Once you have finished designing your card’s front and back, it’s time to print them out. They are very small so you can fit a bunch of them on a sheet of paper. This part of the assignment is to create the sheet and cut it out, producing 16 tickets.
We will be printing these on 11×17 paper. You DO NOT need a bleed for this file, but a .5 inch margin might help. Create a file in InDesign that is 17 inches wide and 11 inches tall. You do not want or need Facing Pages. Just make one page for now.
Of course, the first thing you should do is to OPEN ONEDRIVE and SAVE your work with an appropriate name:
To create the frames where the tickets will go, use the Rectangle Frame Tool (press F)
Click on your blank page somewhere
Create a frame that is the size of your ticket: 4 inches by 2.5 inches
Put that frame in the top left corner. If you’ve set up your margins correctly, it should be easy to place in the proper spot, but you can (and should) check your Properties panel to make sure that the frame is placed at X: .5 in and Y: .5 in
You should see a frame in the top left corner:
Now switch to the Selection Tool (press V) and click on the Frame
Go to File/Place (Ctrl + D) and find the ticket that you designed. Place the InDesign file!
MAKE SURE you turn on Show Import Options!
When you turn on Show Import Options it will allow you to choose between your two pages (front and back) and will allow you to see the Bleed.
You will import each page separately. Make sure the Pages panel says Previewed Page
and make sure you can see the front (page 1)
You also need to go into the Options box and Crop to: Bleed bounding box
You’ll press OK only when your Place box looks like this:
You should have one ticket properly placed in the top left of the page. If you’ve set everything up correctly, the ticket should fill the frame.
Go back to the Pages panel.
Right click on Page 1 and choose Duplicate Spread
That will make a copy of Page 1
Now you just need to place Page 2 into the Frame. Use File/Place or Ctrl + D and replace page 1/the front with page 2/the back
Now switch to the Selection Tool (press V) and click on the Frame
On your keyboard, hold Alt and Shift, then click on the frame and drag a copy beside it
Click in a blank spot on or just off of your page
Drag out a box to select both of the Frames
On your keyboard, hold Alt and Shift, then click on the frame and drag a copy of both tickets beside the other ones
Now that you’ve got one row filled, you can click in a blank spot and drag a box to select the whole row
On your keyboard, hold Alt and Shift, then click on the frame and drag a copy of both tickets BELOW the other ones.
Do this until your page is filled:
Go back to the other page and do the exact same thing:
Once you’ve got both pages filled, you should be done!
Save your work!
Remember to PACKAGE and hand in
Make sure you have no errors and no missing Links:
Once you have that packaged folder handed in to your OneDrive folder, let me know that it’s time to print your sheet and you’ll get to cut them out!