Creating a New Document

When you create a new document in InDesign, you're actually specifying the final size and setup of the pages in the document.

1. Start InDesign.

2. Choose File ‚ New ‚ Document, or press z +N or Ctrl+N.

   The New Document dialog box appears (see Figure QS-2).

   
   Figure QS-2: Set up the page size and other attributes for your document in the New Document dialog box.

3. In the Page Size pop-up menu, choose Letter.

4. Check Facing Pages, because this is a magazine printed on two sides, thus needing both left- and right-page versions.

5. Check Master Text Frame.

6. Set the number of columns to 2, with a gutter width of 1p6 (0.25 in).

7. Set the margin guides at 4p6 (0.75 in) for the top and inside, 3p6 (0.583 in) for the bottom, and 3p (0.5 in) for the outside.

   Note that this copy of InDesign has been set with picas as the default measurement for vertical and horizontal measurement, one of two typical settings for publications . (The other is to set horizontal at picas and vertical measurements at inches.)

8. Click the Save Preset button, and give these specifications a name .

   The example uses ITW Case Studies . Assigning a name to these specifications lets you select these exact settings for future documents for this publication by choosing the preset name from the Document preset pop-up menu.

9. Click OK to create the new document's new layout.

   InDesign creates one 8 ‚ ½-by-11-inch page.

10. Choose File ‚ Save As, or press Shift+ z +S or Ctrl+Shift+S.

11. In the Save As field, type ITW Case Studies 2003.indd , as shown in Figure QS-3; choose a location for the file, then click Save.

    
    Figure QS-3: Use the Save As dialog box to name a new document.

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    For more information about creating a new document, see Chapter 4.