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STAGE 1 / Setting up the Workspace

As you learned in the Interface chapter, InDesign gives you extensive control over your workspace —
you can choose where to place panels, whether to collapse or expand open panels, and even to save
workspaces with sets of panels in specifi c locations. Because workspace issues are largely a matter of
personal preference, we tell you what tools to use, but we don’t tell you where to keep the various
panels. Many of our screen captures show fl oating panels so we can clearly focus on a specifi c issue.
Likewise, we typically don’t tell you what view percentage to use; you should use whatever you are
comfortable with to accomplish the specifi c goal of an exercise.

Defi ne a New Layout File
Some production-related concerns will dictate how you design a letterhead. If
letterhead is being printed commercially, it’s probably being printed with multiple
copies on a large press sheet from which the individual letterhead sheets will be cut.
Most commercial printing happens this way. Th is type of printing typically means Note:
design elements can run right off the edge of the sheet, called bleeding. Some desktop printers
If you’re designing for a printer that can run only letter-size paper, you have to have a minimum mar-
allow enough of a margin area for your printer to hold the paper as it moves through gin at the page edges;
the device (called the gripper margin); in this case, you can’t design with bleeds. you’re usually safe with
Th e most basic process in designing a layout is creating a new InDesign fi le. Th e 3/8″.
New Document dialog box has a large number of options, and the following exercise
explains them. Don’t be overwhelmed by the length of this process; in later projects, Many newer inkjet
we simply tell you what settings to defi ne without re-explaining every fi eld. printers have the capa-
bility to print 8.5 1 11″
1. Download GCMarket_ID19_RF.zip from the Student Files web page. with full bleed. Consult
your printer documenta-
2. Expand the ZIP archive in your WIP folder (Macintosh), or copy the tion to be sure.
archive contents into your WIP folder (Windows).
Th is results in a folder named GCMarket, which contains all the fi les you need for
this project. You should also use this folder to save the fi les you create in this project.
If necessary, refer to Page 1 of the Interface chapter for specifi c information on
expanding or accessing the required resource fi les.

3. In InDesign, choose File>New>Document.
You have several options for
creating a new fi le:
• Choose File>New>
Document
• Use the associated
keyboard shortcut
Command/Control-N
• Click the Create New
button in the Start
workspace
If the Start workspace is visible,
click the Create New button to
open the New Document dialog box.

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