DESIGN DATABASE

HEX #53734c and lighter/darker tones of the same hue

Page and cover size: 7.00 inch (horizontal) x 9.25 inch (vertical)

Margins: 0.5 inches outside, 0.75 inches inside gutter

• NTR in the past has had issues where, when printed, our images have come out fuzzy/rasterized images. This has us come off as unprofessional & unedited as a university press. Use images as EPS, JPG, or PSD formats. Our printers have issues with printing PNG files.
• DO NOT use PNG raster files/images or save files to PNG. JPG photos are better than PNG for best print quality. When adding your branding marks use Illustrator files like ai, eps and vector pdfs. You can find vector eps branding marks on the UNT Branding Identity Guide website. https://identityguide.unt.edu/a-z-academic
• Photograph images, background images, and other images with continuous tones will usually print fine if they’re high resolution (300dpi) jpg.
• If images were created in Illustrator, they should be saved as AI, EPS, or PDF files. Then place it into your InDesign document as a link.
• From Canva, save as PDF Print for the highest resolution. In worst-case/last minute edit scenarios, just send me the high-resolution art by itself and bypass Canva if you want. Our printers can replace the art in their InDesign.
• Use HIGH RESOLUTION QR codes and high resolution NTR logos.
• Full bleed on front cover. Make sure your image goes beyond page trim size, out to the red line. See PDF attachment below for setting your bleed.
• When creating the whole book, link the images to the pages and then package the entire InDesign file. 
• Embedding images is optional on your part when using Adobe InDesign and Illustrator. When sharing either of these documents you will Package the documents and all links and fonts. See PDF Attachment below for instructions. This will generate a new file folder (to compress/zip) with your InDesign document, your document in IDML format, a PDF file, a Fonts folder, and a Links folder to send to printers.

Setting a Bleed in InDesign

Packaging and Zipping a File in InDesign

Easily carrying over a continuous text box: Set up your columns and fit empty text boxes WITHIN all margins. Copy the entire text you wish to format from its original document (whether that's 1 page or 12) and paste it into the very first text box column. You'll see that the text fills the column and cuts off at the end. Hover your mouse and lower it to the edge of the bottom right corner of this text box. There you'll find a small red plus-sign button. Click this and it'll give you a drag-and-drop preview of the text. Align and drop this into the next text box and continue the process from that column and the next until there is no more continuous text/red button. 

NOTE: Keeping your lines, images, and content boxes cropped neat and within the margin lines makes your work more professional and easier to review and edit - if in edit mode you're seeing several overlapping lines and hard to click/overlayered spaces, please work on cleaning & organizing this so your editor and our printers don't have to!

Line & letter spacing; Italics for when your font has no option for it: The properties tab on the right is your save-all for the finer details. Use this to save a little space on a poem carrying over a few lines into the next page. Sometimes the standard font is naturally too spaced out between letters so we have to lessen the stretch, but then the italics in the same piece are too close together. As a designer, it's your job to catch and enhance these small details to make the reading and viewing experience of the journal as seamless as possible.

UNT Digital Collections has been archiving past NTR copies. You can view them as they are uploaded here: https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/NTR/

Scroll below to publicity for access to NTR logos and previous designs, will upload ASAP.