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Adding alternate layouts

Adding alternate layouts - InDesign Tutorial

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Adding alternate layouts

I have an ad here, and I'm going to send it off to three different magazines. The problem is that each magazine requires a slightly different sized ad. So I have some options. I could make three different InDesign files, or I could make one InDesign file with three different sized pages, but instead, I'm going to use a little-known InDesign feature called Alternate Layouts. Alternate Layouts lives in the Pages panel. So I'll open up that panel and I can see that I have a one-page document here. This will work with a multipage document too, but in this case, I'm just doing a one page ad. And I'm going to go to the Pages panel menu and choose Create Alternate Layout. When the Create Alternate Layout dialogue box appears, we can see that InDesign is naming my layout Custom H, and it's basing it on a source page, that's the original layout, called Custom V. H and V refers to the horizontal and vertical layout. If somebody rotates their tablet, they get a different layout. In this case…

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