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Prepress Guide
Preflight
Upon receipt of all the components of your job, our Preflight Specialists review your files to make sure all necessary components have been included, the disk is readable, the files properly constructed and that all instructions and requests are clearly understood.
Files To Send
Text & Cover PDFs
McNaughton & Gunn prefers to receive final PDF files for text. For instructions on how to create PDF files please click on the link, PDF Files, or contact your Account Representative for assistance.
Non-PDF Files
If you are not providing PDF files, then the text should be provided in Adobe PageMaker, Quark Xpress or Adobe InDesign format (application files).
Be sure that you have assembled all the elements of your job: the text, the art, etc. Also, please note that although we do accept application files, you will incur additional charges due to the fact that we must produce PDF files from the application files.
For greatest efficiency, providing files with larger page ranges is recommended. [Example: submitting a project consisting of one file of 175 pages vs. 175 one-page files.] A charge may be applied if we handle an excessive amount of files.
Support files
These include scanned images and art created on the computer in a program such as Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand or CorelDraw. If your drawing program does not create self-opening EPS files, please include the original file created in the drawing application. Please do not save scanned images as EPS files in Photoshop with halftone screen or transfer function options selected. Tiff images should also be saved without LZW compression.
Fonts
Screen and printer fonts used both for the pages and in the graphics must be included to image your job correctly.
For more information on file preparation please see the links below.
Preflight
Compatibility & Fonts
Creating Pages
Creating Covers
Scanning
Graphics
Working With Color
PDF Files
Electronic Transfers
Proofs
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