Layers and master pages - InDesign Tutorial

- [Instructor] So thus far we've created the document, we have determined the size of the margins, we've created a layout grid, and superimposed on top of this a baseline grid. I now want to add some content to the master page spread. So it's important that I'm actually on the master pages. If you're in any doubt, you can come and check down here, bottom left, and that should say A-Master. So what I want to do here is put my folios. That's the page number, the magazine name, and the publication date. Anything that I put on the master pages will appear on all of my document pages, or to be more precise, on all document pages that are based on my A-Master, which in the case of this project is all of the document pages. You can see they all have As in the outside corner of their icon. Before I do this I'm going to create layers I like to organize my content onto layers. I don't need many. I'm just going to have three in this project. One for text, and I'll rename layer 1 text. I'm going to have one for pictures. Now my pictures layer I actually want to go beneath my text layer so I can create it and I can drag it down. But if I hold down the command key and the option key or the control key and the alt key and click on the new layer icon, it gives me the chance to create the layer, name the layer, and put that layer beneath my current selected layer. And I want one more. This one is actually going to go above, and this one will be called master items. And it's on this layer, as it's name suggests that I'm going to put my page numbers. I'll press the t key, and that's going to choose my type tool. Now using my guides as visual reference, I'm going to drag myself a text frame from my outside margin to my inside margin. And we can see this has a dotted line indicating that it is on the master page. I might want to zoom in at this point so that I can see what I'm doing. I'll press command or control 2. That's going to jump me to 200%. And then right click and choose insert special character, markers, current page number. Or I can use this keyboard shortcut, which is command option shift or control alt shift and that's going to give me a page number or a page number marker and this is going to correspond to the master page that I'm on, which is the A-Master. Now after this I would like a space. But I want a space that's bigger than a regular space. One thing I never want to do is press my space bar twice. So instead I'm going to right click again and choose insert white space, and we have these different white space characters. The widest of them, and the one that I want to use, is the em space. And now I'll just type in the name of the publication. This is obviously a fictional publication, and I couldn't think of anything better than that, which does show quite a lack of imagination on my part, but you get the idea. So there's the publication name. And now I want a publication date. And let's say that I want the date to be on the inside margin. I'm going to do this all within one text frame and I will use what's called a right indent tab. If I hold down the shift key and then press tab it will move my cursor over flush with the right edge of the text frame, and I'll now just type in the dates. I have this now on my left hand master page. I want a mirror of this on my right hand master page. So before I do that I need to attend to some other things so that when I copy it it's exactly the way I want it to be. So I'm going to select the text. Now the type face that I want to use, they type face family, is Tisa Pro, but of course if you don't have that you can use any equivalent type face. It's a slab serif type face. It's available on Typekit which you have as part of your Creative Cloud subscription. Tisa Pro regular. The size of my body text is going to be 9.5 points. And I want my folio to be a little bit smaller than that. So I'm going to make it 8.5 points. Because I want my folios to mirror each other, I'm going to come and change the alignment to this last option align away from spine. I'm still going to have some work to do when I move a copy over onto the right hand page, but that's going to save me one step. And then I'm now going to change my workspace to the advance workspace, which gives me access to my paragraph styles. I now am going to save this selected text as a paragraph style so that if I decide to change the appearance of the text it's going to be easy to edit the style definition. I'll choose new paragraph style, and I will call this folio. I have apply style to selection checked, and I have this option down here add to CC library. I have this unchecked. Adobe are really pushing their CC libraries, so this tends to be on more often than you would like it to be. I don't find that to be particularly useful, so just make sure that's turned off. Not a big deal if you did have it turned on. A bit of an inconvenience. So now there's one more thing I want to do, and that is determine the position of this. I'm going to start by moving it up so that the top of the text frame actually touches the bottom margin. So rather than just position it at a random distance from the bottom margin, I want to position it numerically. I'll come and choose my top reference point. As I've mentioned a few times, my leading value, my line spacing value, the increment of this grid here, and the width of the gutters is 11 points. So I'm going to be thinking in blocks of 11. I want to add 11 points above this. Actually, that was where I started, but then I realized I had a bit more space to play with so I'm going to add a space and a half. So I'm actually going to add 16.5 points. I'm just typing in plus 16.5 after the current y value, and that's going to move that down. I'll just tidy up the height of this frame by double clicking on the bottom center. And there's one more thing that I need to do, which I've forgotten is that I'd like to put a rule above this. But let me first of all just copy over. I'll now zoom out to my fit in window view, which is command option 0 or control alt 0. And then I'm holding down my option or alt key and my shift key and I'm going to drag a copy of that over to the right hand page. I'm now going to zoom in on this, command space bar or control space bar and click and drag. Because I need to switch the order around here. Let me come and turn on a useful viewing option from the type menu. I'll choose show hidden characters. And there we see there is that tab character, that right indent tab. Let's delete that. And then I'm going to grab this text and I want to move it to the right of the date. Another preference that I'm going to turn on, and of course once these are turned on they're going to remain on for this document. I'm going to come to my type preferences and turn on drag and drop text editing in the layout view. That's going to mean that I can just drag that selected text right there. I can delete that em space, select the page number marker, drag that to the right, insert my cursor in front of it, and add an em space right there. Now before I right clicked and came to the white space menu. This time I'm going to do it with the keyboard shortcut, which is command shift m. And then with my cursor between the date and the publication name I will press shift tab. So I realize that that is somewhat fiddly to do, but we now have our mirrored folios. As I mentioned, there was one thing that I forgot that since I have made the paragraph style I can now just edit the style definition. And to do that right click, don't double click but right click on the style name and choose edit folio. I'm going to apply this as a paragraph rule. Rule above. I'll turn that on. I'll reduce the wight of the rule. And now I need to adjust the position of the rule. And that is in the offset. I'll just click into that field and tap my up arrow. And I'm going to go to 9 points. I'll click OK. Zoom out. And we see that that has also applied to the left hand folio. If I turn off my guides by pressing w, that's how my master pages now look. If I select those frames we see that they are green because they are on the master items layer. There's one other issue with the master page items that is going to come up later on. But rather than anticipate that now I want you to see the problem and we'll address it as and when it comes up. But for now we have those folios available on all of our document pages. I'll save this and then see you back in the next movie.