The gutter also depends on binding method and amount of pages. You donвЂ™t want the gutter to be close or you wonвЂ™t be able to see the words/pictures properly in the book.

GutterВ is the space between pages in the book. Both you should be familiar with if you have used Word before.Д¬olumnsВ again should be intuitive if you used word or any Microsoft program. Orientation, there are two options portrait or landscape. If you want custom size you just ignore the page size and go to widthВ and height.В Input the specifications. These are default pre sets for common printing. You are telling the program what size you want your document to be. Page Size:В Self Explanatory and intuitive if you used Microsoft Word before. But when you choose the option the Pages panel will appear like this: But for me I havenвЂ™t had a chance to really use this function and donвЂ™t find it necessary. But for completeness, the master text frame is used in the same manner as Master Pages ( See Tutorial Here). The box next to it is Master Text Frame, you probably wonвЂ™t need to use this feature. If you click Facing Pages, you will have this set up. If you unclick it, it will appear as this. Facing pages determines the orientation of the pages panel. The box next to it where it says facing pages. Number of Pages:В How many pages is this thing going to have? Self explanatory. Intent:В Just as it says, what is your intention for this document? The options are as followed. The button Save preset to your right will allow you to do this. You do this after you enter all the information you want about the document. You can make your own presets if you feel you are going to use the same settings. IвЂ™ll go through them one by one.Дocument preset, right now it is set to Default which as the name entails is what the factory preset are. When you click new document you get this window: Document, Book, and Library.Дocument is for a single file, Book is when for example you have multiple chapter in one document and Library for now we will ignore. The Create New, on the right side has three options.

When you first open the program you are faced with this window. Setting up your job is an important part of Indesign.

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