Aug. 1, 2009
If you’re sick of turning your head to look at rotated objects you need this tip…
New to InDesign Cs4 is the ability to rotate your spread or page view. You can rotate by 90° CW, 90° CCW, or 180°. To do this, simply select a page or spread from the pages panel. Now that you have it selected, “Right Click”/”Control Click” the page or spread, from the contextual menu that appears choose “Rotate Spread View” and then either 90° CW, 90° CCW, or 180°. Your page is now rotated and you will notice a small rotation symbol that now exists next to your page, indicating the page has been rotated.
You can edit your document as you would normally if your page/spread has been rotated. This form of rotation is visual only, your page won’t print this way, nor will it appear rotated when you export a pdf. It is only to make viewing your document easier.
It’s probably best to remove your rotation once you’re finished with this view. To do this, “Right Click”/”Control Click” the rotation symbol to the right of the page/spread and choose “Clear Rotation”.
There are other ways to rotate your spread, you may want to try these:
• View > Rotate Spread
• Go to the fly out menu (upper right side) of the pages panel and choose “Rotate Spread View”
For more information on this topic via Adobe help click here.
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May. 9, 2009
Copy or move pages between documents the smart way…
If you need to copy pages from one document to another, don’t be fooled into using the old Copy and Paste method. Instead use “Move Pages”. Using ”Move Pages” allows you to move your pages between documents while maintaining a lot of the document specific attributes like margins, bleeds, master pages, swatches and styles. Copy and Paste just doesn’t compare.
For ideal results, it’s best if the document you’re copying from and to have the same page dimensions (width and height). If they aren’t it will still work, however the alignment of the page items will be slightly different.
From the “Pages” panel select the page/s you’re wanting to move or copy, by clicking on their page number. Now selected, go up to the flyout menu within the pages panel and choose ”Move Pages”. A dialogue now appears which lets you set what pages you want to move, where you want them placed within the document, and what document you want to move them to. You must have the document you’re wanting to move the pages to open. When set choose “OK”. There’s no real indication that anything has happened, however if you switch across to the document you moved the pages to you’ll see that everything worked nicely.
For more information on this topic via Adobe help click here.
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