First things first.
Decide on a skeletal frame that you are going to dress. I’m a New Scientist fan and I love the publications tone and layout. This in mind I borrowed their style. I also wanted the DPS to fit in a woman’s magazine such as ‘Essentials’ or ‘Easy Living’ magazine, that share the same dimensions as New Scientist.
In order to do this I vandalized a NS DPS with a marker pen.
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Indesign allows you to take control of all aspects of the DPS layout by inputting measurements into the new documents set-up. If you have something specific in mind the measurements are necessary to make sure columns and page sizes etc are as required.
- A- The top margin of the page. This is the gap between the column head and the top of the magazine page.
- B- The outer margin. The side margin that runs along the outside edge of the page columns
- C- The bottom margin. The bottom page gap that the columns base sits along.
- D- The Gutter. The space between columns sitting side by side.
- E- The column width. The width of the pages columns.
- F- The column length. The height of the column that text will potentially sit in or images positioned on.
- G- The inside margin. The space running down either inner-side of the pages. This space should allow for enough space for when the publication is bound to prevent any content being distorted and bound together.
- You will also need the page’s overall height and width.
My measurements where as follows:
- Outer/ inner/ bottom/ top margins 12.7 mm
- Gutter 4.5 mm
- Page Width 224 mm
- Page Height 269 mm
