Indesign Viewing Gutter Lines

If you accepted the defaults for page orientation and size margins columns and gutters when you created your indesign creative suite 5 document and then find that you need to change them you are not alone.

Indesign viewing gutter lines.

Use margins and column guides to position content. Make the margins twice as thick as the gutter place a ruler guide in between. Hi there i m trying to layout an illustrated children s book by importing 8x10 image bleed and layering text on top. Ruler guides are different from grids in that they can be positioned freely on a page or on a pasteboard.

The problem is that my margin gutter grid lines only show up behind the image this makes it really hard to place text. Create a spot rgb swatch to denote fold lines in the slug. Open the pages panel window pages and select the thumbnails for the pages you wish to change. Page guides which appear only on the page on which you create them or spread guides which span all pages and the pasteboard of a multiple page spread you can drag any ruler guide to the pasteboard.

Enter values for top bottom left and right margins as well as the number of columns and the gutter the space between columns. Here is an example on an a5. You can create two kinds of ruler guides. Some people use gutter to describe the space between 2 columns other use it to describe the space between two pages.

Choose layout margins and columns. Fortunately indesign cs5 makes these changes easy. Indesign uses the first definition in margins and columns so i m going to guess that is what your question is about.