You know how this works, in the paper world, that a little approval stamp gets added on top of the document and people sign off on it to show their approval and they date it. Here, I created one just on the fly but I've seen ones that use their logo and so on. Some of my clients, like to use the Slug area for a little approval stamp.
HOW TO CREATE SPREADS IN INDESIGN CC 2015 PDF
And, I'll show you what this looks like in a pdf in a minute. Now, every time that I make a printout or export to pdf, there's an option for me to include the Slug area, and, so this will always have the modification date of when this printout or this pdf was created. I'll just drag out a text frame, let me zoom in a bit, and go to Type, Text Variables, Insert Variable, Modification Date. And, inside of this area, I might put something like a variable for the current date. What that has done is add a half inch of area at the top of every one of my spreads. So, I'm gonna add a half inch slug, 0.5 in, and click OK. You can see it surrounding the spread trim area. You can see this document already has a nine point bleed set up. Twirl open Bleed and Slug, if it's not showing already. So, to do that, I'll go to the File menu and choose Document Setup. And, I want to go ahead and add a Slug guide to this. For example, here I have a magazine set up as spreads. You don't always have to do it right when you creating a new document, you can add a Slug guide to an existing document. But, it is something that goes and travels along with the document. Of course it's not actually going to be printed, because it'll be trimmed off outside the trim edge. The point of using a Slug guide is that anything that I put in InDesign in this paste board area bounded by the Slug guide and the trim edge of the page, can appear in a pdf or in a printout. So, I'm typing one and then 'in', to override the default's pica measure, and you can see that it has created a guide one inch out from the outer edge of my page. Let me turn on Preview, and I'll do the Outside, and I'll say, let's add one inch.
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These four fields are not locked together, so you can put in a separate amount of Slug guide for the outside versus the top, for example, of your document. The Slug guide is the area that most people ignore, that I think that you can really use. So, if I typed, under Bleed, p9, for nine points, and press tab, then they would all get filled in. And, because the Bleed guide is usually the same all the way around, this set of fields is locked.
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If you go down here under Bleed and Slug, you may be very familiar with the Bleed guide, that's that red guide that gets drawn outside of every page, that helps you to drag images and other objects to bleed them enough for your printer's specifications.
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And, you'll find that in the New Document dialogue box. One of the most overlooked features in InDesign, in my opinion, is the Slug guide feature.