- Slug area is larger than the bleed area and is used for registration marks etc, things that are usually trimmed off. When a piece needs to be printed there is an option to print everything included within that area.
- Primary text frame. if this is checked every page automatically has a text frame placed on it. The size of the text frame is distinguished by the margin sizes. With multiple pages the text frames will be linked.
Outer line is the slug.
- If you have a lot of text and just one page with a primary text frame, as soon as you paste the text, indesign will automatically add enough pages to contain the text.
If you put marks within the slug area you have to check the box in the marks and bleeds option in print for those to be printed out.
Shortcuts:
- Preview is W
- To view whole page is CMD 0
- Select text, CMD, shift, greater or less than arrow. Increases or decreases the size of the text. (Jumps up in two's) If you hold down the ALT key too it will jump up in ten's.
- To change the line spacing. CMD, ALT, up and down arrows.
- ALT, up and down arrows. Gives smaller jumps of line spacing.
- With photoshop; Make sure the image is 300 dpi, CMYK or greyscale, TIFF or PSD, prepare them at actual size.
- With illustrator; CMYK, save as AI or copy and paste.
- When working in indesign if you press the ALT key and double click an image it will open up in photoshop so that any size alterations or general alterations can be made to the image.
- With images in indesign they now have a links icon above them to make you aware the indesign knows where the original image is.
- If the image is missing you get a little red symbol with a question mark where the links would usually be.
- When resizing an image in photoshop always make sure you check the dpi first and then go back to indesign to check the scale percentage and then change that too.
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