Next, you'll create a third master page for placeholders for the text and graphics that will appear in your articles. By creating placeholders on the master pages, you can ensure a consistent layout among articles, and you won't need to create text frames for each page in your document.
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For Name, type Placeholder. |
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For Based on Master, choose B-Footer, and then click OK. |
Notice that the C-Placeholder icons display a B in each page in the Pages palette. This letter indicates that the C-Placeholder master is based on the B-Footer master. If you were to change either the A-Grid master or the B-Footer master, the changes would be reflected in the C-Placeholder master. You may also notice that you cannot select objects, such as the footers, from other master pages unless you override those objects. You'll learn about overriding master-page objects later in this lesson.
The first placeholder will contain the title of the article in a rotated text box.
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To center the left page in the document window, double-click the left page icon of the C-Placeholder master in the Pages palette. |
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Select the type tool ( |
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Type title part xxx. |
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Triple-click the text you typed in step 3 to select all the characters. |
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Click the Character palette tab (or choose Type > Character). Select Trajan. The Trajan font family has only capital letters, so now the text you type appears in all capitals. |
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Double-click to select the word “TITLE” (and the space after the word). Then, in the Character palette, for Size, select 36 pt from the pop-up menu. Then select the words “PART XXX” and select 60 pt. |
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Select the Paragraph palette tab and click the Align Center option. |
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Select the selection tool ( |
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Drag the rotated text frame down so that it snaps to against the top of the right column guide in the far left column. Then drag the center handle on the bottom of the frame to stretch the frame to the lower margin of the page |
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Click a blank area of the page or pasteboard to deselect, and then save the document. |
You have now created the text frame placeholder for the title of your article. Next, you'll add two graphics frames to the master pages. Similar to text frames, graphics frames act as placeholders for the document pages, helping you to maintain a consistent design.
Two tools can create rectangles: the rectangle tool and the rectangle frame tool. Although they are more or less interchangeable, the rectangle frame tool—which includes a non-printing X—is commonly used for creating placeholders for graphics.
Creating a guide before you draw makes it easy to position the graphics frames.
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On the View menu, make sure that the Snap to Guides command is checked, or choose it now. |
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Drag a ruler guide from the horizontal ruler to the marker at 36 picas on the left master page. |
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To make sure that the guide is at the 36-pica location, select the selection tool ( |
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Select the rectangle frame tool ( |
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Draw a frame in the upper area of the left page so that the frame covers the area from the top edge of the page down to the horizontal guide you set at the 36-pica mark and spreading across the page from the vertical guide at the 12p0.6-mark to the center of the spread. |
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Choose File > Save. |
You'll now add a colored background for the title bar and another one across the top of the right master. These elements will then appear on any pages that you assign to the C-Placeholder master. This time, you'll use the rectangle tool instead of the rectangle frame tool because you'll give the frame a fill.
You have added placeholders for the title, graphic, and two background blocks for the C-Placeholder master pages. To finish the C-Placeholder master, you'll create the text frames for the story text.
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Select the type tool ( |
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Choose View > Fit Spread in Window. On the right master page, drag to create a text frame four columns wide and six rows tall, snapping to the guides as shown. |
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Select the selection tool ( |
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Choose Object > Text Frame Options. Under Columns, type 2 for Number, and then click OK. Each of the main-story text frames will include two columns of text. To make the text flow from one text frame to the next, you will thread the frames. |
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Click the out port in the lower half of the text frame on the left master page. Hold the pointer over the text frame on the right master page so that it changes from a loaded text icon ( A. Out port |
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Save the document. |