The first option is to simply click and drag on the canvas to create a new rectangular artboard. Once you’re in the Artboard Tool, you have several options when it comes to adding a new artboard. To do this, select it from the toolbar or press Shift + O. Before you begin, make sure you’re in the Artboard tool. I teach both Indesign and Illustrator and this is something that very often confuses a newbie in Illustrator.ītw, I’ve never had any problems with these pdfs at the printers.Adding an artboard in Adobe Illustrator is a simple process. The nice thing about how InDesign does it compared to Illustrator is that each page still has only the items that are on it showing up in the layers panel. When the combined margin is larger than the size of your spin, InDesign crashes. A new master pages “inherits” the margins you specified when creating your document. If you use this for wrap-around covers, make sure that your margins are set to zero. Designing leaflets with “unusual” folds used to be very complicated but this feature makes it really easy. If you export to spreads all the pages on one spread merge into one large page and if you have crop marks checked, you even get fold marks. In order to get rid of the space between pages and have correctly sized documents, it’s best to create a new master page with the correct values for each of the different sized pages instead of resizing them with the page tool. I use that feature all the time when creating leaflets and book covers. (Now if we could only get the 3D Extrude feature in InDesign…) Look, I’m not saying that you should use InDesign instead of Illustrator! ( Mordy would never forgive me.) But you can make InDesign act a bit more like Illustrator, in case you feel more comfortable this way. When that happens, any text or graphics that fall in the intersection actually show up on both pages when you print or make a PDF… just like it works in Illustrator! The crazy thing is that you can even drag the pages around so that they overlap. I kind of reflects the page size change, but not very well and it definitely doesn’t reflect the page positioning. The only problem is that the Pages panel can’t keep up with what you’re doing. You can even change its orientation! And you can drag it anywhere on the spread… I mean, um, canvas, that you want! Remember that when the Page tool is selected, you can also change the size of the page in the Control panel.
So zoom back until you can see all the pages in your document window, switch to the Page tool (Shift+P), and then drag the pages around:
Now you have a bunch of pages in a single spread, and each one is right up next to the other. In the following image, page 4 is being dragged over to be added to the spread that already contains pages 1 to 3: The key is to drag the page until you see a small black arrow indicating where the page will land. you can click the New Page button in the Pages panel):įourth, use the Selection tool to drag the pages over to make them into one big spread.
Third, add some pages, just like normal (e.g. Second, in the Pages panel menu, turn off Allow Document Pages to Shuffle: Here’s the trick to making InDesign act more like Illustrator (at least in how it handles its pages):įirst, make a new document and in the New Document dialog box, turn off Facing Pages: In InDesign, “pages” live in “spreads” and each spread has its own “pasteboard.” In Illustrator, one or more “artboards” live on one giant “canvas” (or “workspace”).īut did you know that you can make InDesign work kind of like Illustrator? You can make a bunch of “artboards” (pages) on one “canvas.” You can even make the artboards overlap and share artwork among them! The Trick There are actually a lot of similarities between the two applications, but how they handle their workspaces is definitely very different. Some people are used to the way Adobe Illustrator works and get frustrated with they work with InDesign.
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