How to make jpegs of your pages

What we're after:

Images of your pages should be rgb jpegs, no larger than 400 x 700 pixles in size with no spaces or "/" in the name, which ends with ".jpg". Simple.

First, you need to get an image of your page.

If you are able to make a pdf of your page with Acrobat Distiller, that would be your best bet.

Another option is to make an eps of your page. Quark has "save page as eps" under its file menu.

The method of last resort is to take a screen shot of your page. Zoom out to fit the entire page on your screen. Although this will work, it gives the poorest quality image of your page.

And finally (I almost forgot this one) you can always take photos of your tearsheets, save as jpeg and skip the rest..

If you have Acrobat 5

If you can get them into a composite PDF file, using Acrobat 5 you can simply do Save As... and choose JPEG Files from the Save As Type drop down menu.

You can then set your resolution, colour mode and compression level.

Rasterizing a PDF in Photoshop can sometimes be a lengthy process (and sometimes requires fonts to be loaded). Acrobat 5 is quick, and uses the fonts right from the PDF. No fuss, no muss. (Sent in by Robert Jones, The Toronto Star)

If you don't have Acrobat 5, rasterize the pdf or eps by opening in Photoshop.

When you try to open a pdf or eps of a page in Photoshop you will get a dialogue box that looks like this:

Set the size in pixels. 400-450 pixels wide is a good size for a vertical page. The resolution can be 72 dpi for web use and the color mode must be rgb.

Finally, save image as a jpeg.

If you have a recent version of Photoshop you can use the "save for web" option under the file menu. You will get a dialogue box that will allow you to try different levels of compression.

The simple way is to flatten the layers and "save as" a jpeg. Set the image quality/compression to a medium setting. Newer versions of photoshop have a save for web option in the file menu which allows you to play with the compression and see the results.

Naming your file

Web servers do not like spaces or most puntuation in a file name, so run everything together and leave out the "/". Finally remember to add the ".jpg" suffix so that the image will be recognized as a jpeg.

Wrong: my best page/ sports
Right: mybestpagesports.jpg

Now you are ready.

Once you are logged in, you can upload pages from your welcome screen or go to the post pages link on your red menu bar.