pages

Parent Pages vs Pages

Adding guides to the Parent Page

Dragging Guides from rulers

Also tweak with the X input box in the control panel if necessary

Creating a text frame on the Parent Page

Next, let's add a footer by drag-duplicating the header down to the bottom. Weird, but that's what the book wants us to do.

SEQUENCE MATTERS

  1. Switch to Selection Tool (V)
  2. Click-release on left text frame
  3. Shift-Click-release on right text frame (this selects both text frames)
  4. Option-Click-hold on the selected frames
  5. Hold down the shift key and drag the frames to the bottom
  6. Let the frames snap to the center of the bottom margin guide
  7. Release
  • With the Select tool set the vertical alignment to Bottom in the Control Panel
  • Set the font to Myriad Pro, Regular, 10pt, and use Menu > Type > Change Case > Title Case
  • Then change the text from Garden News to Urban Garden Oasis

    • GOT TO HERE Feb. 15

    Renaming the Parent Page

    Good labeling is a really useful skill. It will save you time later on when the inevitable changes come in at the last minute. And it's just a Best Practice* technique.

    * A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to any alternatives because it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means or because it has become a standard way of doing things

    Adding Placeholder Frames for Text

    Adding placeholder frames for graphics

    Creating an additional Parent Page

    You can create multiple Parent Pages within a document (in fact, that's kind of the whole point to a Parent Page). You can build them independently or base one Parent Page on another Parent Page. If you base a Parent Page on another master, it's called a parent/child relationship, with the first Parent Page as the parent and the subsequent Parent Page the child. Any change made to the parent master is automatically applied to the child master.

    Overriding Master Items

    The document pages that will use the two-column layout do not require placeholder frame, which means that only the footer text frames and ruler guides from the A parent Parent Page are needed. Overriding a Master Frame object requires a special UI gesture to unlock it.

    Modifying a Parent Master

    We'll add some stuff to the header of A-3-column Layout and see what it does to B-2-column Layout. We'll also take advantage of InDesign's snippets, which allow you to create a group of objects that can be quickly imported to several masters or documents

    Applying Parent Pages To Document Pages

    By default, the A Parent Page was been applied to all the pages in the document when you specified the number of pages. You can apply any Parent Page to a Page page by drag and dropping it onto the page in the Page panel. You can also apply a no Master or [none] Master type to a page the same way.

    Notice the page numbers are correctly displayed!

    Adding New Document Pages

    Let's add 6 pages to this doc

    Rearranging and Deleting Document Pages

    It's basically drag and drop

    Changing the Size of Pages Within One InDesign File

    This is a really rare case, in fact, I don't think anyone would do it this way. It would require a printer to take your file and turn it into two separate documents, meant to be printed on seperate printer setups. It might be handy for presenting to a client, though, but I think it would work just as well with two docs, even for presenting to a client. If we're short on time, let's skip this. (Lesson03_page_modded.zip)

    Using the Measure Tool

    Just a demo of what it does, and guess what? It measures stuff! The point here is to show that the resized pages have automatically resized the columns (and everything else) proportionately, so a 2.5 in column becomes a 2.1667 column.

    Adding Sections to Change Page Numbers

    Demo the ability of InDesign to keep track of page number across documents and sections within a document

    Adjust Layout

    New feature in CC 2019. Not a usual condition, but it can happen that you need to redo the entire document at a different size. Do this with the file 03_end.indd

    Letter

    A4

    Tabloid

    Break?

    Overriding Parent Page Items and Placing Text and Graphics

    Working with what we have so far, save it as 03_Newsletter.indd. Here we'll add some content to the actual pages using the established guides, header and footers, and placholder frames from the A-3-column Layout Parent Page

    Replacing Placeholder Text

    The headers at the top of the page for the two Parent Pages has placeholder text set to a specific font and style. It's been named with the self-descriptive [Placeholder Text]. If you just click on it, you can't select or edit it. It requires the special gesture of Shift+Command/Control click to free it up.

    Printing to the Edge of the Paper: Using the Bleed Guides

    [Quote from our text] A very important concept to keep in mind when setting up a document is whether any elements will print all the way to the edge of the paper. If so, you need to account for how that is accomplished in commercial printing. The bleed guides that we set up in the newletter template are there to enable you to do that.

    In commercial printing, pages are printed on large peper, and pages are arranged to fold correctly on bindery machines, rather than on single sheets as on an office printer. For example, the pages could be 2-up on a small digital press, or 8-up on a ty[p[ical large offset press. Throughout the printing process, tolerances are built in to alow for slight variations, and one of theose tolerances is bleed.

    Bleed line
    Trim Line / Paper Edge
    Margin line

    Sheets of printed material are cut while in lage stacks, and even with a very sharp industrial blade, it's impossible to cut exactly to the edge of an image hundreds or even thousands of times. So to get a perfect edge every time while allowing for the mechanics of cutting paper in stacks, any artwork that will print to the edge must acutally extend past where the blade will cut the printed sheet.

    Diagram of a press sheet. Red is the bleed area and is trimmed off.

    Therefore, to create a finished piece with photos or other elements that print right to the edge of the page, you actually must extend those items in the InDesign file past where the blade will cut the sheet to the final size. That produces a clean edge because the blade cuts through the printed image, not unprinted paper.

    Here, we'll check that items extend sufficiently beyond the page edge, and fix them if they don't.

    Viewing the Completed Spread

    How to get rid of all those margin and guide lines to see how the document will look when printed (but short of the Client Presentation oriented Presentation mode)

    Rotating Spreads

    Skip this, too much of an edge condition, as they say in tech support and QA circles.

    CHAPTER 3
    Review Questions

    1. What are the advantages of adding objects to Parent Pages?
    2. How do you change the page-numbering scheme within a document?
    3. How do you select a Parent Page item on a document page?
    4. What's the advantage of basing a new Parent Page on an existing Parent Page?
    5. How do you override a Parent Page item?
    6. How do you handle items that print to the edge of a paper?