From the course: Designing a Book
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Setting up the cover document - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Book
Setting up the cover document
- [Man] Okay, having created the interior of our book, let's now turn our attention to creating the cover, which we'll be assembling as a three page spread. Let's just take a look at the pages panel and you can see that we have three pages there, in a row. So, this is the finished version. I'm going to create this from scratch, command or control n. And here we have a new document. We want a three page document. We want it's size to be six inches by nine inches, and if I change my units to inches you can see that that is what we have. We do not want facing pages, nor do we want a primary text frame. Margins set to zero and I do want a bleed, we didn't have on the interior it wasn't necessary, but we are going to have elements that go to the edge of the page here. So my bleed, I've actually specified it in millimeters just because that is my habit. If I change to millimeters, you can see that I'm using a three millimeter bleed and I'm also, and this is optional really, I'm using a ten…
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