Using this page as a pre-flight guideline before sending digital files to us, will help ensure that your file publishes exactly as you intend.

Please take a moment to read before your submit your files. If you have any questions regarding this page or sending your file, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for using RapidAd delivery!

Please note that the News-Journal and Volusia Pennysavers can only accept native macintosh files built with the following macintosh programs: Quark Xpress; Adobe Photoshop; Adobe Illustrator; Macromedia Freehand. The preferred format for ALL files is PDF.

What you should check for when creating your native document:

1. Is your ad Black and White or Color? Remember, we only use process colors on the press (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). DO not assign ANY pantone or spot colors.
   
   Color Ad - All artwork & color information has been saved as CMYK.
   B&W Ad - All artwork & color information has been saved as Grayscale or B&W Lineart.
   
   
2. Have you saved your images correctly?
   
   Images should be saved as a .tiff or .eps. No .jpg, bmp, gif or any other file types.
   All .eps files must have BINARY encoding.
   No .tiff files should use LZW compression.
   
   
3. Image resolution
   
   Halftones - For best quality scan images at 200-300 dpi
   Lineart - For best quality scan images at 600-1200 dpi.
   No art has been downloaded from the web unless it is Hi-resolution
   
   
4. File Information
   
   My MAC file is Quark; Photoshop; Illustrator or Freehand
   My file has been converted to PDF or EPS format
   
   
5. PDF Security
   
   My PDF file DOES NOT have security enabled.
   
   
6. Fonts included in your document
   
   Native Files - all my fonts are included with this document. I have included both the postscript and the screen version of all postscript type 1 fonts.
   I have not used True Type fonts in my document.
   For EPS or PDF files, I have embedded all of my fonts.