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Page size, columns, and margins

Page size, columns, and margins - InDesign Tutorial

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Page size, columns, and margins

- Now that we've seen how you start a new document let's take a look at how you set the page size, columns, and margins. Now you can go with a predefined size such as Letter, which is very common in the United States or A4 which is more popular in Europe and the rest of the world. But you don't have to work that way. In fact, if you intend to commercially reproduce the document, that is take it into a commercial printer, or you're going to export it as a PDF or EPUB file then you can dial in any values you like. Now notice that by default, here in the States anyway, I'm seeing a width of 51p0 and a height of 66p0. Now that might seem pretty strange if you've never heard of picas before. Here in the United States picas are a very common unit of measurement in the world of design. And here's how it works, there are six picas in an inch and there are 12 points in a pica. Which means there are 72 points in an inch. But you don't have to accept that unit of measure. For example, let's say…

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