InDesign CS4 tip: Spread together
Let's say you are designing a 2 sided flyer. No folding, no stitching, just a plain flyer and you have selected InDesign to compile it on.
You open up InDesign and make a 2 page document. And this happens:
You may like it the way shown above or you would rather design the layout having both sides of the flyer side by side.
But how to make a document containing 2 pages where both pages are side by side on your screen?
To start off, create a document which contains at least 3 pages (we're going to delete the 1st page later). Ensure that you have "facing pages" ticked on. You can also check that later in: Document Setup under File -menu.
The page 1 "cover" is sitting alone on top and the pages 2 and 3 are side by side there under it. Something like shown below.
Go find the Pages panel and click to select pages 2 and 3 by holding down the Shift key or CMD (on mac). You should see a slight color change on those page thumbnails to indicate that they both are selected.
Now right-click on that selected pair of pages (or CTRL click on Mac) to open a menu, which has "Allow selected spread to shuffle" ticked.... along with some other stuff ticked also, but thats the one to look for.
Un-tick the above specified option. This makes the selected spread to stay together no matter where you drag it on the pages panel view.
Now you can get rid of the page 1 "cover", which sits alone on top of the pages view. And you should come to a situation shown below.
This "combined" spread should now stay side by side, even if you add some more pages to your document later on and re-order pages.
You can export the layout as one sided spread (pages are side by side) or as separate pages, which is the case here with our flyer project.
A word of warning: remember the correct bleed settings when exporting to a pdf.
oh, and excuse my english...
You open up InDesign and make a 2 page document. And this happens:
You may like it the way shown above or you would rather design the layout having both sides of the flyer side by side.
But how to make a document containing 2 pages where both pages are side by side on your screen?
To start off, create a document which contains at least 3 pages (we're going to delete the 1st page later). Ensure that you have "facing pages" ticked on. You can also check that later in: Document Setup under File -menu.
The page 1 "cover" is sitting alone on top and the pages 2 and 3 are side by side there under it. Something like shown below.
Go find the Pages panel and click to select pages 2 and 3 by holding down the Shift key or CMD (on mac). You should see a slight color change on those page thumbnails to indicate that they both are selected.
Now right-click on that selected pair of pages (or CTRL click on Mac) to open a menu, which has "Allow selected spread to shuffle" ticked.... along with some other stuff ticked also, but thats the one to look for.
Un-tick the above specified option. This makes the selected spread to stay together no matter where you drag it on the pages panel view.
Now you can get rid of the page 1 "cover", which sits alone on top of the pages view. And you should come to a situation shown below.
This "combined" spread should now stay side by side, even if you add some more pages to your document later on and re-order pages.
You can export the layout as one sided spread (pages are side by side) or as separate pages, which is the case here with our flyer project.
A word of warning: remember the correct bleed settings when exporting to a pdf.
oh, and excuse my english...
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