Can you disable the drop shadow that appears around the artboard in Indesign?

[Guest]

Can you disable the drop shadow that appears around the artboard in Indesign?

Sometimes is appears that there is a black stroke on the blank indesign artboard.

Apparently this bothers some designers? Just wondering is this a preference and is there a way to disable this?

[Steve Werner]

Are you referring to the tiny drop shadow on the right and bottom of the page (highlighted with red arrows)? The answer is NO, there is no way to remove it. It does not print.

[Guest]

Yes, does not bother me but to some of the designers would like to disable?

[jane-e]

As Steve said, it is not possible. You can put in a feature request to Adobe here:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

~ Jane

[Steve Werner]

Rob's suggestions are the best. Some beginning designers may not know that there are other view modes. (As a teacher of beginning InDesign students since version 1,  I've never had a student make that request.)

[rob day]

Set the View>Screen Mode to something other than Normal.

[Peter Spier]

While changing the view mode disables the drop shadow, it also hides the paseboard, which I bet will bother the designers even more.

[rob day]

Normal Screen Mode has the drop shadow:

Bleed Screen Mode shows a page trim line and the bleed :

Preview Mode has no drop shadow and hides the bleed

[rob day]

Also, the drop shadow serves a purpose—it makes clear which guide is the page trim.

So here there are margin, trim, bleed, and slug guides relatively close to each other—the trim is the most important of the 4 guides—the others are relative to it—and the drop shadow makes it easier to discern:

[GPGW]

Using InDesign 2023 go to Preferences > Guides and Pasteboard, set Preview Background to White; set View to Preview and you lose the drop shadow.

Works for me when laying out large-scale signage.