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The InDesign workspace
Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom
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3 Choose Window > Workspace > Reset Typography to reset the InDesign panels to their
default positions for the Typography workspace. This ensures that your panels are in
position, making them easier to locate during this lesson.
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A. The document window. B. The page border (black lines). C. Bleed guides. D. Margin guides. E. Column guides.
F. The pasteboard.
Using guides
Non-printing guides help you align content on your page and create an organized layout.
Margin guides de ne the space around the edge of your document—a space you generally
want to keep free from objects. White space around the edge of your documents creates good
design, and also eliminates the risk of content being cut o if your document is printed and
trimmed to a speci c size at a printing plant. Margin guides are displayed in magenta by default,
immediately inside the page border. By default they display one-half inch inside of the page
edge, but can be adjusted as you will learn in Lesson 2, “Building Documents with Master
Pages.”
Individual page guides can also be added manually by dragging them from the rulers onto the
page. Both page guides and margin guides are useful, but they can also be distracting when you
want to see the elements of your page design. In this case, you can hide the guides.
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