MagCloud News
7 Oct, 2008
10:40 PM
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
Any questions? You can always talk to us at Get Satisfaction.
26 Aug, 2008
6:48 PM
Best of the Web? Us? by MagCloud
We're still in beta, but that didn't stop the folks at .net Magazine (UK's leading magazine for web designers and developers) from nominating us for an award! The .net Awards celebrate the best in web design and development and MagCloud is a nominee for Web Application of the Year. Voting is open now, so have your say! And thanks.
27 Jul, 2008
4:53 PM
International shipping by MagCloud
Our shipping is currently restricted to the United States, but that's not forever! We are actively working to open up the service to Europe too, and hope to share more details on this by mid-August. And for the other geographies out there, we'll work on getting to you too, as soon as we can!
22-Aug-2008 Update: Enabling shipping outside the United States is still a top priority, but we don't have an estimated time for when it will be available. We're working through the non-technical details as quickly as we can.
22 Jul, 2008
7:03 AM
Psst, publishers -- did you know? by MagCloud
We haven't trumpeted this loudly, but while we are getting our legs in Beta, publisher proofs are free + shipping. Per-page cost is nothing, you only pay the shipping. It won't be this way forever, but we're learning so much from our awesome publishers that we want to make sure it is easy to experiment, and get your magazine to be just right.
We only ask that you limit proofs to what you need; our general guideline is 1 proof at a time per issue. We won't be rigorously enforcing limits in the software, but regarding abuse: "we'll know it when we see it." Rest assured that proofs won't fly off the presses with no adult supervision :-). If you follow the guideline and there should be no worries.
Happy publishing!
16 Jul, 2008
5:06 AM
Where'd we go? by MagCloud
Our data center experienced some network problems this afternoon from about 4:30-6:00pm PDT, and during that time MagCloud was unavailable. There were no failures of our MagCloud servers or systems, and we don't expect any problems as a result of the disruption.
Our apologies for the interruption.
