3) Checking your Publication and marking pages as ‘Complete’
We recommend previewing your publication carefully before creating your print ready PDF.
Go to the Flat Plan Overview.
Click on Auto Publish Options; a pop up window will display.
Click on Auto Publish; the Create Layout File pop up window will display.
Select pages to create, we would recommend you do this in 2 files if your magazine is over 80 pages as it does take some time to create and the files can be very large. The example below will create a PDF containing pages 1-20 of your publication:
If you use wrappers you may want to modify the start page number so that the page numbering in the footer matches the start page of your magazine after the wrapper.
If you click ‘Preview with trim’ auto-publish will create an onscreen PDF displaying the selected pages with a green trimbox as per the examples in section 2.3 and 2.4 (which indicates where the page will be trimmed by the printer.
Go through each of the pages and carefully check that no artwork that you want printed is running over (or very close) the trim box area. If you have amended any of the margin/footer settings, you should also check that all of the artwork on the page lines up.
TIP: The most common problem found during preview is page numbers appearing on top of complete artwork. Solutions for other Auto Publish Common Artwork Issues can be found here.
TIP: Have the PDF open alongside your flat plan and make changes to the flat plan using ‘layout’ as you go through the PDF.
It is good practice to mark each page that you have checked as complete. By marking your pages as complete, it will also automatically start creating the pages of publication's digital flip book for you. Pages that are marked as complete will appear in your digital edition, if they are not marked as complete, the pages in your digital publication will appear blank, with a grey x in the centre.
The notes here provide the instructions on How to mark pages as complete.
