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Working at a reduced size

Working at a reduced size - InDesign Tutorial

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Working at a reduced size

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When you start designing artwork for large format output, it's helpful if you know some of the limitations that you're going to face in the graphics programs that you frequently use. For example, there's a limit to how big you can build a file. InDesign will let you build a page that's 18 feet by 18 feet, which is pretty generous. And, it will let you combine ten of those pages in one spread. So, that would be 18 feet by 180 feet. Now, that sounds like more than you'd ever need, but, for example, if you look at a 20 foot by 60 foot billboard, clearly, you can't build it tall enough because you're limited to 18 feet. So, you find that you build at a reduced size, and we're going to talk a little bit more about that in a minute. Illustrator has its limitations. The maximum canvas size is 227 and a half inches on a side. Now, within that canvas you can have multiple artboards. If you build one artboard right to the edge though that's as big as you can go. And Photoshop doesn't handle it…

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