Erik wrote:
For most jobs the current page/spreads setup in CS2 works fine, but I am currently designing a brochure that opens like an airline ticket cover (or many landscape-style greeting cards) – up and down, not left to right!
Is there a way to create the pages in doc setup to achieve this. As designers we all want to design for reading pairs, its how the pages will look in reality, so this has me stumped. I could setup my pages in the typical way and rotate my artwork 90 degrees, but this is a most uncomfortable way to work and I don’t have one of those old Radius monitors that could rotate.
Well, Erik, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that you’re not alone; this is a question that comes up at almost every InDesign Conference. That’s good news because you’re going to need someone to commiserate with at the local pub when you hear the bad news: There just isn’t any good way to make InDesign display facing pages vertically rather than horizontally.
In general, if you need to lay out a greeting card or a matchbook or a calendar or something else that folds in this direction, you should probably lay out the whole thing on a single page. Just put a guide down the middle of the page for visual feedback. (Don’t forget you can add a horizontal guide, then jump to the Control palette and type the page height divided by 2 to place the guide perfectly. For example, type “17/2” to place the guide halfway down a 17-inch page.)
Then, if you need to print each page separately, you’ll have to either use Manual Tiling (by adjusting the zero point of the rulers) or Cut and Paste the proper objects onto a proper-sized page.
Alternately, you could hire an intern to stand and hold your monitor sideways while you work.
Anyone have any other clever techniques you use in these situations?
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on June 22, 2006
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