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For the Designers: Getting Started by MagCloud

Now that you have the content for your magazine, you'll need to lay it out and create your PDF. First thing's first: you need to set up your document. MagCloud accepts PDFs that are 8.5" x 11", and trims them down to 8.25" x 10.75". The exact dimensions can be found on the MagCloud website and in the MagCloud Publisher Guide. However if you'd rather not set up your document yourself, we've done it for you in the following templates.

Important to Note: the Adobe^® InDesign and Quark files have bleeds extending beyond the page, but the other programs don't allow this. Instead, the Adobe Photoshop^® templates have guides set up and the remaining templates have mirrored margins set to show the bleed area on an 8.5"x11" page. Keep in mind that anything placed within these margins will be trimmed off and not appear in the printed magazine.

Click the program name of your choice to download a template and get started on your design:

- Adobe^® Indesign CS3 (.indd)
- Adobe InDesign^® CS2 or CS (.inx)*
- QuarkXPress
- Adobe Photoshop^® Left-hand Page (.psd)
- Adobe Photoshop^® Right-hand Page (.psd)
- Microsoft^® Word 2007 (.docx)
- Apple^® Pages
- Scribus (see www.scribus.net for details)

*you may need to update your CS or CS2 software on the Adobe website to open interchange (.inx) files created in CS3

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