Akins Photojournalism

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Setting up InDesign to match the rough draft sheets

  • Open InDesign
  • Go to Edit > Preferences > Units and Incriments, and change the Horizontal and vertical units to picas
  • Go to File > New, and make a document with the following settings
  • Number of pages - 3
  • Colums - 3
  • Gutter - 1
  • Margins - Top -3, Inside - 1, Bottom- 5, Outside - 3
    Go to View > Grids and Guides, and Check "Show Document Grid"
  • Go to Edit > Preferences > Grids, and set the Horizontal and vertical settings (Gridline every and subdivisions) to 1
    Place your cursor in the upper left corner where the rullers come together, and click and drag the zero point to the top of the page at the gutter

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