![]() Step 7: Print Setup (Export PDF + Acrobat)* Optional/Alternative to InDesign Print BookletĪnother option for printing your calendar is to export a print-ready PDF. If the numbers match up, you are good-to-go and can move forward with laying out your artwork on each page spread. You should now be able to scroll through each printer spread and the numbers within the proview should match up to the numbers you have labelled on your artwork. Once you’ve completed adjusting your printer and print options, click ‘Ok’ and you will return to your Print Booklet preview. Choose the ‘Marks and Bleed’ tab on the right side of the dialogue box and select ‘Crop Marks’ and ‘Use Document Bleed’. Note: We will scale our artwork down to accommodate for our crop marks and bleed. Then choose a landscape mode from the ‘Orientation’ section, and finally select ‘Scale To Fit’ your calendar on the printed sheet of paper. Select ‘Tabloid’ or ’11×17’ from the ‘Paper Size’ drop down menu. Once you click on the Print Settings button, choose the ‘Setup’ tab and select your printer, which should print a tabloid (11×17”) size paper. If your pages don’t fit or you get a yellow warning symbol under the Preview tab, click on ‘Page Settings’ in the lower right corner of the dialogue box. We will be printing our calendar as a 2-up Saddle Stitch. To do this, go to File > Print Booklet in InDesign. ![]() Now that you’ve labelled and numbered each page, it is recommended that you test your printer spread setup before laying out your artwork. Step 6: Print Setup (InDesign, Print Booklet) The layout and information on this page is totally up to you. You may use this page for your name, notes, extra information, such as colophon or designer info, etc…. Keep in mind that your back cover’s artwork will need to be rotated upside down so that it prints in the proper orientation. will be the front cover of the calendar and page 28 will be the back cover. This will allow you to test your printing setup before finalizing any artwork. Note: Before placing all of your artwork on each spread a good practice is to label and number each page using your type tool. In this step, you will layout your design, add all your graphics, set your type and create/style tables to enter all of your calendar days and dates. To rotate your pages, click on the Page panels’ fly-out menu or ‘right-click’ on a selected page and go to Page Attributes > Rotate Spread View > 90 degrees CW Step 5: Design + Layout We will now rotate all of our pages 90 degrees clockwise so that we can layout our artwork in the intended view, which will later be printed in landscape view. All of your pages should now be highlighted. Now that you’ve finished adjusting your margins and creating your modular grid, select all of your pages (1–28) by clicking on page 1, hold SHIFT and then select page 28. When creating your guides, your rows = columns and columns = rows. With this in mind, when adjusting your margins, your top and bottom margins = your left and right margins and your inside and outside margins = your top and bottom margins. This will give you a better sense of your calendar’s true layout. Note: We will be rotating our pages and some artwork in the next step so that your calendar appears in landscape mode. To create a modular grid, go to Layout > Create Guides To adjust your margins, go to Layout > Margins & Columns Select both master pages and then go to your Layout menu to adjust your margins and create guides. Open your pages panel and set up your margins, modular grid, and any consistent graphics on your master pages. Since we will be rotating our pages, the top and bottom will refer to the left and right margins and the inside and outside will refer to the top and bottom margins.
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