Pre-Production Checklist
CONTENT
- Soft-cover wrap-around over perfect bound OR accordion-fold structure
- Inner Cover
- Half title page or title page spread
- Introduction (written by student)
- Table of Contents
- Infographics or Data Visualization: one historical timeline (if appropriate), and 2 additional
infographics (or 3 if timeline not included) - Guts: minimum two sections, four spreads each (as appropriate)
- Bibliography
- Image Credits/Sources
- Colophon
- Inner Back Cover
LAYOUT COMPONENTS
- Pagination – page numbers/folios in place
- Running “heads” or “feet” (left = Editorial title; right = section title)
- Contents Page – page numbers are correct
- Linked imaged
- All images have effective PPI above 150 (See under Link Info)
- All images are JPGs, PNGs, EPS, AI or PSD — all CMYK or all RGB + Grayscale
- Refine your paragraph rags
- Spell-check
- Check/fix widows and orphans
- Proper hyphenation
- Include Sources and Photo Credits
- Images bleed at 0.125″ (“pull” out bleeds in your documents; export PDF “with crop marks and bleeds”
- No small text running through gutter
- Consistent margin space
- Consistent paragraph width & alignment
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