When you are ready to send us your finished files, we strongly recommend creating print-ready PDF files, one for the text and another for the cover. Your job will proceed far more smoothly and quickly. You will also save money.

PDF stands for Portable Document Format, a universal file format developed by Adobe that preserves all the fonts, formatting, graphics and color of any source document. It allows a file to be read through the use of Acrobat Reader (a free program available from Adobe) regardless of the hardware or software platform on which the file was created.

To simplify our PDF Help area, we have created application specific guides for you to download or to view in a web browser. The guides will provide you with all the information you require to prepare your PDF files. Please select a program below for your information.

QuarkXpress

Adobe Pagemaker

View these guides using Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded for free if not already installed on your computer.

Note: If you are using Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher, or Microsoft Word, you may contact a Client Service Representative for assistance when creating PDFs.

To create a PDF, you will need a full version of Adobe Acrobat to generate a PDF from your layout application. For more information, you may go to Adobe Acrobat to obtain this software.