Document creation

Before appearance of desktop publishing systems type-setters prepared documents for printing on mounting desktop, labeling edges of pages on the big sheets special pencils, and also specifying the locations of fields and columns and a method of cropping of pages. Such sheets named the dummy layout, it was used as a publication breadboard model.

Publications of program InDesign represent electronic breadboard models. As well as in a case with a paper variant of the dummy layout, it is necessary for you to set the sizes of pages, fields and width of columns. At your instruction there are expanded means of imposition of the publication.

Invaluable advantage is the knowledge of details of configuration of the publication even prior to the beginning of operation. For example, fulfilling the project half, you can find out that fields too big and the text does not find room in the space led out for it. Certainly, it is possible to change width of fields later, however to know about the exact sizes of fields before performance большей operation parts is better. Undoubtedly, editing of an electronic breadboard model occupies much less time, than change of the ready dummy layout.

At creation of the new document it is necessary to answer set of questions in dialog box Document Setup (document Parameters).

Creation of the new document

1. Execute commands File-> New-> Document (the File-> New-> the Document). On the screen there will be dialog box Document Setup (document Parameters) - fig. 2.1.
2. Enter an amount of pages of the document in the field Number of Pages (the Amount of pages).
3. Install flag Facing Pages (Turn) that the document consisted of even and odd pages. (More the detail information about a turn see in section «Job of parameters of page».)
4. Install flag Master Text Frame

Fig. 2.1. In dialog box Document Setup it is possible to adjust page key parameters

(Text the template frame) to facilitate automatic adding of the text on page. (In more details about pages-templates of the text frame the section «Operation with pages-templates» in chapter 10 see.)

5. For the job of a format of page use falling out menu Page Size (Format). (In more details about page formats see in following section.)
6. Install book or landscape orientation of page by means of buttons Orientation (Orientation). In more details about page orientation see in section «Job of parameters of page».
7. Install the size of page fields in fields of area Margins (Field). In more details about setting of the size of fields see in section «Job of parameters of page».
8. Set an amount of columns and width of a gap in fields Number (Amount) and Gutter (Srednik (the Interval)) areas Columns (Column). In more details about columns and среднике see in section «Change of parameters of page».
9. Push APPRX. the Document appears in a window (fig. 2.2).

Fig. 2.2. Each page of the document is allocated on mounting desktop where you can temporarily store the objects necessary for the further operation

Pages are surrounded by the area named mounting desktop. You can leave on it various objects which can be necessary for you later. The objects which are on mounting desktop, on the press are not deduced.