Indesign help...am I screwed?
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- 72-dpi
Hi everyone,
I have designed a book in InDesign with a trim of 8.5 x 11. Is there any way to change the size to 7.5 x 10 without having to resize all elements on each individual page?
Thanka for your help!
- ninjasavant0
Let me see if I understand this correctly: You want to resize each page and have the content resize with it. Is that right?
If that is right you may be screwed since there's no way to do that page by page.
However, there is a way to prevent this in certain ways in the future by using master pages. That way you can resize all the common elements once and then go in and resize the specific page content. Good luck.
- Gucci0
how many of the elements are products of a master page? I'd say that's the only way to be able to control things.
Indesign is pretty smart about keeping things in decent order when you change the document size, but there's no way I would trust it - it'll fuck up all kinds of stuff, columns, reflow text, etc.
I think you're shit out of luck. Hopefully you can charge the client for it.
- draydog0
You can also use object styles to control sizes as a time saver.
- forcetwelve0
if you havnt used masters its not too late. just cut the common elements from the pages to a master page, and then delete the bits on the other pages.
- 72-dpi0
Thanks everyone. I did use master pages, so resizing may not be as horrible as I thought.
- barbtastic0
no way guys... you can do this
under LAYOUT, click "layout adjustment", then check "enable"
then go to document setup and change yr page size :D
it will resize everything automatically
- forcetwelve0
does it screw up your type sizes though?
- barbtastic0
i'm not sure about that one... hopefully yr using styles?