From the course: InDesign CC: Designing a Magazine Layout
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Margins and grids - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign CC: Designing a Magazine Layout
Margins and grids
- [Instructor] So, having set up our six-page document as three facing-pages spreads, I now want to determine the size of my margins and create a document grid. Firstly, I should say that typically people create their margins when they start the new document. You can just put in the margins right here, and if this icon here is an unbroken chain, whatever you put in for one will become the same for the other three. I don't think that gives enough consideration to the margins, which are an important part of our design. I want to walk you through my thought process on how I have arrived at the margin values that I'm using. Ultimately, I'm not that different from the default values but are slightly different, and I think slightly better. So this is how we start out, we start out with a page size of eight and 3/8 by 10 and 7/8 inches. This is a common US magazine size. Here are the equivalent sizes in points and in millimeters. For the most part, I'll be using points because the interline…
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