InDesign Page Setup Basics

Open a new document: File > New > Document. Now have a look at your New Document window. The first thing you see is the Document Preset section. Did you see that? Good. Ignore it because we will cover it shortly.

Look at the rest of the window. Everything is pretty much straight forward. You will see that in Page Size you have several page settings (letter, legal, tabloid, etc.) You can choose the size of your page from that menu or you can enter a custom size yourself. If you want to know what the word gutter in the Columns section means, go to the About Desktop Publishing Glossary entry for gutter.

You will probably also wonder what the Master Text Frame option is. First of all you need to understand what a Master Page is. A master page is a special page which will not print, unless you tell InDesign to do so. It's a page where you can set a basic layout and then all of the other pages that you will add to your document and which are based on that master page will look the same.

You can add or take off items from any page that is based on your master page and you can have more than one master page. We will have a look at the master pages a bit more in-depth in another lesson. Right now you just need to know what they are.

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InDesign Page Setup Basics

All objects placed on the page or the pasteboard in a desktop publishing software application have a sometimes invisible bounding box or frame around the object - frames designed to hold text are called text frames

So let's get back to our New Document window. If you check the Master Text Frame option, you will have a text frame (or text box) on your master page. This frame will have the column and margin attributes specified in the New Document window.

For more on text frames, see What is a text frame and how is it used in desktop publishing software?

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InDesign Page Setup Basics

Open a new document: File > New > Document. Now have a look at your New Document window. The first thing you see is the Document Preset section. Did you see that? Good. Ignore it because we will cover it shortly.

Look at the rest of the window. Everything is pretty much straight forward. You will see that in Page Size you have several page settings (letter, legal, tabloid, etc.) You can choose the size of your page from that menu or you can enter a custom size yourself. If you want to know what the word gutter in the Columns section means, go to the About Desktop Publishing Glossary entry for gutter.

You will probably also wonder what the Master Text Frame option is. First of all you need to understand what a Master Page is. A master page is a special page which will not print, unless you tell InDesign to do so. It's a page where you can set a basic layout and then all of the other pages that you will add to your document and which are based on that master page will look the same.

You can add or take off items from any page that is based on your master page and you can have more than one master page. We will have a look at the master pages a bit more in-depth in another lesson. Right now you just need to know what they are.

View the original article here