This is because guides are moved proportionally with the rest of the page. However, if I add a single vertical guide along the left edges of the objects before I change to portrait orientation, I get a much better result:
(In CS3 and earlier, you need to select the object first and snap the guide on one of the side or corner handles.) Then, when the guide moves, the object will move with it.įor example, in the image below, you can see I’ve added two frames to a landscape page (left) and then changed the orientation to portrait (right):Įven though Layout Adjustment is on, the objects are pushed off the page - InDesign can’t “manage” them because they weren’t touching (or very near) a guide. You can drag out page guides from your rulers and snap them to the edges of your objects. To make layout adjustment work for you, you need to position your objects next to guides (such as the margin guides), or position your guides next to objects! Layout Adjustment just sort of flails around with your objects unless they’re abutting guides. But here I want to explore the most important aspect of Layout Adjustment: Guides. Layout Adjustment has come up in previous blog posts, such as this one by Cari Jansen, where she talks about using it with CS5’s Page Tool to change the size of ads. And one of the best tricks is to make use of the Layout Adjustment feature in InDesign. However, there are some good tricks that can help the process. Let me be really clear about something: There is no easy way to redesign a landscape page into portrait, or vice versa. The black line along the right edge is a scroll bar.) (These images are from the nifty and new Scientific American Beginnings & Endings iPad app and are used here for educational example only. For example, these two pages both show the same data, and are laid out in InDesign: You can see this with a flick of the wrist when viewing most iPad magazines, of course.
One of the most pressing needs in publishing today is converting a document of one size to another - often even going as far as turning a portrait page sideways to landscape orientation.
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