Indesign Workshop

So as I have been doing with the other workshops, here's my rave review on the Indesign workshop. This entry will be more instructional as I feel that it will help me in the long run to gather things like this on an online document format until I'm comfortable with practising them. These points are here to reiterate and also because these workshops a really good starting point and source of info for the 16 page publication.

• Paper Sizes: Always make your document the size of the finished, printed product. (makes sense really)
• Gutter = Space between columns
• Margin guides = consistant white space around page edges
• Bleed = when print needs to extend over the page edge (- eg a full page photo spread in a publication.)
• Print an A4 print onto an A3 page for best results. (Same with A3 on A2 etc.)
• Slug = extra space for printing crop marks etc.

Some limitations:

• Using a font when sending a document to a commercial printers is effectively illegal, who'd have guessed?
• DPI resolution should be 300.

so there you have it - all this stuff is good to know and is contributing to my publication nicely :)

ta