Templates

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A template is built exactly the way a default page, covered in the previous paragraphs, is. The only difference is that you don't save these pages in the English folder, and, unless you want to, you don't choose them as a new document page. Instead, save templates in job folders for easy access in starting jobs. You should think of the file as a type of master page, only you don't have to go through the Library to reach it. Just double-click the template file in its folder, and your entire page is ready to go, with text blocks, logos, fold lines, die cut patterns — anything the job requires — already in place and ready to manipulate. Objects are grouped or ungrouped as you see fit, and they're on layers you have chosen. You don't have to release the page from a master page, and it's an efficient way to work.

The file is titled, "Untitled," until you save it the first time. That's one of the beauties of working with templates; you never make changes to the original document. You change only a copy of the original. If a global change must be made, you have to make a new template. On the other hand, if you have been working on a number of jobs with common elements, a master page arrangement could allow you to make global changes by changing the master page. All the child pages would reflect the change. Template pages can contain master pages as well, so there's a lot of flexibility to work with here.

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