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Awesome InDesign CS5 find by Mike Rankin

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:

Vertical Spreads in InDesign CS5

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

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5 Comments

  1. December 28, 2010    

    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

  2. December 22, 2010    

    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!

  3. Paul Paul
    July 13, 2010    

    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

  4. Cari Jansen Cari Jansen
    May 8, 2010    

    Hi Moiz, thank you for pointing that out. Have fixed the link so it’s actually working now 🙂

    Cari

  5. Moiz Moiz
    May 8, 2010    

    The Link to “Transforming Pages in CS5” is broken. Missing “H” in “http”.

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