Creating new documents

New Document Presets list

Portrait / Landscape—select whether to display your document in a portrait or landscape orientation.
Preset list—displays presets categorised according to the aim and deliverable of your project. As well as Print (RGB desktop printing) and Press Ready (CMYK professional printing) presets you can adopt screen-ready presets.
Rename Category—lets you rename the associated category.
Add New Preset—saves a new custom preset to a category.
New Category—creates a new custom preset category.
Rename Preset—renames the currently selected preset.
Delete Presets/Categories—tap to allow presets to be deleted via the red button; tap again to delete preset categories.

Document settings

The New Document dialog also presents separate tabs which allow you to customise your current preset's settings and setup your document.

General:
- Page width / Page height—change these values to make a custom page size.
- DPI—sets the resolution of your document. For example, for professional print quality, set your resolution to 300 dpi.
- Document units—displays your rulers and object dimensions in pixels, points, picas or using physical measurement units.
- Image placement—determines whether placed images or documents are to be embedded or linked in the document by default.
- Default master—when enabled (default), a blank master page (Master A) is automatically created and assigned to all created pages.
- Facing pages—enable to use facing page spreads in your publication. A spread presents a left (verso) and right (recto) page together in the document view.
- Arrange—specify whether the document pages should be arranged horizontally or vertically.
- Start on—specify where the document pages should start.
- Number of pages—sets the number of pages the document has. Use the stepper controls to increment one page at a time.
- Colour format—sets the colour mode to RGB (8, 16 or 32 bit HDR), Grey (8 or 16 bit), CMYK (8 bit), or Lab (16 bit).
- Colour profile—sets the colour gamut for the previously chosen colour format.
- Transparent background—enable to set your page background to be transparent.
Margins and Bleed:
- Margins—set to switch on page margins.
  - Left, Right, Top, Bottom—sets the printer margins, showing as non-printable blue lines. For facing-page documents, the Left and Right options are replaced with Inner and Outer, respectively.
  - For the same margin value: Enable the Link symbol, and set any margin value; all other values will update to this.
- Bleed:
  - Left, Right, Top, and Bottom—sets the bleed values for the edges of the page. For facing pages, Inner and Outer are used instead of Left and Right, respectively.
  - For the same bleed value: Enable the Link symbol, and set any bleed value; all other values will update to this.

Customising document presets

Any document preset can be customised. Typically, customising just the page size may be needed with the remaining preset settings kept unchanged.

To customise a preset:

From the dialog, choose a preset from the Presets list.
Adjust the document's settings using the tabs. The preset name above the preview window displays an asterisk (*) to indicate the preset has been customised.
Tap OK.

The settings will be remembered for just the current document, although you can save the preset to a memorable name for future use.

To save a custom preset:

Tap Add New Preset under the presets list.
Save the preset to a name.

The custom preset appears at the bottom of the category from which the originally selected preset was customised.

To rename a selected preset:

Tap Rename Preset under the presets list.
Enter a new name for your preset and tap OK.

To delete a selected preset:

Left swipe a custom preset and tap Delete.

To create a new preset category:

Tap New Category under the presets list.
Enter a name for your category and tap OK.

Any preset you save immediately after creating the category will be added to that category.

New Document Presets list

Document settings

Customising document presets

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