Jim Jordan's 40 Things To Do After The Yearbook Is Done

28. CREATE JPEGS AND SHARE YOUR BOOK Great yearbook staffs have always benefited from sharing copies of their books with other schools. Sometimes, however, financial concerns may dictate that you have few, if any, books to share. Another great way to share your work with other schools is to do it digitally. In the spring, I teach one of the editors to make a digital copy of each spread in the book. In InDesign, it is amazingly easy to do: • Go into the File menu and scroll down to Export. A screen will appear; toward the bottom, find the format button and choose JPEG. • Click the Save button at the bottom right, and an Export JPEG screen will appear. You will see the page range of the spread you have chosen. • Be sure the SPREAD button is ticked. Quality should be MAXIMUM. • The only decision you have to make is the resolution. Most presenters recommend choosing 144 PPI, which will maximize their resolution in PowerPoint or Keynote presentations. • Keep everything else in the default settings. Creating JPEGs of each spread is different in Online Design. The simplest way is to open the Spread Details window by clicking on the spread line (not the preview) on the home page, which gives you the largest preview in Online Design. Right-click and save the image. However, the resolution is not really sufficient. All text is blurry, for example. Another option is to open the spread and take a screenshot using whatever is native to your operating system. On a Mac, I suggest using the Grab utility.

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