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Creating custom page sizes

If you routinely specify a custom page size, you can add it to the Page Size menu in the New Document dialog. You add custom page sizes to the Page Size menu by editing the New Doc Sizes text file in the Presets folder (in the InDesign application folder). This text file is self-documenting; to define custom page sizes, open the file in a text editor and follow the instructions in the file itself.

Page sizes defined in the New Doc Sizes file will appear in the New Document dialog box and the Document Settings dialog box.

Note: You can also specify a custom page size in the New Document dialog box or the Document Settings dialog box; however, custom page sizes specified in these dialog boxes are not available to other documents you create.



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Jason 513 said on Dec 3, 2007 at 7:04 AM :
I am working on an InDesign Document with 8.5"x11" pages in portrait orientation, but also need to include several 11"x17" pages in landscape orientation that will receive an engineer fold to a width of 8.5" after printing. I have been unable to find any option that allows me to insert pages of a size different from the document page size. Is it possible to create an InDesign document with multiple page sizes?
Bob - Adobe Writer said on Dec 3, 2007 at 10:56 AM :
Unfortunately, no. You'll have to create a different document for the 11x17 pages.
LeiaGraf said on Feb 13, 2008 at 2:42 PM :
I'm investigating this same thing at the moment and I've come up with a few options:

Via the third-party plugin area on this site, I found DTP tools who do a plugin to do multiple page sizes within a single document. You get free updates (including new entire versions) and a free version so anyone else using inDesign can still view and edit your documents without having to buy the full plugin. Nifty.

Aside from that, I just had a play with the Book feature, and it seems to do a fine job as well. The only major annoyance is that every time you change page sizes you have to create a new document, so naming conventions would have to be very strict, and it could get very messy. I apologise if you knew about this feature; I knew it was there but never had a reason to touch it before and didn't know how it was handled.

I made a book using one document of A4 portraits, and one of A3 landscape. It printed to PDF fine, and, despite my concerns, retained the correct page size within the PDF! So it's clearly a viable option.

Why Adobe doesn't just include multiple page sizes as standard is beyond me. It's obviously possible, because of the plugin, and Freehand and Corel have been doing it for ages.

Oh well, there's always CS4.

Good luck!
2leigh said on Apr 11, 2008 at 2:45 AM :
I too am trying to create a 12m display wall and want a continuous graphic. The problem is the system we are specifying will have odd size panels ranging from 550mm to 1000mm wide but all at 2700mm high. I intended to make each panel a 'page' in ID and stick them together as a spread at a scale of 1:4 and export the PDF. I know I can create a one piece graphic in Illustrator but it will be so big and cumbersome.... Any ideas or plug in solutions would be really appreciated.
No screen name said on Jul 23, 2008 at 7:08 PM :
For all the automation Adobe has built in ID, its sad not to be able to have different page sizes within a document. Its so kind of restrictive on creativity!!
Bob - Adobe Writer said on Jul 23, 2008 at 8:18 PM :
InDesign programmers have actually worked on the feature you're requesting. Let's hope it makes it into the next version.

 

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