Erik's question regarding formatting

["James Purchase" <jpurch@interlog.com>]

>Question: Is the page size correct for TAG?  Normally TAG prints 8.5 x
>4.25 inches, with 1/2" margins on either side.  This looks like it's meant
>to print out on 8.5x11 paper, and has a larger margin.

Yes, this time around it is (at least from my reading of what Mary told me
to do). I've traded a number of e-mail's with Mary McCaw over this issue. I
had initially told her that I would try my best to give her material as
close to "camera ready" as possible, i.e. I would take care to follow TAG's
rules for page size and orientation, font use and border widths. She had
initially told me to set things up in landscape mode, as each TAG page is
merely a folded over 8.5"X11" sheet.

This is what I later got from Mary.... each paragraph is from a separate
e-mail:

"The contest publicity in TAG will be in the form of a separate insert, the
pages will be in the normal portrait set-up as opposed to the landscape
format of TAG, and stapled on the top.  This should mean minimum work on
your part.  I would like to have the insert content by April 14th, and the
19th at the latest if this is okay with you."

"This afternoon I called Joel to give him the job and also to discuss the
best and most cost effective way to publicize the contest.  We decided on a
two-sided, stapled flyer (a booklet form would have made it much more
expensive).  This flyer will be inserted into the next issue of TAG."

"We use Times New Roman 10 as our main font. Headings are done in Arial 12
bold, and sub-headings in Arial 11 bold. Side margins are .5, and top and
bottom margins are .75."

So I assumed from this that if I used an 8.5" x 11" page size, in portrait
mode, with the margins and fonts as she specified to match with the rest of
the magazine, that everything will be fine. I expect that the "insert" will
not actually be bound (stapeled) into the TAG issue, but rather a set of
five separate pages, printed on both sides, collated together and then
stapled in the upper left hand corner and the whole thing folded over and
loosely placed inside of the TAG issue.

If I'm right in this, that would mean that the 6 pages of Guidelines will be
together on three sheets of paper (thru the magic of double sided printing),
and the Entry Form and Aquascape Information Form will share the two sides
of fourth sheet of paper, with the Photo Release being the last item to be
put on the fifth sheet. The other side of that 5th sheet would remain blank,
but I guess that people could use it for over-run for the aquascape info if
necessary.

Doesn't this make sense?

James Purchase
Toronto

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