Tower Christian School Yearbook Site (for the 2010-2011 Yearbook)
Submit a PDF file
Be sure to submit a PDF file. This is another issue that often trips up the most computer savvy people. People are often bewildered when they send a word processing document to a friend and nothing lines up where it was supposed to be, fonts are different, and the document looks nothing like it does on their own system. They forget that not everyone has the same fonts loaded on their systems, and that different printer drivers can reformat an entire page. Those problems and others led Adobe to develop their PDF file format, so that documents could travel between systems without the headaches. If you do not already have a PDF printer driver (that produces PDF output files instead of printing a paper copy) there are several free options available on the internet. There are also free services on the internet that will convert a submitted word processing document into a PDF file. You will definitely want to do that conversion to PDF yourself, because you are guaranteed to spend more time working to get it to look to your satisfaction than the printer will.
When working on producing your PDF output, keep in mind that the final product will be printed on a high volume black and white printer. There is simply no need for a single page of black and white text and pictures to generate something larger than 2-3 megabytes in size. The printer will never achieve that level of quality in the final product. If your page is producing a PDF larger than 2-3 megabytes, you need to consider tuning the process to reduce the “quality” of the output. Again, this is for your own benefit. If left to the printer to reduce the size, they will not use the same care in the final format that you will. Your best option is to work at reducing it yourself so that you can see what your page will look like. A single page 15 megabyte file can look awesome displayed on your computer screen, but look absolutely horrible once reduced and printed on a high volume black and white printer.