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Rotating pages and spreads

Rotating pages and spreads - InDesign Tutorial

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Rotating pages and spreads

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Not all documents are laid out so that the text is right side up. If you're building a calendar, for example, you may want to turn the whole spread sideways so that it looks like it's opening vertically instead of horizontally. Or, if you're building some cool packaging or an ad that has text sideways or upside down, it would be really helpful if you could rotate the screen view to make it easier to read it. Here in this Roux Catalog document, I'm going to jump to Page 9 just by double- clicking on it here in the Pages Panel, and we'll see that we have a whole form that's sideways on the page. It's a real hassle to edit that, so I'm going to rotate the view. Now, in the past, the only way to do that was to pick up your computer and turn it on its side. Fortunately, InDesign gives you the power to rotate the Page View in 90 degree increments anytime you want. Here's how to do it. First, select the page in the Pages Panel. Now, it's going to rotate the whole spread, not just that one…

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