Use margins and column guides to position content.
Indesign viewing gutter lines.
Here is an example on an a5.
Ruler guides are different from grids in that they can be positioned freely on a page or on a pasteboard.
Hi there i m trying to layout an illustrated children s book by importing 8x10 image bleed and layering text on top.
If you accepted the defaults for page orientation and size margins columns and gutters when you created your indesign creative suite 5 document and then find that you need to change them you are not alone.
Indesign uses the first definition in margins and columns so i m going to guess that is what your question is about.
Enter values for top bottom left and right margins as well as the number of columns and the gutter the space between columns.
Some people use gutter to describe the space between 2 columns other use it to describe the space between two pages.
Fortunately indesign cs5 makes these changes easy.
Page orientation and size when you create a new document you can.
Create a spot rgb swatch to denote fold lines in the slug.
Make the margins twice as thick as the gutter place a ruler guide in between.
The problem is that my margin gutter grid lines only show up behind the image this makes it really hard to place text.
Note that this solution works for an accordion fold but is inappropriate for a barrel fold.
You can create two kinds of ruler guides.
Choose layout margins and columns.