Placing graphics in a matter of placing previously created graphics (with few exceptions) generated by another application thru the Place facility under the File menu.
As with paragraph and character styles, you can create and apply object styles
And this is why you shouldn't do like the book says and have two linked text frames...
InDesign has several screen modes to review your work with:
InDesign Best Practices
We'll be covering these throughout the semester, but the book has a good list
- Start with Preflight
- Avoid stacking objects
- Thread text frames
- Use styles for all formatting
Change the Horizontal and Vertial setting to Inches in order to follow along with the lesson (if they aren't already set that way).
Click on New...
Settings:
Document Preset: Newsletter
Number of Pages: 8
Facing Pages: (checked on)
Page Size: Letter
Columns:
Number: 3 Gutter: 0.125 in (1/4 inch)
Margins: (turn off linked sizes first)
Top: 1.3125 in (1 5/16)
Bottom: 0.375 in (3/8)
Inside: .5 in (1/2)
Outside: .25 in (1/4)
Bleed: .125 in
Or as the book says, 0p9 picas
Make sure the linked icon is on
Now we'll use the Document Preset we just configured
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.
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Rows
Number: 4
Gutter: 0.125 in or 0p9
Columns
Number: 2
Gutter: 0 in
Preview
Options
Fit Guide to: Page •
If you don't hold down command/control then the guide will only be on one of the two pages. If you hold down the shift key while you drag, the guide will snap to 1/8 increments, making it easy to hit .5 inches.
Also tweak with the X input box in the control panel if necessary
A long standing tradition names the right and left pages of a spread with latin “recto” and “ verso.” It goes back to medieval times when monks in monasteries penned bibles by hand.
“Em Space” and “En Space” comes from the metal slug spacers used in hand-set typography. They are theoretically the width of the letters “M” and “N” in that particular font at that particular size. In actuality, an Em space is the same width as the font size, so a 72 point font will have an Em space that's 72 points wide. An En space is half the width of an Em space, 36pt.
Inset Spacing
(Turn off link)
Left: 0p9 (.125in)
Right 0p9 (.125in)
Vertical Justification
Align: Center
Control point set to Center-Left
X: 0.25
Y: 0.625
W: 7.75
H: 0.3125
Set the Paragraph alignment to Right Aligned in the Control Panel
This is not the way I would do it. What happens when you have a two digit page number? The heading "GARDEN NEWS" will move, when it should stay in the same place. I'd use tabs to keep the page number and heading in consistent positions, but we haven't gotten into tabs yet, so maybe later.
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
Garden Newsto
Urban Garden Oasis
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
NOTE: Cyan color is for indication of the rect's position. InDesign won't look like this.
You can create multiple Master/Parent Pages within a document (in fact, that's kind of the whole point to a Master/Parent Page). You can build them independently or base one Master/Parent Page on another Master/Parent Page. If you base a Master/Parent Page on another master, it's called a parent/child relationship, with the first Master/Parent Page as the parent and the subsequent Master/Parent Page the child. Any change made to the parent master is automatically applied to the child master.
Aindicates that B is a child of A
You might have to extend the height of the Master portion of the Pages panel
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 Master/Parent Page are needed. Overriding a Master Frame object requires a special UI gesture to unlock it.
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
Green-Brighestfrom the Swatches panel
By default, the A Master/Parent Page was been applied to all the pages in the document when you specified the number of pages. You can apply any Master/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 way the cursor changes when you are over the 4-5 page icon. It's quite tricky to get the right gesture. Getting it wrong drops the Master/Parent Page onto only one of the two pages in the spread.
You'll know when it's been properly applied with you see the B in the outside upper corners of both pages
Notice the page numbers are correctly displayed!
Apply Master to Pages...from the Pages panel flyout menu
Result
Let's add 6 pages to this doc
Insert Pagesfrom the Pages panel flyout menu
Pages: 6
Insert: After Page 4
Master: [None]
Result
It's basically drag and drop
The trick is to drop it just to the right of the center line of pages 10/11
You should see this icon to indicate that the current page 11 will be moved forward and the old page 12 will be dropped where page 11 was
Result
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.
This will select pages 5 thru 8
W: 7.5 in
H: 10.5 in7
Don't forget to set the registration point back to upper left
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.
It should read 2.1667 in
It should read 2.5 in
Demo the ability of InDesign to keep track of page number across documents and sections within a document
• Start Page Numbering at: 1
Style: i, ii, iii, iv...
vand open the menu again...
• Start Page Numbering at: 5
Style: 1,2,3,4...
This is actually bad practice. What happens if you add a page or two between pages 1- 4. 5
will now be the wrong number. It's better to use
• Automatic Page Numbering,
which does the right thing.
03_Newsletter.indd
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
- Open the Doument Setup dialog and choose
Adjust Layout...
Page Size: A4
- Try it again with Tabloid size, and set Adjust Font Size checkbox on
Page Size: A4
Adjust Font Size (checked on)- Results
Letter
A4
Tabloid
If we haven't already done so, save the work we've done so far (not 03_end.indd
) as 03_Newsletter.indd
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 Master/Parent Page
This loads up the cursor with multiple, placeable, objects. Each click and release places the first object in the stack and moves to the next one.
You can see a little (4) showing there's 4 objects loaded into the cursor...
Again, this ain't how it's done in the real world. Snippets should be used for content that gets used multiple times across multiple documents and projects
The headers at the top of the page for the two Master/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.
Bees and Bugson page 2 and
Gardening Tipson page 3
[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.
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.
The strawberry image stops at the edge of the paper. Just stretch out the crop frame to the bleed line fix it
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)
Normal View
Preview View
Notice that the bleed content and the guides have disappeared.
Rotating Spreads
Skip this, too much of an
edge condition, as they say in tech support and QA circles.