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An alternative approach to setting up the document

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An alternative approach to setting up the document

- [Narrator] In the previous movie, I set up the brochure as a two page document with eight panels. I would now like to show you an alternative approach which is going to be to set it up as an eight page document of two spreads. At the end of the day, the result is going to be the same. This is just a matter of preference, how you choose to go about this. Here's the screenshot that we got from the folding calculator. And we learned from this that the size of the largest panels is 3.57 inches. So I am going to create an eight page document at a height of eight and a half and a width of 3.57. And... I'll leave the margins as they were a quarter of an inch, the bleed and the slug. We can leave that as is, a one eighth of an inch for the bleed a half of an inch for the slug, just a single column in this case. I now need to come to my pages panel and make my eight pages into two, four page spreads. In order to be able…

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