Let’s add those pages to our document so that we’ll always have the exact amount of pages needed when we open the template. Let’s say that we know every issue of the magazine is 36 pages with the cover.

Hit OK.Īs you can see, we now have two Master pages, one for the cover and one for the inner pages. We will change the width from 8.5″ to 8.75”, adding an additional quarter of an inch for this purpose.

In the New Master dialogue box, we will name our new master page “Cover.” Before we hit OK, we want to define the dimensions differently because we have to make up for the thickness of the physical magazine. But, for this exercise, we will use the drop down menu and select the New Master Option.

One way is discussed here, and another way is by using the Create New Page button if you are in the Master Page section of the Pages Panel. There are a few ways to create additional master pages in the Pages Panel. Now we know that this specific page layout is for the inner pages of the magazine. In the Master Options dialogue box, under Name type “Inner Pages” (or whatever you want to name yours!) and hit OK. To change the name of the Master Page, in the Pages Panel, choose Master Options for “A-Master.” Let’s define it as that by changing the name in the Pages Panel.

Since the page we already designed is 8.5” by 11” and it contains all of our ad guidelines, we know this is the size for our inner pages. This basically means that the cover of the magazine will be slightly wider than the inner pages to make up for the thickness of the contained pages. When dealing with a magazine, you have to consider thickness of the finished product. In this final part, we’ll cover adding an additional page size, adding pages to our file size and then saving our file in the template format. In the last article, Creating and Using Templates in InDesign Part 2, we talked about creating paragraph styles and footers.

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