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Document Preset
Intent
Number of pages
Start Page #
Facing Pages
Master Text Frame
Primary Text Frame
Page Size
Orientation
Bleed
Slug
4. Click OK to open a new document with the settings you specified.
The layout grid is for layout purposes only. To add text to your document, add frame grids or text frames.
Create a new document with margins and columns
When creating a document with Western style workflow, use Margins and Columns. If the general layout settings such as margins and number of
columns in a document are already known, use the Margins and Columns dialog box as the simplest method.
1. Choose File > New > Document.
2. Specify options using the New Document dialog box. Each option is the same as when creating a document using a layout grid.
3. Click Margins and Columns and select your options using the New Margins and Columns dialog box. The options are the same as in the
Margins and Columns dialog box. (See Change document setup, margins, and columns.)
4. Click OK.
Even when a document has been created using Margins and Columns, you can view its layout grid by choosing View > Grids & Guides > Show
Layout Grid, and you can modify the layout grid settings by choosing Layout > Layout Grid.
To set the default settings for all new documents, choose File > Document Setup, Layout > Margins and Columns, or Layout > Layout Grid
Settings, and set options when no documents are open.
New Document options
Choose a preset that you have saver earlier.
If you are creating a document to be output to PDF or SWF for the web, choosing the Web option changes several options in the dialog
box, such as turning off Facing Pages, changing the orientation from portrait to landscape, and using a page size based on monitor resolution. You
can edit any of these settings, but you cannot change the Intent setting after the document is created.
CS6: Digital publishing intent has been added for publications aimed for the Digital Publishing Suite.
Specify the number of pages to create in the new document.
Specify which number the document starts on. If you specify an even number (such as 2) with Facing Pages selected, the first
spread in the document begins with a two-page spread. See Start a document with a two-page spread.
Select this option to make left and right pages face each other in a double-page spread, such as for books and magazines.
Deselect this option to let each page stand alone, such as when you’re printing flyers or posters or when you want objects to bleed in the binding.
After you’ve created a document, you can use the Pages panel to create spreads with more than two pages or force the first two pages to open as
a spread. (See Control spread pagination.)
CS5.5 and earlier: Select this option to create a text frame the size of the area within the margin guides, matching the column
settings you specified. The master text frame is added to the A-Master. (See Using text frames on master pages.)
The Master Text Frame option is available only when you’ve chosen File > New > Document.
CS6 only: select this option to add a primary text frame on the master page. When you apply a new master page, the story
in the primary text frame automatically flows into the primary text frame of the new master page.
Choose a page size from the menu, or type values for Width and Height. Page size represents the final size you want after bleeds or
other marks outside the page are trimmed.
Click Portrait
(tall) or Landscape (wide). These icons interact dynamically with the dimensions you enter in Page Size. When
Height is the larger value, the portrait icon is selected. When Width is the larger value, the landscape icon is selected. Clicking the deselected icon
switches the Height and Width values.
Tip: To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options in the New Document dialog box. To make the bleed or slug areas
extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings The Same icon
.
The Bleed area allows you to print objects that are arranged at the outer edge of the defined page size. For a page of the required
dimensions, if an object is positioned at its edge, some white may appear at the edge of the printed area due to slight misalignment during printing
or trimming. For this reason, you should position an object that is at the edge of the page of the required dimensions a little beyond the edge, and
trim after printing. Bleed area is shown by a red line on the document. You can set bleed area settings from Bleed in the Print dialog box.
The slug area is discarded when the document is trimmed to its final page size. The slug area holds printing information, customized color
bar information, or displays other instructions and descriptions for other information in the document. Objects (including text frames) positioned in
the slug area are printed but will disappear when the document is trimmed to its final page size.
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