When designing your templates, you should think about the construction of your document in terms of layouts and page sets. A Page Layout is part of the designing process and consists of the arrangement of content in a page. Layouts are used to control pagination features like: page margins, headers, footers, left and right side regions, and more. A Layout will define the extent of the side regions, specify the page margins, and control the overall orientation and dimensions of the template before you start adding content.

 

It is extremely important to take your layout into consideration prior to managing the content in your template. These layouts can be assigned to multiple page sets, applied conditionally, and much more. You can read much more about this functionality in the Pagination section.

 

Figure 1: A layout is adjusted to change the left side region color and increase the extent.