Building your creative in Quark Express 4.1

(If you would like to skip this section, check here to download a "starter" document with the correct settings.)

Quark Express

  1. Click File on the menu bar
  2. Select New and then Document: from the popup menu
  3. Enter the height and the width that match your creative format (see what creative sizes are available). For postcards, choose Custom Page. For Letters / Flyers, choose US Letter.
  4. The orientation will automatically be set to Portrait or Landscape depending on your height and width.
  5. Margin Guides - set all to .25"
  6. Click OK.
  7. Depending on the type of creative piece you're creating, you'll need to insert pages by clicking Page on the menu bar and choosing Insert. Postcards will have 2 pages (front and back). Letters and Flyers will have up to 4 pages (2 sheets front and back).
  8. Type in the number of pages you want to insert.
  9. Design and build your piece to your specifications.
  10. Save your document.
  11. Keep in mind the reserved areas on the creative that are reserved for the postage permit and the recipient address.

Printing to a PDF*
  1. Click File on the menu bar
  2. Choose Print
  3. Choose Acrobat PDFWriter from the drop down Printer box
  4. Click on the Properties button
  5. Choose the Page Setup Tab
  6. Click the Custom button and enter the dimensions and margins of your creative. The Height and Width should match the entries from stop 3 above. The margins should be .25".
  7. Choose the correct Orientation. For postcards, it will be Landscape. For Letters and Flyers it should be Portrait.
  8. Graphic resolution should be set to 300 dpi and 100% scaling
  9. Click the Compression Options Tab
  10. Make sure that Compress Text and Line Art is checked.
  11. Make sure that ASCII format and Downsample Images are unchecked.
  12. Color/Grayscale Images should be compressed using JPEG medium
  13. Monochrome Images should be compressed using CCITT Group 4
  14. Click the Font Embedding tab.
  15. Check the Embed All Fonts box. This will cause all of your fonts that you used to be saved with your PDF.
  16. Click OK
  17. Select the Document Tab
  18. Check Include Blank Pages
  19. Uncheck Spreads and Back to Front
  20. Page Sequence should be All
  21. Registration and Tiling should be off
  22. Bleed should be 0"
  23. Select the Setup Tab
  24. Page Positioning should be Left Edge
  25. Orientation should be Landscape for Postcards and Portrait for Letters and Flyers
  26. Make sure that Copies is set to 1 and Pages is set to All.
  27. Click Print
  28. A Save PDF File As dialog box will appear.
  29. Browse to the directory where you want to save the file to
  30. Enter the filename in the File Name box.
  31. Click save to create your PDF file.
  32. This is the file you will upload to MailnetExpress - remember the filename and the location.
 
* You must have the full version of Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer to use the PDF Writing feature.

 

 

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