Fonts Accepted Adobe Type 1 Postscript fonts. Bitstream Type 1 Postscript fonts. We cannot guarantee successful output using any other font manufacturers.

Disks Accepted Zip CD ROM.DVD,DVD Floppy is not recommended due to the high failure rate.

Naming Convention The ad files must be named: Virgin Islands Daily News insertion order # followed by .eps . For example: 12345678.eps

Ad Size The ad document must be built to the correct size according to this rate book.

Color space CMYK only. No Pantone spot, RGB, DCS or Index. (Please see color specs in this book for further info)

Hard copy printout All disks must include a B&W or Color proof as applicable

Label the disk Label the disk with advertiser name and return address.

Questions? Contact the Virgin Islands Daily News Digital Ad Processing Center at 340-774-8772 ext 343

The Virgin Islands Daily News recommends Ilustrator .eps as the preferred file format

Adobe Acrobat Distiller job options:
-Compatibility Acrobat 3.0
-downsample color: 200 ppi compress JPEG Medium-Low
-downsample grayscale: 200 ppi -compress JPEG Medium-Low
-downsample bitmap images to 600 ppi compress ZIP
-Embed all fonts
-Turn OFF default setting convert -CMYK to RGB in advanced settings.
-Send only one ad per disk

Macintosh applications supported though not recommended
-Quark 4
-Photoshop

Disk Organization All screen and printer fonts used in the ad should be placed into a folder named Fonts. All graphics and art used in the ad should be placed into a folder named Art. One ad per disk

PC Windows application supported
Adobe Acrobat PDF

FTPIf you are able to prepare an Acrobat PDF, use postscript fonts and have internet access you can FTP your ad to us. Call 340-774-8772 ext 343 for instructions.

E-Mail NOT ACCEPTED Ad material is NOT accepted through EMail.

Graphics or text sent in as a supplement to an ad being built by the Virgin Islands Daily News
-Graphics Saved as tiff or eps format
-Line Art 600 ppi when used at 100% -Greyscale - 200 ppi when used at 100% - shadow set to 75%
-Color - CMYK 200 ppi when used at 100% - CMYK total ink density 240% Allow for 30% dot gain on press
-Vector Art - Illustrator or Freehand - outline all fonts
-Colors defined as CMYK
Naming Convention Art must be named: Virgin Islands Daily News ad number followed by the file type as the extension. For example: 12345678.eps or 12345678.tif.
Add a, b, c, etc... after ad number for additional art elements. For example: 12345678b.eps or 12345678b.tif.

Text Saved as text only (plain ASCII text - no formatting)
Naming Convention Text must be named: Virgin Islands Daily News ad number followed by the file type as the extension. For example: 12345678.txt or 12345678.doc.