From the course: Designing a Brochure
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Setting up the brochure document - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Brochure
Setting up the brochure document
- [Instructor] Okay, let's set up our InDesign document. Command or control+N to create a new document. I'll come to the print presets, legal, change the unit to inches, orientation to wide, turn off facing pages and specify two pages. I'll come next to the margins. I would like to have a quarter inch margin on all four sides and then to the columns. I'm going to have four, each column functioning as a panel. The column gutter or space between will function as the margins between those panels. So, for that reason, I want it to be twice the value of the margin or a half inch. Coming next to bleed and slug because I intend to print to the edge of the page. I want a 1/8 of an inch bleed and because I intend to put fold marks outside of the page, I also want a slug area of half an inch on all four sides. Next, I am going to place that screenshot that I took from the folding calculator and since I want this to…
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