Green Leaf Media - Digital Publishing service provider

File Preparation & Specifications

These File Preparation & Specification Guidelines will assist and ensure an effortless digital publishing experience. The following information is the desired specifications for your files. If you cannot provide your files to these specifications, contact us for further help.

PDF's

Please provide your publication in PDF file format with the following settings:

• Supply: All pages in one (1) single PDF file
• Page Layout: Single pages (not double page spreads)
• Page Order: Pages must be in the correct order
• Page Size: All Pages must be the same size (Preferably A4)
• Quality: 150 DPI or greater
• Fonts: All Fonts must be embedded (no subsets, no outlines and no curves)
• Please avoid CID Type H encoded fonts

Audio

Please supply all music and audio files in MP3 format.

Video

Please provide video files in Flash 8 FLV format or alternatively, Quicktime format. For best results,
use resolutions between 320 x 240 to 640 x 480. If you cannot supply FLV files, we will convert
these files to FLV format, with default player controls when you hover over the video.

Flash Animations

Flash files will be presented on a layer above your existing pages, so therefore, please bear in
mind the following notes:

• We can accept animations in Flash 8 or earlier. We will need .swf and .fla files supplied.
• Please design your files so that a single .swf file is needed to play the animation, and not
  multiple .swfs and/or .as files
• We do not support animations created using SWiSH
• Please make sure there is no white space around the edge of the flash animation
• Please note that your animation will be sitting inside another flash application, and as such,
  the background colour defined in the property inspector will turn transparent, and show the
  PDF content underneath your flash files. To avoid this, put a single colour object on the
  lowest layer of your flash file to form a canvas.
• Please set your flash files to a frame rate of 24fps
• Avoid any Actionscript that can affect the host application, such as _level0, _root, and _parent
  references, or global functions like setTimeinterval
• There should be no links in the animation we are given, unless this is necessary, as these links
  will not be picked up in the statistics package. We will normally create the links overlaying the
  flash, so that they can be tracked
• There is no file size limit on animations, but for loading purposes, the files should be as small
  as possible
• Images should be set to lossless compression instead of photo compression
• Filenames for Flash animation files (SWFs) should not include special characters such as
  brackets, question marks, commas and spaces. Underscore characters are ok to use.
• In case we need to edit your FLA file, please use one of the following options when dealing with fonts:
  - Add the font in the FLA library and then use the reference of the font in the scene and not the   font directly
  - Provide the fonts along with the FLA file
  - Convert the fonts to vector shapes, such that there are no non-system fonts within the Flash   file