INDD Documents

This chapter describes the editing options for INDD documents.

Note

When creating the template, the designer chooses which options are available to you while editing the document. The designer may allow very different editing options, depending on the template. As a result, not all of the editing options described in this chapter are available in each document. If you have questions or cannot access editing options, contact the designer.

When you open an INDD document in the customizing wizard, six editing steps are displayed for you:

For an HTML template, four editing steps are displayed (see HTML Documents).
You can access the Customizing wizard when you close the document editor.

  • The Document Properties: you choose the basic document properties such as the document name, the specified locale, the branch affiliation, and the validity.

  • Variant: If you have set up variants for a document, then you select a variant while you create the document. If necessary, you can change the variant again afterwards. The variant can affect the appearance, content, and the editing options in the document.

  • Document Size: templates can be designed to allow you to change the document size for your document. For example, you can then create folding flyers in different sizes from one template.
    If this is available for your document, you set the document size already while creating the document. If necessary, you can change the size again afterwards.

  • Document Structure: this section describes how to change the structure of your document if you are permitted to do so.

  • Customization: this property is a serial letter function. With a template for mass customization, you can create multiple documents in which the variable components are filled with data from an Excel file. Typical use cases include address data for a letter or personal data for a business card.

  • Data From Data Objects: this section describes how to integrate data from the Marketing Data Hub module into your document, if you are permitted to do so.

  • Texts and Images: in this section, you learn how to edit the texts and images of the document.

  • Displaying Boxes in the Document: the designer can allow you to transform boxes. In this section, you can learn which transformations you can use.