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In addition to navigating your document, let us take a look at a few ways to customize how you view your document in the layout view. I am going to choose View, fit spread in window to see the overall layout and then also under the View Menu, under the Display Performance category, you will notice that the default settings are typical display. That means all of the graphics are viewable but they are not real high quality. So for some reason, you want to see a very detailed view, a high resolution view of a placed image inside the layout, you can switch this to High Quality Display. It will take a moment to render the high quality graphics but you can zoom in again to 4,000% and see all of the high resolution images and all of their glorious details but there is a trade off to that.

When you choose high resolution display, the document will scroll and pan a little bit slower. On the flip side, you can also go to the View display performance menu and you can enable fast display. This will preserve the position, the area of all your placed graphics but InCopy will only show a gray box. This reminds you where your graphics are placed but if you are a writer or an editor and you do not really care about what the graphics look like. You can turn those off and the entire document will scroll and zoom and pan much faster than with a typical display. For the rest of this presentation, I will leave the display performance; set it to typical, so you are going to have typical experience.

One other way to customize the view of your document inside the layout editor is under view screen mode. Right now you will see that we are in a normal mode. What that means is, as you look at the layout inside of InCopy, you see everything. You see the text, you see the frame edges, you see guides, grids, base line grids, all this kind of ornaments and lines and borders and rulers that might be helpful to understanding the layout but it definitely it will not print in the final rendition. So that it disable those Choose View, Screen Mode Preview. This is a beautiful pristine view of your document virtually exactly how it is going to print without all of the clutter.

Now, all those rulers and borders and so on are important from a design perspective but when you want to see how your text is interacting with the rest of the layout without all the extra and use rulers and guides and grids and so on, you can just disable that under the view menu. To switch back to the normal working mode, just choose View Screen Mode and set that back to normal.

In addition to navigating your document, let us take a look at a few ways to customize how you view your document in the layout view. I am going to choose View, fit spread in window to see the overall layout and then also under the View Menu, under the... click to read more