Accessing Preferences
- Log in as an adviser or editor → Settings → Design Styles → Preferences → Edit.
Preference Options
- Page Margins: adjust margin guides if needed
- Most schools leave these at the defaults.
- Columns: set the number of columns per page and spacing between them
- Leave it set to 1 if you don’t use columns.
- Page Grid: a graph-paper background for aligning elements
- Turn grid on to have it appear by default when a page opens.
- Set grid size: 1 pica, ½ pica, or ¼ pica
- Swiss Grid: activates the specialized grid for the Square One design approach
- Automatically adjusts margin settings to match the grid.
- Snapping: controls whether objects snap to the grid lines
- It’s recommend to keep snapping on because it makes aligning elements easier.
- New text frames: by default new frames fill with placeholder text
- Change this if you want empty text frames as the default instead.
- Adobe Image Editor: on in all books by default
- Deselect this here if you want to disable the integration
- Spread Control: choose if you want to control pages individually or as one spread
- You can adjust this setting for individual pages on your ladder.
- Staff Catalog Access: by default staff members can view catalog, but not activate assets
- Change this setting if you want to enable staff to activate assets from catalog.
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