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The Setup Panel

InDesign's Setup panel (see Figure 93-2) is likely the second panel you'll go to when printing a document. It includes similar choices to those on QuarkXPress's Document and Setup tabsletting you change paper size and orientation, page scaling and positioning, and thumbnails and tiling.

Paper Size and Orientation

The choices of paper size you have in InDesign depend on which choice you have made in the Printer menu:

• If you select a printer, the Paper Size popup menu reads Defined by Driver, which means that InDesign uses the current printer driver's default size. You can override this by choosing a different paper size, based on those specified in that printer's PPD file. Some printers also allow the Custom option, which we discuss below.




• If you choose to create device independent PostScript, no paper size is available because this PostScript file will be handled by post-processing software later in the workflow (like software for imposition, for example).




• If you choose PostScript targeted for a particular printer, you can also choose the paper sizes listed in that printer's PPD file, or Custom if that is available.

The Orientation feature defines how the page is oriented on the paper (or other media) it's printed on. For high-resolution PostScript imagesetters or platesetters, which image onto roll-fed material, the PPD may also allow the page to be rotated on the media by choosing the Transverse option.

Custom Paper Sizes

High-resolution imagesetters and platesetters can output pages of any size that can fit onto their roll-fed media. Therefore, their PPDs allow the creation of custom paper sizes. When you choose Custom from the Paper Size menu, you may enter any Width or Height value which you wish which fits on the paper. However, there's a much easier and smarter way! InDesign's default for both Width and Height is Auto, which automatically calculates the minimum paper size needed to output the current page with all marks and bleeds, reducing media waste to a minimum.

There are two other options which only appear when selecting roll-fed printers, similar to choices in QuarkXPress: Offset sets the distance between the left edge of the media and the left edge of the page. Gap sets the distance between pages. It's rare that you need to mess with these.

Scaling and Positioning Options

InDesign's Scale Width and Height option allows you to set page scaling. This is the same as QuarkXPress' Reduce or Enlarge option (though InDesign lets you scale from 1 to 1000 percent, much larger and smaller than XPress). Usually, you'll leave the Constrain Proportions option turned on, forcing InDesign to apply the same scaling to the Height and Width. However, non-proportional scaling is also possible, and can be useful for a specialized printing process like flexography. The Scale to Fit feature works exactly like the Fit in Print Area option in XPress.

Similarly, Page Position is equivalent to the same-named feature in QuarkXPress: It's useful when you are printing a small page on large paper; the default is printing on the upper left corner, but centering choices are also available. This is disabled when Scale to Fit, Thumbnails or Tiling is turned on (see below).

Thumbnails and Tiling

You can print several scaled-down pages called thumbnails on a single sheet of paper by turning on the Thumbnails option. Where QuarkXPress only gives you one size of thumbnail, InDesign allows you to select between 2 and 49 thumbnails per page. Use the Preview pane to see how they will fit on your paper.

You may also tile documents like you can in XPressprinting a large page in sections on a smaller paper sizeby checking the Tile option. There are three tiling choices: Auto works just like Auto does in QuarkXPress, automatically calculating the number of sheets to print on based on the Overlap value. (Overlap describes how much an edge is repeated between tiles.) Auto Justified calculates using the Overlap value as a minimum; larger overlap may be possible depending on paper size. Manual prints a single tile, just as in XPress: You set the upper left corner by positioning the ruler zero point.