Commercial print means when you send a document to someone and it is sent for mass printing.
InDesign can work in multiple page documents.
You can make three types of documents in InDesign: book, library or document. We opened document.
When you choose the book option, it is designed for when you have hundreds of pages, a contents and an index, with many different chapters.
In the New Document window you can choose the different page numbers you would like, and different pages sizes.
Legal, Letter and Tabloid are the American equivalent to our A4, A3 etc system.
If you are doing a magazine or newspaper, the Columns option allows you to create guides.
The gutter is the space between the columns.
If the content will be framed by white space, the Margins option will allow you to choose what size you want, and create guides.
At the college if we wanted to create an A5 booklet, we would have to print it on A4, and if we wanted to create an A4 piece, it would have to be printed on A3, because the printer can never reach to the edges. It then has to be trimmed down, but it can leave a white edge if you don't trim it 100%.
This means you need a bleed, meaning whatever is at the edge of a page on your document, you would need it to extend further, so that it will 'bleed' over the page.
In the commercial print process, an industrial guillotine does the trimming.
A 3mm bleed guide is what we are going to use today.
The slug area is larger than the bleed area, and is used to contain the printer marks like bleed marks, registration marks and sometimes the cmyk squares.
The slug option is useful when doing a fold out panel leaflet, because it can mark where you need to fold.
If the finished format is a book or booklet format, then the Facing Pages option should be checked.
Then we clicked OK.
The black line is the edge of the page.
The pink and purple line is the page margins, so if you keep inside of that you will have a white border surrounding it.
The red line is the bleed, so if your document reaches the end of the black line, you should extend it to that line.
Each page you have appears in the Pages palette, and a little thumbnail appears.
You can add pages from using the Insert Pages option, and choose how many pages you want to add. It makes viewing each page easier, as you don't have to scroll.
This is a facing pages document.
We can create guides more accurately, and even change the spacing of the gutter.
When adding content we need to use frames - s0 text frames and image frames.
An incredibly useful tool is to go onto Type > Fill with Placeholder Text and it fills the frame with text so you know how it will look like without having the copy.
A way of putting text into frames is to create a frame, and go on File > Place and choose the file that you want.
The little red square means that the frame isn't big enough to hold all the text.
By clicking the red square, it creates another frame with the rest of the text in, and adjusting these frames allows the text to move from one frame to another.
When we are preparing for images to go into InDesign we need to consider:
Photoshop
1. We need to make sure that the file format is correct. Use either .tiff or .psd files, and not jpegs.
2. 300 dpi
3. Colour mode has to be CMYK, greyscale is also fine
4. When making images, make them the actual size before we put them into InDesign
Illustrator
1. Save it as a .ai file
2. You can resize Illustrator artwork because you don't have to worry about resolution
3. CMYK
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