3) Checking your Publication and marking pages as ‘Complete’
We recommend previewing your publication carefully before creating your print ready PDF.
Go to the Flatplan 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 a PDF containing the green trim marks as per the examples in section 2.3 and 2.4. Once complete a PDF containing the selected pages will be displayed.
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 AutoPublish Common Artwork Issues can be found here.
TIP: Have the PDF open alongside your flatplan and make changes to the flatplan 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 your digital version of your publication 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.
Each page can be marked as complete is 2 ways:
By clicking on the Red X on the bottom left of the page on the flatplan or
From the flat plan, select the page number to bring up the page layout settings and toggle the Layout Complete switch at the bottom of the page, so it turns green > Click Save.
Pages marked as complete, will appear with a gold border on the flatplan overview and a green tick will appear in the bottom left corner.
