Create a bookmark with InDesign

A bookmark helps us to position ourselves in a book because it indicates the page where we are.

Create a bookmark with InDesign it is something is something really easy and it can be very helpful in our editorial designs. Get to create a bookmark professionally using the best program for editorial design, how do you think they create the numbering of the pages of a book? One by one? not at all, the process is practically automated and it will be very easy for you to do so.

Learn a very basic concept when designing a book or magazine, find out how to create a page numbering using the master pages de InDesign in a professional and very fast way. Learn a little more about him editorial design.

For create a bookmark the first thing we have to do is work on a master page, we will create a layout without content where we will place the text for the page numbering. We create a small text box for our bookmark, we can choose in this part the size and typography of this text.

We create the layout with a text box for the page number

After having the layout created we select (on the master page) our text boxes for the page numbering, once inside this text box we go to the top menu text / insert special character / bookmarks / current page number. With this option what we do is tell the program that that text box is going to have a page number marker.

The bookmark option allows us to create a page number

If everything goes well we would have to see within the text box a letter, this letter indicates that that text box has a special marker inside.

The next thing we have to do is move our master pages to the workspace, we will realize that when creating new pages these already have the page number entered automatically. This system allows you to number all kinds of editorial projects: books, magazines, brochures ... always using the same technique.

Number an editorial project It is something very easy to do but few people master it professionally, you can save time and be more efficient by avoiding possible errors when doing the numbering by hand.


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