Applied Illustration: InDesign Software Workshop

SADDLE STITCH 

File - New Document 

PAGE SIZE 
is the actual size of a single page of your zine. 
Following commercial print technical specs. 
DO NOT scale to fit if you are using type, it will ruin it. ALWAYS use "actual size" 
Use appropriate size text size. 

COLUMNS 
Adding columns add guides to the page 
The easiest way to add columns of text 
You can change the gutter, spacing between the columns. 
If you add columns to the page they are just guides, they will not keep things there, they are a guide if you choose to use them. 

MARGINS 

You can set margins, they help to frame your content. 
Stops you going to the edge of the page. 
You can potentially print right up until the edge (why would you)

BLEED AND SLUG 

(click on little triangle to drop down). 
The bleed guide is the most important out of the two, It will compensate for any inaccuracies when you are trimming. 
Standard bleed amount is 3mm. That is where we extend anything that goes to the edge of the page. 

Slug is usually larger than the layout, it defines an area outside of your page that will actually print. The slug is used from crop marks, registration marks. Not as common to use this. 

PAGE AMOUNTS 

has to be a multiple of four and is an even number. 

FACING PAGE TEXTBOX 

is all about the saddle stitch book bind 
if you click facing pages it will be the right pages next to each other. "readers spreads" they appear the same way as they will be read. 

PAGE SIZE 

how are you going to print or produce your book? (inside college or outside college). 
As soon as you start working with Bleed and Slug you need to consider that. If you chose A4  then you would need to print on A2 so that there was room for the crop marks. 

SRA3 (oversized A3 is downstairs in the print studio, allows you to print full bleed and with crop marks). 

Think about what kind of stock you want, specialised stock means going to the print resource THINK ABOUT BOOKING. 

You could choose not to work with bleed. If you work with Margins then the bleed wouldn't be needed. A laser printer will never print right up to the edge of the page. 



File> Document Set Up 

Allows us to make some changes after initial set up. 

If we need to make a change to our Margins and Columns, you can click on the pages Palette. 

Click on first page and hold shift, click to any other page and it will select that range. 

With those selected we can go to layout > Margins and columns. 
This lets you add or detract those columns. 

Sometimes its useful to have a wider inside margin depending on the bind you are choosing, sometimes a bind can hide parts of your pages. 

CREATE GUIDES 

Layout > Create Guides 
This will do a similar thing like columns but it will also allow us to divide up a page into rows. Rows:6 Columns:3 select fit guides to margins.(18 cell) 
This lets us think of different way of arranging things. 

You can fit the guide to the page or the margins 
Margins : if making without bleed
Page : f you are working with bleed then you can divide up the whole page. 

Only adds per pagee 

View  - Guides and Grid (lock guide option)
if you add guides in this way then you can lock them and you won't accidentally move them,

MASTER PAGES 

in your pages palette, there are three pages. 
There is a readers spread default master page. 
Every page of your document is based on the "A" master page - this is the default. 

They work like any of your document pages. You can double click on A - Master page (you will know it is the master page because when you zoom out it is only two pages you see). 

You can change columns etc across the whole document. Make sure that both pages are selected. 

if that hasn't worked, select all your pages and then right click "apply master" and select Master A to all pages and usually that will work. 
Can use Master Page to add grids onto all. 

Anything on the master page is locked. Uneditable when you are adding other content. 

To remove a master page item - hold down command and shift and click. That should allow you to unlock that master page item and delete it or move it. 


Go to master page, create text box. 
Type > insert special character > markers > current page number 

this will allow you to show the page number on each of the document pages 

TYPE 

Type tool fill with placeholder text (helps you get a good idea of what it will look like) 
can get the text to sit however you want

If you make a type box and then change your tool to select tool there is a little white box at the bottom (just above the other). click that and then create another text box, then when you add text it should be connected to the other (see picture in diary). 

CONCERTINA BOOK 

Paper - consideration, you need a big specialised printer and print on a roll. 

be careful if you want content on the back, probably keep it single sided 
New > document 
working on two of our pages per indesign. (normally one page per indesign)  
(a4) 2 columns  
10mm for slug (only need on top and bottom). 10mm 
landscape 
6 pages (so 12 all together). 


if you un tick allow document pages to shuffle that means you can drop each of your pages next to the others and create that concertina 

IMAGE CONSIDERATIONS 

300ppi actual size, CYMK or greyscale save as tif or psd. Then use File > Place to put them in on indesign