Adobe PageMaker has been a favorite tool of many printers and typesetters ever since the beginnings of desktop publishing. If you've used PageMaker to create your documents, Wes-Tex can easily handle your files. To make things easier for all of us, there are some quick steps you can take before sending your files that will get the ball rolling along smoothly and avoid delays.
First, open the file(s) you or your customers created and look everything over to make sure it looks right on the monitor. Print the file on a laser printer as well. If there are no problems, you're ready to move on!
Save for Service Provider
The next step is gathering everything together for shipment to Wes-Tex, and luckily in PageMaker that's a fairly simple process.
First of all, you need to create a new folder where you can place all your work. This should not be the same folder where you save your original Pagemaker document. Once you've created a new folder for this job, go on to the next step.
From your menu in PageMaker, go to Utilities , select Plug-ins , and then choose Save for Service Provider . (At this point you may be asked to save your work before continuing with Save for Service Provider. If so, go ahead and save the document, but do not save it in your new folder.) This convenient little utility not only collects the primary PageMaker document and all your graphics and fonts in one folder for simple transport, it "preflights" your file to make sure you still have all the necessary graphics and fonts loaded.
Now click on Preflight Pub and sit back while PageMaker does the work.
When the process is complete, if you see checks beside the "Fonts" and "Links" categories, you're set for the next step. If not, that means something's missing. If you don't see a check, select the Fonts or Links tab (whichever doesn't have a check) and you will be given a list of what 's not there. Before going on, fix this problem by finding the missing elements.
It's also a good idea at this point to check the Printing and Inks tabs to make sure the dimension and number of colors is correct.
When all is well and ready to go, select the Package button at the bottom left of the screen. This pulls everything together in one convenient folder for copying to transportable media or e-mailing us directly. You'll be prompted by a Save As screen. In this window, before saving your work, check the "Copy Fonts" option and then select the "All" radio button beside it. Next, click on the box next to "Update links in source pub before packaging." Now all you have to do is give your file package a name and save it in the new job folder you created earlier. Note: A warning pop-up screen regarding copyright on Adobe fonts may come up. If it does, simply click on "OK" and move on--Wes-Tex is authorized to use Adobe fonts.
By the way, when you save the package, you'll see a file called "Report" that's now included in the folder. It should be sent to us along with all the other files in the folder.
When you're ready to send us your files, please see "Final Steps".
Files Saved as .EPS
After finishing the document, many people choose to turn it into an EPS graphic, which allows the file to be imported into other applications as if it were any other picture.
However, we'd rather you not save your files this way as it actually can make things more difficult for us here at Wes-Tex. If you've already done so, though, that's OK--we can still handle it. Just be sure to also include all Postscript and TrueType fonts or you'll be hearing from us with news that your order has been delayed because we don't have everything we need.