Hi all,
These are questions related to publishing on MagCloud.
I'm not familiar with the print production process and its jargon.
My questions are about such terms (found on the MagCloud site), and about alternatives to Adobe InDesign; please refer to the information given here (after you sign in as a publisher):
http://magcloud.com/publish
Under step 2: "Make a PDF".
Q1: Under "PDF Specs:":
>Additional bleed: 0.125′′ on top and bottom edges, 0.25′′ on the outside edge, no bleed on the inside edge
I googled "bleed" and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_(printing)
Read the article there (but not the links at the end of it - yet; will be reading those).
But the info there is somewhat confusing, as it mentions several things. Specifically in the context of MagCloud, what exactly is bleed?
Q2:
>Pages: Save as multi-page PDF, no spreads
What are "spreads"?
Q3. Can any alternatives to Adobe InDesign be used to create PDFs for MagCloud? For example, can Scribus be used -
http://www.scribus.net ?
Q4. I saw somewhere else on the MagCloud site that it requires hi-res PDFs. What exactly are the specs of a hi-res PDF - is it a certain number of dots per inch or something else?
Q5. Any recommended resources (sites) to get more of an overview of print production topics and terms?
Thanks for all answers,
Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com