View and Pasteboard Controls


As you work, you may want to view your document in different ways. The four View modes provide different ways of looking at your document.

To choose the four View modes:

  • Click the Normal View Mode icon at the bottom of the Toolbox .

    Click the Normal View Mode icon to see all the elements of the document.

    • Normal View Mode is the default view and shows you all the guides in the document as well as the pasteboard, bleed, and slug areas .

      The Normal View Mode shows all the elements of the document.

      or

      Choose one of the view modes from the fly-out panel at the bottom of the Toolbox .

      Choose one of the view modes to see specific areas in a Preview Mode.

    • Preview Mode shows only the area inside the page boundaries. All guides are automatically hidden .

      The Preview Mode shows only the printing elements and hides the pasteboard.

    • Bleed Mode adds the area inside the bleed to the Preview Mode .

      The Bleed Mode shows only the printing elements and the bleed area.

    • Slug Mode adds the area inside the slug to the Preview Mode .

    The Slug Mode shows only the printing elements and the slug area.

When you switch to the Preview Mode the pasteboard is replaced by a colored background. The default color is gray; but you can change that to any color you like.

To change the Preview Background color:

1.

Choose Edit > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Win) or InDesign > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Mac) to open the Guides & Pasteboard Preferences.

2.

Use the Preview Background list to set the color for the background . This changes the color shown in the Preview Mode .

Use the Preview Background list to change the color of the pasteboard area shown in the Preview Mode.

A black background in the pasteboard area presents your work with a more dramatic appearance.

Tip

Restrain yourself from changing the color to something extremely intense. A vivid color around a document can change how colors on the page appear.

The area above and below the document is controlled by the Minimum Vertical Offset. You can make that area larger.

To change the Minimum Vertical Offset:

1.

Choose Edit > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Win) or InDesign > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Mac) to open the Guides & Pasteboard Preferences.

2.

Enter an amount in the Minimum Vertical Offset field . This increases the pasteboard above and below the page .

Use the Minimum Vertical Offset field to increase the size of the pasteboard above and below the document.

The effects of increasing the size of the Minimum Vertical Offset.

Tip

Some people who come to InDesign from other programs want to increase the vertical offset of the pasteboard to avoid problems when rotating objects so that they stick off the pasteboard. Their old program wouldn't let them rotate objects in that manner. Fortunately, InDesign lets you rotate objects outside the pasteboard.



InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows(c) Visual QuickStart Guide
InDesign CS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
ISBN: 0321573579
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 309
Authors: Sandee Cohen

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