Document setup

Settings

On the dialog's left side, specify how extensively your changes will be applied:

• Set properties of—Select the scope of pages to be modified:
  • Whole Document—properties will be applied to all spreads and master pages within the document.
  • Selected Masters—properties will be applied to the selected masters within the document.
  • Selected Spreads—properties will be applied to the selected spreads within the document.
• Pages list—(Selected Masters and Selected Spreads scopes) Tap the thumbnails of the master pages/spreads whose settings you wish to modify to select them. When selected, a check mark is displayed.

On the dialog's right side, specify settings you want to apply to your selected scope:

• Document (Whole Document scope):
  • Document units—Displays your rulers and object dimensions in pixels, points, picas or using physical measurement units.
  • DPI—Sets the resolution of your document. For example, for professional print quality, set your resolution to 300 dpi or above.
  • Image placement—Determines whether placed images or documents will be embedded in or linked to the document by default.
• Model (Whole Document scope):
  • Facing pages—Enable to arrange the document pages in spreads.
  • Arrange—Specify whether the spread's pages should be arranged horizontally or vertically. For facing-page spreads only.
  • Start on—Specify where the spread should start. For facing-page spreads only.
• Label (Selected Masters scope, with one master page selected):
  • Name—Enter the name you wish to assign to the master page.
• Dimensions (any scope):
  • Show Dimensions of—Specify the part of the spread you would like to set the dimensions of. Spread encompasses both sides of a facing-page spread.
  • Page preset—offers preset spread sizes to select from, e.g. A4.
  • Dimensions—change these values to make a custom spread size. (An alternative to selecting a Page preset size above.)
  • Orientation—Tap the landscape or portrait icon. Changing this setting swaps the width and height values.
  • Page layout—(Selected Masters scope only) Specify whether the master page is a single page or a facing-pages spread.
• Scaling (any scope):
  • Position—When changing page size, you can anchor the existing page content to the page or spread (they remain the same size) or rescale it in relation to the new page size.
  • Anchor—Sets the anchor point to which existing page content will be anchored to upon page resize.
  • Resample—When Rescale is selected, lets you control how objects are resampled.
• Colour (Whole Document scope):
  • Colour Format—Sets the colour mode to RGB or Grey (8 or 16 bit or, for RGB only, 32-bit HDR), CMYK (8 bit), or Lab (16 bit).
  • Colour Profile—Sets the colour gamut for the previously chosen colour format.
  • When applying a different colour profile, Assign adopts the new profile but leaves the values of the colours/pixels as is. Convert converts each colour from the old profile to the new one—colour/pixel values may change as a result.
  • Transparent background—Enable to set your page background to be transparent.
• Margins (any scope):
  • Use master's margin values—(Selected Spreads scope and only for page/spread with a master page applied.) When enabled, pages/spreads inherit margin values from the masters applied to them. When disabled, your values for the following settings are applied to the pages/spreads.
  • Include margins—Enable to add margins to the page/spread.
  • Left, Right, Top, Bottom—sets the positions of page margins, showing as non-printing coloured lines. Left and Right margins are replaced by Inner and Outer for facing-page spreads.
  • Colour—Sets the margin colour.
• Bleed (Whole Document scope):
  • Left, Right, Top, Bottom—For professional printing, bleed extends the printable area beyond the page edge to allow artwork to be trimmed. Left and Right bleeds are replaced by Inner and Outer for facing-page spreads.
  • Colour—Sets the bleed colour. Select from the pop-up menu.