Honest, Mike’s one of those super smart people who just finds the coolest gadgets in InDesign CS5. He’s just written a post on InDesign Secrets on Transforming Pages in CS5. As soon as I read it I thought: Calendars… so I tested his tip and ooooh yeahhhhh baby….. you can now construct your InDesign document with vertical spreads… A much requested feature… What an amazing tip Mike!!!
Not just that… if you Export the InDesign Document as Spreads to PDF… you get a similar result:
A seriously cool find! Thank you Mike!!
This is a great way obviously of providing proofs to your customer, however, I won’t guarantee that your printer will be happy with this
You can actually achieve a similar PDF result from InDesign CS4 as well… (and CS5) … using Rotate Spread View (Pages panel menu) … However, that results initially in a rotated spread PDF (landscape) output. You’d need to use the Rotate Pages command in Acrobat to get the same finished (portrait) result.
For a step-by-step ‘how to create vertical page spreads in InDesign CS5″ please refer to my blog-post on InDesign Secrets: http://bit.ly/f8Tab9
The Link to “Transforming Pages in CS5″ is broken. Missing “H” in “http”.
Hi Moiz, thank you for pointing that out. Have fixed the link so it’s actually working now
Cari
Hi Cari-
I have been reading your “vertical spreads” posting. This is awesome. I still find it a little hard to follow step by step to start the document from scratch. Is it possible to email me a layout preset or simple setup instructions?
Thanks a Bunch in advance!!
Paul
Hi Cari
Can you tell me if you made a vertical master page? One on top of each other? If so, how did you acomplish that? I tried to do it by myself, but all I got was a landscape side by side. Thank you!
Hi Helvecio, I’ve just written a post on the InDesign Secrets blog on how to do this step-by-step: http://bit.ly/f8Tab9