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Using Master Pages

Discover how to efficiently create and manage multipage documents in InDesign with our step-by-step guide. Learn to create and modify master pages, essential for maintaining consistent layouts across your document. Explore how to create master items, override them, and apply new designs seamlessly. With insights on moving pages, numbering styles, and customizing the Pages panel, you’ll master the art of document design. Ideal for designers looking to enhance their InDesign skills, this guide ensures your workflow is both productive and creative.

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Using Master Pages

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  1. Using Master Pages

  2. Objectives Create a multipage document Create master items Override master items Modify a master page Create a new master page Apply master pages Work with master pages

  3. Creating a Multipage Document • Once you’ve created a multiple-page document in InDesign: • You’ll be ready to work with master pages on the Pages panel • Displays master page icons and document page icons, which represent the master pages and document pages

  4. Creating a Multipage Document Figure E-1: New Document dialog box Figure E-2: Pages panel

  5. Creating a Multipage Document Figure E-3: A-Master in the document window

  6. Creating Master Items • Master items • Objects placed on master pages • Company logos • Page numbers • Empty frames reserved for text and pictures • If a master item on a master page is removed or changed: • That item is removed from or changed on the corresponding document pages

  7. Creating Master Items • Numbering & Section Options dialog box • Used to change the InDesign page numbering style • More than one page numbering system can be used in a document

  8. Creating Master Items Figure E-4: New text box Figure E-5: Viewing the page number placeholder

  9. Creating Master Items Figure E-6: A-Master spread

  10. Overriding Master Items • To modify master items on document pages: • You must override them • “Unlocking” the master item • Local overrides • Adding a non-master item to a document page that has a master applied • Overriding a master item on a page • Removed using Remove All Local Overrides on the Pages Panel options button

  11. Overriding Master Items Figure E-7: Placing the sports.psd image

  12. Overriding Master Items Figure E-8: Pages 4 and 5 of the camp booklet_ID-E.indd

  13. Modifying a Master Page • Master pages can be change at any time in the production process • Changes made on master pages are reflected on the document pages • Can also add new master items to existing master pages • The new items will appear on each document page with that master assigned to it

  14. Modifying a Master Page Figure E-9: Positioning the text box

  15. Modifying a Master Page Figure E-10: Formatting the text

  16. Modifying a Master Page Figure E-11: Pages 6 and 7 of the camp booklet_ID-E.indd document

  17. Modifying a Master Page • Moving document pages • Moving a page in a document shuffles the pages between the moved page’s previous and new locations • You can move pages in a document by dragging page icons on the Pages panel to new locations on the panel • For long documents, you can use the Move Pages command on the Pages Panel menu • The Move Pages dialog box lets you indicate which pages to move and where to move them

  18. Creating a New Master Page • InDesign documents • Can have many master pages for many styles of pages • New master pages • Can be based on one that already exists • Start off with an exact copy of existing master • Primary text frame • Text box master item added to the A-Master when a new document is created

  19. Creating a New Master Page Figure E-12: New Master dialog box Figure E-13: Pages panel with new B-Front Cover Master

  20. Creating a New Master Page FIGURE E-14: Modified Front Cover master page

  21. Applying Master Pages • All new document pages have A-Master applied to them by default • It is simple to apply a master page other than the A-Master to a document page • Drag the master page icon on the Pages panel to the document page icon • Master pages can also be applied using the Apply Master to Pages command on the Pages panel menu

  22. Applying Master Pages Figure E-15: Panel Options dialog box • Pages panel can be customized: • Click the Pages Panel options button • Click Panel Options to open the Panel Options dialog box

  23. Applying Master Pages Figure E-16: Applying the B-Front Cover master to page 1

  24. Applying Master Pages Figure E-17: Front cover of camp booklet_ID-E.indd

  25. Working with Master Pages • Pages Panel options menu • Loaded with commands for working with master pages • Insert and delete master pages and document pages • Move document pages • Apply color labels to document pages • Load master pages from other InDesign documents • Find unused master pages • Save document pages as master pages

  26. Working with Master Pages • Loading master pages: • Click the Pages Panel options button • Click Load Master Pages • Open a File dialog box opens • Preventing shuffling: • Select the spread on the Pages panel • Click the Pages Panel options button • Click Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle • Remove the check mark

  27. Working with Master Pages Figure E-18: Applying color labels to pages Figure E-19: Viewing the C-Master on the Pages panel

  28. Working with Master Pages Figure E-20: Pages 6 and 7 of the Camp booklet

  29. Unit Summary • Create a multipage document • Create master items • Override master items • Modify a master page • Create a new master page • Apply master pages • Work with master pages

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