O.B. wrote:
I’m looking for a way to preview my InDesign CS6 document horizontally
InDesign does not offer a way to view the pages horizontally in the document window. But the Pages panel can kind-of, sort-of offer what you want. The trick is to:
- Make your Pages panel huge (pull it out of the dock and fill the width of your screen if you want!)
- Choose Panel Options in the Pages panel menu and set the size of the page previews to Jumbo (the largest option).
- Set the Pages panel view options to Horizontal (in CS5.5 and earlier, that’s in the Panel Options dialog box; in CS6, as Cari pointed out, that’s in the Pages panel menu)
The result looks something like this:
Of course, you probably don’t want to leave your screen like this, because the Pages panel is taking up too much space. Fortunately, you can save it as a workspace (Window > Workspace > New Workspace). Then you can swap from your normal workspace to this one quickly and easily.
This article was last modified on December 21, 2021
This article was first published on December 19, 2012
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