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Understanding Document Presets

If you frequently define the same new-document settings, You can also access and manage your document presets in
you can click the Save Document Preset button to save those the File>Document Presets submenu . Choosing one of the
choices as a preset so you can create the same document existing presets in the menu
settings with minimal repetition . You can access your user- opens the legacy New
defined presets in the Saved pane of the New Document Document dialog box, which
dialog box . defaults to the values in the preset that you called .
Click the Save Document Choosing Define in the Document Presets submenu opens a
Preset button...
dialog box that lists the existing presets .
...then type here to define a
name for the custom preset. • Click New to open the
New Document Preset
dialog box, which is
basically the same as the
New Document dialog
box, except the Preset
menu is replaced with a
field where you type the
preset name instead of clicking the Save Preset button .
Click here to access
saved presets. • Select a preset and click Edit to change the preset’s
associated options .
• Select a preset and click Delete to remove the preset from
the application .
• Click Load to import presets from another computer .
• Click Save to save a preset (with the extension “ .dcst”) so
it can be sent to and used on another computer .

Create Ruler Guides

In addition to the margin and bleed guides you defined when you created the Note:
document, you can also place ruler guides to mark whatever other positions you
need to identify in your layout. You can change the
The live area is the “safe” area inside the page edge where important design default units of mea-
elements should reside. Because printing and trimming are mechanical processes, surement for a file in
there will always be some variation, however slight. Elements placed too close to the Units & Increments
the page edge run the risk of being accidentally trimmed off. The printer for this pane of the Prefer-
job recommended a 1/4″ live-area margin. You defined the margins for this file to ences dialog box or by
describe the area that would typically occupy the content of a letter; in this exercise Control/right-clicking
you will create ruler guides to mark the live area. a ruler and choosing a
new option. Each ruler
1. With gcm-letterhead.indd open, choose View>Show Rulers if you don’t (horizontal and verti-
see rulers at the top and left edges of the document window. cal) can have a different
unit of measurement.

Rulers show the
document dimensions
using the default unit
of measurement.

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