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[Adobe InDesign CS5, Multiple Page Sizes]
[Michael Ninness, Group Project Manager]
One of the most long-requested feature requests for InDesign
is to add the ability to create documents
with mixed page sizes in the same document.
So I'm going to walk you through what that's like now in InDesign CS5.
I'm going to create a new document.
We'll come back to this magazine cover in just a moment.
We're going to create a new document, though.
I'm going to turn off the facing pages just for
purposes of showing you this new feature.
I'm going to add six pages to this document
and we'll make the orientation tall.
Go ahead and click okay.
And on our pages panel you'll see we have six pages all the same size.
I'm going to add a new master page to this document.
And we'll just right-click on that existing master page
in the pages panel and choose new master.
We'll just call it master B.
Go ahead and click okay.
And then at the bottom of the pages panel, the first evidence of this new
mixed or multiple page sizes feature is there is a new drop-down
menu at the bottom of the pages panel where you can quickly choose
a new page size for your selected page.
These are some pre-set sizes for page sizes that you might use often.
I'm going to go ahead and change this to 800x600.
That's a pixel measurement there, and you can see that the master
page now has changed to a wide orientation.
I'm going to go ahead and apply that B master page to other pages in the documents,
so page two, page four, and page six.
And as you see, as I drag that master page--the B master page--
on top of other pages, they automatically change their page sizes.
If I go back to page one by double-clicking and zooming out
so you can see all the pages at once,
you can see every other page now is a mixed size.
I can also customize each page size outside of applying a master page to it.
If I go ahead and select that page in the pages panel,
I can switch to a new page tool.
It's in the tool panel. There's a new icon for it.
If I click on any page, you'll see that it highlights.
And once I select a page in the layout view,
the control panel now becomes available for me
to edit that actual page size.
You'll see I still have those preset lists up here in a drop-down menu as well,
or I can actually use the control panel controls to
size and position these pages, as well.
I can choose where I want the resizing to happen from.
So we can be from the center or the upper left-hand corner
or whatever proxy point you want.
I'm just going to go ahead and make this half as wide
by putting a divide symbol there and typing in 'two' in the width,
hitting return, and you'll see I've customized that one page.
Now, if I go back and change the size of the B master page--
I'll go ahead and double-click on the B master to
do that and we'll go ahead and select that page.
And, again, we'll use the control panel.
I'm going to change this to a tabloid page,
and you'll see that every page that was using the B master page
has now changed to tabloid, except page two.
Page two is still that custom page size because
we did a local override on that specific page.
If I want, I can keep that or I can actually just drag the B master
onto page two again.
And when I do that it gives me an opportunity to resynchronize
that page to its original master page size.
So now they're back to the way they were.
Let's go back to that magazine cover
and show more of a real-world, practical use of this feature.
What we want to do on this magazine is add a slight gatefold on the cover.
We want a little flap that will be a
slightly wider cover that will be on the inside and the outside of that magazine cover.
So to do that let's go ahead and get out of preview mode by pressing the letter W,
and we're going to go to our pages panel and we're going to add
a new page to this document.
One page selected, click the new page button,
and that will insert a new page.
And what we want to do is go to our pages panel,
and from the fly out menu choose 'Allow Document Pages to Shuffle.'
This allows us to move pages around from spread to spread
and attach them to create a gatefold layout.
So I'm moving that new blank page
over to the right of the cover page here,
and we'll go back to the spread for page one and two.
With our page tools still chosen and active,
I'm going to select that new page.
I'm going to go to the control panel and make the width of that new page
18 picas from the upper left-hand corner,
and you'll see that page now resizes to be that flap width that we're looking for.
At this point, I can get my selection tool
and I'm going to go ahead and select the content that
I want to extend onto the flap
I'm going to go ahead and click on the models
and just drag that bounding box over to the right
to extend that content to the flap page.
And then we'll select the skyline background graphic via the
new layers panel and we'll target that particular object as selected
and we'll just expand that, as well.
So, there you can see just a kind of a real quick way to use this feature
to create a custom gatefold on a magazine cover.
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