There is a new feature in InDesign CS5 that allows users to include multiple page sizes in the same document. Jeff Witchel experimented with this new feature and found that it could be very useful when laying out a book jacket design. Watch this video and see how he did it.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
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Excellent. I’m in the middle of a book project. Thanks for that.
Very useful tutorial. Good resource!
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Ok, dumb question: to make a trifold, do you make 3 panels 3.7 wide by 8.5 high (room for bleed, margins) and then shrink the last panel down a bit? How much is a bit?
I have to try this with our printer to see how to print it out.
Hi Rob,
Yes!
If your printed page is 11″ X 8.5″ and the first two panels are 3.7″, that leaves 3.6″ for that last panel. So set up three 3.7 pages and then make “folded in” panel 3.6″. Ideally the difference should be .125″.
The best way to get the correct sizes for each panel is to call your printer. They may even offer Templates with the correct panel sizes.
Hope this helps!
Jeff
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Thanks a lot. I just switched to CS5 and it things as above just look less time-consuming really!
Hi Jeff…
great tutorial… just battling to hear the commentary: could you crank up the soundtrack?
Thanks
Peter
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Yes it’s really simpler than ever to make a cover with a spine. The best thing about it is that when you include crop marks it gives the position of the spine as marks. Previously you had to manually insert fold marks where the spine was to indicate to the printers.
If you haven’t got CS5 don’t fret – just create a document and add the width of the spine to the overall size. In Margins and Columns insert 2 columns and insert the size of the spine for the gutter. That will give you a visual indication where the spine is in the layout.
Really helpful, great tutorial cheers Jeff
Great tutorial!
I have a stupid question, when i publish it, how do i make all of the pages stay connected, when i export it into a pdf it still has the 3 pages/sections separate (on on top of the other)
Im new to Indesign.
Thank u again!
THANK YOU! This just saved me a ton of time- and was one of the easiest videos to follow that I’ve seen in a while.
Much appreciated.
Hi jeff! It has long been thought how to do it and here is found. Thank You! And greetings from Ukraine.