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1. Skills
Development
Making sure that the
Indesign document was set
up correctly was crucial to
creating a successful
product. The means the
page must have the right
margins, columns and other
factors to make it look
right.
Setting up an InDesign
document

2. When opening up a new InDesign document, you
will be presented with this window. This gives
you the control to edit the structure of the page,
which ultimately controls how the final product
will look. It is important to know how you want
the document to look before you begin your
construction, as it is much more difficult to
change the layout of the document after you
have started working on it.
The first box controls the number of pages, and
the size of those pages. It is important to make
sure that the image is in A3, as it will give you
more room to work with. Do not edit the width or
height unless you want a custom size. Also, for
this project, make sure that the orientation is
portrait, as this is the standard rotation for
magazines.
The second because controls the number of
columns on each page. Bare in mind that these
are only guidelines, and do not actually decide
where the text can be placed. The gutter
changes the distance between the columns so
they are not connected to each other.

3. The third box controls the margins. These
change the size of the actual box which you
are supposed to work in. Once again, these
are only guidelines and you can go outside of
the box if you choose to. So, the bigger the
margins, the smaller the working box.
The final is box is hidden in a drop down box.
This contains controls to the bleed and slug.
These are rarely used, and can sometimes be
difficult to get right. The bleed controls the
size of a border outside of the page. This is
to change the size of how much of the page
will be printed. This to make sure that there
is no white border on the page when it is
printed. The slug also controls how much of
the page will be printed, but this instead adds
white border to the page.