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Introduction
This is what we will create in this episode, a printed A4 document with facing pages like a book, with 2 columns, margins 15mm, and bleed 3mm. Let's get started. Hello, welcome back to the complete Adobe InDesign series from Cerdas Inovasi Digital. Every InDesign project starts with the New Document dialog. The settings here determine the page size, number of pages, columns, margins, and bleed, so it's important to understand them before designing.
Step 1: New Document Dialog (Ctrl-N)
Press Ctrl-N or File, New, Document. The New Document dialog opens. Above there is a category, Print for printed documents, web and mobile for screens. Select Print, then click the preset A4. Width automatically set to 210mm and height 297mm with portrait orientation.
Step 2: Name, Pages, and Facing Pages
Name the document brochure cafe. Fill pages with 4. Make sure facing pages is checked so the pages are arranged facing like a book or magazine, with left and right pages. Primary text frame leave unchecked.
Step 3: Columns and Bleed
Fill columns 2 with column gutter 5mm, which is the space between columns. Then open the bleed and slug section and fill bleed 3mm. Bleed is the area outside the page for images or colors that reach the edge of the paper, so after cutting there will be no white lines.
Step 4: Margins and Columns
Click Margins and Columns. Fill top, bottom, inside, and outside margins 15mm. In a facing pages document, inside is the side near the spine and outside is the outer side. Click OK, the new document opens immediately. Notice the color of the lines.
Step 5: Reading the Guide Lines
The magenta line is the margin, the safe boundary for text. The purple line is the column guide. The red line outside the page is the bleed. You can see 4 pages in the Pages panel. Page 1 is alone on the right, then the spread of pages 2 and 3, and page 4 on the left. If you want to change it later, select Layout, Margins and Columns.
Step 6: Adjusting Margins and Columns
Change the number to 3 columns and then click OK. The column guides change immediately. Finally, save the document with Save As.
Done!
Done. We have created an A4 document with the print preset, facing pages, columns, and gutter, margin, and bleed, and understood the meaning of the guide line colors. In the next episode, we will learn navigation, zoom, hand tool, page navigation, and screen modes. Need a layout design for a magazine, book, brochure, product catalog, company profile, or annual report? Cerdas Inovasi Digital provides layout and print design services, as well as opens InDesign courses from beginner to advanced. Want to master the entire series, 104 episodes from the interface to magazine and book projects? All episodes, complete with PDF step-by-step guides, exercise files, and project files, are available for premium tutorial subscribers. Subscribe starting at Rp69.000 per month, save 28% with the 12-month package, or pay once Rp999.000 for lifetime access. Want just one class? Buy a single class with lifetime access. Subscribe now at the premium page cerdasinovasidigital.com Contact us via WhatsApp, or visit cerdasinovasidigital.com Thank you for watching, see you in the next episode.
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