Key terms and page set ups

1. KEY TERMS & PAGE SET
UPS
Jo Lowes

2. SLUG & BLEED
• margins — the negative space around the inside
of a page, a safe zone for all content / text /
images
• bleed — used for print only, extra space in
addition to your page size that’s cut off when
artwork “bleeds” to the edge of the page, so you
don’t have any white border
• slug — extra space on the outside of your
document, different from bleed, used to show
markings or notes for the printer (commonly used
for printed magazines or newspapers)
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3. GRIDS
• grids / guides — the thin colored lines on your IND document that do not appear
on your final document, but are just used for aligning objects on your page or
showing where the margins are placed

4. PAGES
• facing pages — two pages shown side-by-
side, also known as a spread – used for
documents that will be printed and bound
• master pages —mini templates you can create
and use throughout your document for pages
that have repeated content on them, like a
page number or footer (they’re not part of your
page count)

5. TYPE SET UP
• character / paragraph styles — a pre-set of settings and formatting that can be
applied to a word, a line of text, or an entire paragraph in one click
• justification — alignment of either one or both edges of your text to either left,
right, center, left justify, right justify, center justify, or full justify

6. PARAGRAPH STYLES
• flow / reflow — how your lines of text continue
from one frame / text box to the next, from one
page to the next, and around other objects in your
layout
• overflow — when the amount of text in your text
box is more than the size of your frame and
overflows into a second text box
• widows / orphans — a single word left by itself
on a line of text at the end of a paragraph, or a
single line of a paragraph left on a page by itself at
the beginning or end of the paragraph
• page break — when a section of text is cut off and
the remainder is bumped (or reflowed) to the next
page
• line break — when a paragraph is cut off and the
remainder is bumped (or reflowed) to the next line
• frame break — when any part of a text box is cut
off and the remainder is bumped (or reflowed) to
the next text box / frame