When creating your production files please follow the guidelines and specifications listed below. We want to ensure that your project is produced with the highest quality graphics. It is important to us to make your experience working with GS Images both enjoyable and efficient. If you have any questions or need more information please call to speak to one of our design specialists.
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Supported Software Programs
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
- Quark Xpress
- Adobe Indesign
- Macromedia Freehand
- Corel Draw
- Adobe Pagemaker
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Acceptable Media
- CD
- DVD
- USB Hard Drive
- Zip Disk
- 44, 88 or 200 MB Syquest
- 1 GB Jaz
- 4mm DAT (saved in Retrospect with appropriate catalog)
*Diskettes, Zip & Jaz disks can be supplied formatted either in PC or Mac format. Sysquest disks must be Mac formatted.
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File Specs
Documents need to be spec’d to the FINAL SIZE of the exhibits.
Fonts: ALWAYS send us your fonts unless you are changing your fonts to outlines in Illustrator, Freehand or Corel Draw. If in doubt, send your fonts. We must have both your screen fonts and your printer fonts. Reminder: don't use system fonts that don't have corresponding printer fonts. We recommend using Adobe postscript fonts. Any text set in either Truetype or Multiple Master fonts must be converted to curves (outlines).
Photographs: need to be scanned to yield 150 DPI (or PPI) at final size for clarity. All scans need to be saved as RGB TIFF files.
Line Images: We suggest that the scans be done in gray scale at 1200 DPI at final size. The image then is converted in Photoshop from gray scale to bitmap mode at 600 pixels per inch with the method option set at 50% threshold. This process makes it possible to control any negation or fill in of line weights.
Send all fonts and imported or linked elements.
Also send elements that may be embedded within imported or linked elements (example: if you have an imported picture in your Quark document that is an EPS file and that picture has text in it that has a different font than what you are using for the rest of the document). If you do not include that font's screen and printed fonts, then you will get a substitution for which we will not be responsible and may not even catch.
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Proofing
Send us a printout of your file.
We actually recommend that you make this proof from the actual file you are sending us, not from the original file on your hard disk. What we see on our screen is not always what you saw on yours. We are working with the latest and most sophisticated software and hardware available. Your software/hardware configuration may not equal exactly the same look as ours. Colors especially will not look the same from your monitor to ours.
DO NOT EXPECT THAT THE COLORS YOU SEE ON YOUR MONITOR ARE GOING TO MATCH THE COLORS YOU SEE IN THE FINAL PIECE.
Also, do not expect that the colors you see on your printout will be matched. All printer devices and monitors give a different look. The printout you send will aid us in determining if all your parts are there and if your text/fonts are behaving as you expect. Without a printout we are at the mercy of your file.
It is also helpful to send us a list of all the files included on your disk showing file name and application. Please indicate to us on this list which file you want us to print from.
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Finally
We ask that you double check the disk(s) you are sending us. In addition to insuring that both the screen fonts and printer fonts for all fonts used and all nested and linked files are there, the page layout program should be updated or linked to OK status. Go here for our shipping address .