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• Information for authors - the process of submitting an article.
• Layout & fonts - description of the standard layout and associated fonts.
• PDF creation - instructions for the generation of PDF for electronic and paper publication.
• Information for New Volunteers - A guide to help new volunteers familiarize themselves with the team’s workflow.

Creating PDF

• Click on the PDF icon at the top of the menu bar or click on "Export" and then "Save to PDF"
• Then follow either the electronic use or printing sections given below.

PDF for electronic use

• Embed all fonts except FreeSans Bold. FreeSans Bold should be outlined, rather than embedded.
• Select:
  • Compression: Lossy JPG / Medium
  • EPS Graphics: 600 DPI
  • Resample Images: 600 DPI
• Create separate PDF files of each page. (The pages are joined together at the end and uploaded to our mirror sites and to issuu.com.)
• Find the article number by checking the article record in MMS.
• Rename the pdf files using article number_page number.pdf
• Upload the pdf files to the MMS article.

PDF for printing

Create separate PDF files of each page, using "-pub.pdf" as a file name suffix.

• Click on file, Export, Save as PDF...
• The following dialog is displayed, nothing on the general tab should need to be changed, but the settings should be as the screenshot below.

NOTE - The screenshot below is wrong and will be updated shortly, Output one file for each page must be checked and the compression method must be Automatic/Maximum.

• Next click on the fonts tab and click embed all fonts except FreeSans Bold. FreeSans Bold should be outlined, rather than embedded.
• Ensure that the colour tab settings are as below:

• Ensure the prepress tab settings are as below:

• Click save