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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

You're reading from   Designing the Adobe InDesign Way Explore 100+ recipes for creating stunning layouts with the leading desktop publishing software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074438
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andy Gardiner Andy Gardiner
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings 2. Chapter 2: Working with Text in InDesign FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using Tables 4. Chapter 4: Using the InDesign Frame Tools 5. Chapter 5: Adding Images to Your Documents 6. Chapter 6: Taking Images Further 7. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Parent Pages 8. Chapter 8: Working with Colors and Gradients 9. Chapter 9: Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles 10. Chapter 10: Generating and Updating a Table of Contents 11. Chapter 11: Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms 12. Chapter 12: Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries 13. Chapter 13: Preflighting and Outputting 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

Creating parents from pages and importing parents

When working with parent pages, you might want to turn existing pages into parents so you can reuse them on multiple pages and maintain elements in one central place, or even make use of parent pages you created previously in other documents by importing them into your current document. In this recipe, we will look at how to do both of these, saving you from having to create new parents from scratch every time.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1.

How to do it…

To create new parents from an existing page or import parent pages, follow these steps:

  1. As this is a brand-new document, let’s start by adding some content. Go to the first double-page spread (pages 2 and 3) and add a title at the top of each page, along with any other design elements you want. In my case...
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