Gate fold leaflet - How to set up indesign document?

Question

There are no presets for creating a gate fold leaflet in InDesign. What is the best way to set one up? The size of the leaflet will be A5 when closed.

The attached image shows an example of what I'm after.

_{(source: cedargraphicsinc.com)}

Answer 1

2 page document with one page being the inside and other being the outside.

I'd set it up like this:

1. 2 page document.
   • Inside page and outside page.
2. 2 guides to divide each page in 3 sections ^{_{(the two dashed lines in your example image)}}.
   • It's only two pages, but I would still draw the guides on a Master page. Less work and they automatically become untouchable.
   • I would draw a rectangle with the width 4.25" to the left side and copy that to the other side. That way it's easy to just snap the guides to each side of the page. Then the rectangles can be thrown away.

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Or if you want to have each section as its own page you could do the following:

• In the Pages panel, either by right-clicking any of the pages or in the corner menu uncheck Allow document pages to shuffle.
• Then you can drag pages side by side.
• When you export you need to make sure the Export as is set to Spreads or if you print straight from Indesign you need to make sure Sequence is set to Spreads