Directions for turning in YOUR yearbook spread

When you finish your self designed spread you must submit your spread the same way you have done before for your magazine cover and your first yearbook spread.

Submitting your PDF by email; posting yourJPEG on your blog

Step 1: When you are done - you need to export a PDF from your InDesign document file (.pdf file extension) and email it to Mr. Doerr at david.doerr@austinisd.org or Ms. Fleming at Laura.Fleming-Holcomb@austinisd.org.

Finally, you must  convert the PDF version of your file into a JPEG (.jpeg file extension) and post it on your blog.

Here is how you do that:

You must have your Yearbook Spread open in InDesign (NOT photoshop)

Step 2: Exporting a PDF from InDesign directions:

• Go to File --> Adobe PDF presets --> Smallest File Size
• Rename your yearbook spread as follows: Last name_first name_MySpread_period #
• Make sure to save it in your folder (not your H-drive, not your S-drive, NOT the desktop, your folder)
• VERY IMPORTANT: You want both pages of your yearbook spread connected together as a "Spread." So when you see the "Export Adobe PDF" window open, you must click the "Spreads" button underneath the option for "Pages."
• Click "Export" (if any messages come up about outside the clipping area or anything else like that during the .pdf creation process, click OK)

Step 3: Submission Directions (How to turn it in)

1. Open your email (gmail, yahoo, whatever you use), compose new mail

2. Send your PDF to the appropriate teacher. See addresses above.

3. The subject line is: Last name_first name_MySpread_period#

4. Click attach file (it often has a paperclip looking item next to it)

5. Attach your yearbook spread - BE VERY CAREFUL and make sure to send me the one that is a .PDF (It will have a .pdf ending and the file should look like a little grey square) DO NOT SEND ME THE InDesign document which is purple and at the end says .indd.

6. Click send (or mail or whatever your company uses to send mail.

Posting your JPEG on your blog 

FINALLY  -  we want to post these on your blog. To do this you have to convert the .pdf into a jpeg file.

1. Open Photoshop

2. Open the .pdf of your magazine cover (NOT the .indd, it won't work)
3. When the .pdf converter pop-up box appears, click okay

4. File --> Save as

5. Change the format into .jpeg

6. Click save

7. Make sure you save it at the highest file size

8. If you get any other pop-up boxes, click okay 

9. Post it on your blog.