InDesign will drop in a page number marker, which is marked out as an A on your A-Master. Go to Type > Insert Special Character > Markers > Current Page Number. Position this in the bottom left corner of the left-hand page and type page (space). Select the Type Tool (T) from the T ools Panel (Window > Tools, if not already visible), and drag to create a small text frame. Let’s add some Page Numbers to our Master, to keep the reader orientated in your magazine. Drag a second to X-position 397.4 mm, so it sits on the far-side of the right-hand page. Repeat for the right-hand page.ĭrag another guide, this time from the left-hand ruler, to X position 9 mm. Drag the first guide to Y position 267 mm on the left-hand page of the spread. Repeat for the right-hand page.ĭrag a second guide from the top ruler to Y position 9 mm on the left-hand page. You can manually enter a position in the text box here to create a precisely placed guide. This indicates the position of the guide on the page. At the top-left of the screen you’ll notice an X or Y counter appears as you drag the guide.
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UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS: 50 Million+ Fonts & Design Assets DOWNLOAD NOWįrom the Top Ruler, click and drag a Guide downwards towards the bottom of the left-hand page. Now we can begin adding features to the Master like Page Numbers and any other decorative background content we’d like to appear consistently across a number of pages. You can see this due to the appearance of a small A icon at the top corner of each page in the Pages Panel.ĭouble-click the A-Master icon (the image of the two facing pages at the top of the Pages Panel) to bring it up on screen. By default, InDesign has applied the Master already to all pages in your document. Any content you place on this Master spread will appear on all pages with the A-Master applied to them. This consists of a two-page facing spread. In the Pages Panel (go to Window > Pages to open) you’ll see that at the top of the panel InDesign has already created a default A-Master for you. Set the Bleed to: Top 3 mm, Bottom 3 mm, Inside 0 mm, Outside 3 mm. You won’t need a Bleed on the Inside edge. Set the Margins to: Top 17 mm, Bottom 20 mm, Inside 17 mm, Outside 14 mm.
This will create a basic grid framework for arranging text columns. Moving down to the Columns section, set the Number of columns to 4. Click Add, then OK.īack in the New Document window, keep the Orientation as the default selection, Portrait. Set the Width to 203.2 mm and the Height to 276.22 mm. As we’ll be using a standard size in this tutorial, which is used by a number of commercial publishers, including Condé Nast, a suitable name might be Magazine Conde Nast. to 16 and keep Facing Pages checked.įrom the Page Size drop-down menu select Custom… In the Custom Page Size window type a Name for your custom page size. We’ll set up the whole magazine, although in this two-part tutorial we’ll be working on just one spread. In the New Document window, set the Intent to Print from the drop-down menu. (To familiarise yourself with the New Document Window refer to this Bitesize Skill) From the Welcome Window, select Document from the Create New list.
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