Comments on: Custom Page Sizes in the New Document dialog box

By: chadthebad

chadthebad — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:14:39 +0000

I’m a little late to the discussion, but here are common page sizes here we use here at a small printing company. Just copy and paste away, and if anyone has any additions, post away.

A2 ENV 4.375in 5.75in
A2 Panel Card 5.5in 4.25in
A6 ENV 4.75in 6.5in
A6 Panel Card 6.25in 4.5in
A7 ENV 5.25in 7.25in
A7 Panel Card 7in 5.125in
#6¾ ENV 3.625in 6.5in
#9 ENV 3.875in 8.875in
#10 ENV 4.125in 9.5in
Business Card 3.5in 2in

By: Sacha

Sacha — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:16:54 +0000

Thanks David for the file, but my file says exactly the same. I’ve just added alle the DIN-formats to it which I want to show up in InDesign. But ID still ignores it … indeed very strange …

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:58:02 +0000

That is very strange. It is there in my version of CS3. Applications > InDesign > Presets > New Doc Sizes.txt. You can see what it says here.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:14:51 +0000

I don’t have the file in my presets folder either…I was going to bringit over from CS2 to CS3 but it sounds like Sacha tried that to now avail…

By: Sacha

Sacha — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:10:05 +0000

I know about the New PDoc Size File for a time now and at work with CS2 this works great but now I’m using CS3 at home with my new MacBookPro and there is no New Doc Size in the Presets Folder. I’ve copied the New Doc Size file into the Presets folder but InDesign does not recognize …

By: Dave Courtemanche

Dave Courtemanche — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:24:08 +0000

David,
Does CS3 do complex math features (10×3/2)? I know you can do this in Quark but not in CS2. Thanks for the tip Sandee!

By: SuperZ

SuperZ — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:19:23 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:20:00 +0000

Jessica, here’s a bit more on doing math in InDesign.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:06:54 +0000

Usually the people who think they know everything don’t…

By: Fritz

Fritz — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:02:13 +0000

I agree, this is a great tip. Even if it is something obvious, not everyone may know it.

Next you may show me a way to create a pdf without distilling;)