Page Thumbnails in InDesign
By default, the Pages panel in InDesign displays the page thumbnails vertically. Personally, I prefer to see them laid out horizontally. To change this, click the triangle in the top corner of the Pages panel and a sub-menu appears. Go to Panel Options… right at the bottom and uncheck the vertical option on the new panel that opens.
I also tend to change the thumbnail size to small icons.
Hello!
Do anyone know if there is possible to view all the pages in a document as thumbnails on the screen at the same time.
Very useful for sorting the pages.
In the old Pagemaker this function was possible.
Regards Lars
Hi Lars, yes, this is possible. Use the smal disclosure triangle on the top-right of the pages palette. Select Panel Options… From there you can set the size of the icons and use them as thumbnails.
Yes, I have tried this option, but I want to fill the hole screen with all the pages, not only a stripe with a few.
Sorry Lars, but other than choosing the extra large icons and resizing the pages palette, I don’t know of another way to view all the pages as thumbnails.
Hahahah, I just read the reference to Pagemaker post from one of your viewers. Wow. Those were the days, and they sucked. As much as I hate dealing with New Adobe stuff, and having to learn new things just as I finally got the previous stuff down, they really do deserve a tremendous amount of credit for the most recent iterations of InDesign. I haven’t even scratched the surface, but I love what it can do.
I do find my self reading your advice/tips quite a bit though, so thanks! Especially the horizontal thumbnails piece above. I must have forgotten how the heck to do that fifty times. Your info. pops up in Google immediately and is vastly superior to watching some third world video where it takes them ten minutes to cut to the chase…
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