InDesign How-To: Adding Custom Sizes to the Page Menu
Every designer has the need to create a custom page size every once in a while. But if you regularly need custom page sizes, it can be a pain to redefine the specs. InDesign has a nice feature that lets you add custom page sizes to the Page Size pop-up menu.
That means what was once a custom setting is now a preset available in your Document Setup dialog.
If you’re an InDesign user and you routinely make odd-size documents, then you’ll want to read this clever how-to, written by Adobe InDesign evangelist Tim Cole.
We’ve posted this feature as a PDF file. All you do is click the link “Adding Custom Page Sizes to the Page Size Menu” to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.
To open the PDF, you’ll need a full version of Adobe Acrobat (5 or higher) or the Adobe Reader, which you can download here:
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To learn how to configure your browser for viewing PDF files, see the Adobe Reader tech support page.
This article was last modified on March 10, 2025
This article was first published on March 5, 2004
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you can do the same thing from the dialog box, using the
‘custom’ setting, then saving it as a preset
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Customizing your software interface is always helpful, especially to streamline production. What I’d really like instruction on is customizing printer’s marks. According to the manual, this is possible, but it refers you to online help, and no search I’ve done in their on-computer help or their on-the-web help has found these instructions.