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Making the margin wider after the whole document is created

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March 30, 2022
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Hello,

I have a question about creating a book in Indesign today.

Last year I made a A5 size book in Indesign, and now I want to make the margin of all pages (except a few pages that have a design on the front edge) a few milimeter wilder, so it will look more relaxing.

I am ok that the font size and images will shrink a little, but my question is where there is a way to do this globally. I went to "Adjust layout" and changed the margines to bigger number but nothing changes in the document. Could someone tell me what I am diong wrong or missing?

Many thanks in advance.

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Acai06Author

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I have another issue...

By scaling down the whole document, the image and the text frames are not matching with the baseline grid, I initially thought this was ok, but now I'm experimenting with changing the baseline grid scale down to the same percentage.

This is fine for most pages except the TOC, where each entry now skips a line each.

From:

to this:

How do I fix this, so each entry goes back to how it was without skipping a line?

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defaultl2dcn3pi5o8u

Inspiring

It would make sense to adjust your baseline grid to match the new proportions, but, personally, I would entertain the idea of doing away with it where needed.

Edit > Preferences > Grids (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Grids

Acai06Author

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You mean not to bother that text frams and image frames don't snap to the original grid line?

I would very much like that idea...

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defaultl2dcn3pi5o8u

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File > Adjust Layouts

change the margins but don't check the auto-adjust checkbox there

down under "Options"

Check Adjust Font Size, Set Font Limits - start with 6 pt min, and make small adjustments to see how it affects your documents.

Start with Adjust Locked Content checked

Mileage will vary, because layout work for print is fairly rigid depending on how you made the files.

Acai06Author

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Thank you! and that was actually what I tried first but tje content didn't shrink at all... Did it again, following your step one by one, but still the same size.. what am I maybe doing wrong..?

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Did you align the frames to the border guide lines? That is what you have to do. If not, you have to go from page to page and change the text frames manually. I recommend to do it now correct: align them to the border guide lines.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

You can go to the master/parent pages for the document pages you want to change and click layout > Margins and Columns, reset the margins, click the Enable Layout Adjustment box, and say OK. Frames snapped to the margins will resize, BUT your text will not change size, so it's going to reflow and probably go into overset or add pages. You should probably do this on a copy...

There really isn't a good way that I can think of to scale frames unevenly (adjusting only one margin) so the text would shrink. You can Place the pages of the current file into a new one (as linked images) and scale them as they are placed with the script at Releases · mike-edel/ID-MultiPageImporter · GitHub but this will change all the margins.

Acai06Author

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Thanks, and sorry how do you "reset the margins"? I thuoght I did accordingly but the content didn't shrink... wondering what I might have done wrong...

Peter Spier

Community Expert

You reset the margins by changing the values in the dialog fields to whatever you want.

You might not see much change, depending on how much you move the margins. Check the last frame of each threaded story for oversets (or turn on Preflight) after adjusting the margins.

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