Part 3 of 3: Job Jackets and Project Files
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Click Layout Specifications in the resource list.

 

Click the New Item button to add a new Layout Specification, and name it "Poster layout spec".

Expand the Poster layout spec, and define the following settings (if it's not mentioned, leave it at the default value):

Page Count: 1
Page Width: 24"
Page Height: 30"
Margins: 0.75"
Binding Type: None
Bleed: 0.25"
Color Standard: CMYK
Spot Colors: None
Total Inks: 4

With Layout Specifications still selected in the list of resource categories, create a second layout specification with the following settings:

Name: Magazine ad spec
Page Count: 1
Page Width: 8.25"
Page Height: 10.75"
Margins: 0.375"
Binding Type: Any
Bleed: 0.125"
Color Standard: CMYK
Spot Colors: None
Total Inks: 4

In the left pane, click the arrow to the left of the Movie Campaign job jacket to expand it.

Click the Default Job Ticket to select it, and then click Layouts in the list of resources.

Click the New Item button twice to add two new layouts to the default ticket template.

Click the first new layout item and rename it "Poster".

 

Expand the Poster layout to view the settings.

 

Make the following choices:
Job Description: New Movie Promo
Medium Type: Print
Proof Output: Composite CMYK
Layout Specification: Poster layout spec

Click the second new item and rename it "Magazine Ad". Define the following settings:

Job Description: New Movie Promo
Medium Type: Print
Proof Output: Composite CMYK
Layout Specification: Magazine ad spec

Note: If you click Cancel in the Job Jackets Manager, you get a rather confusing message asking if you're sure you want to cancel and lose all of your changes. In this one dialog box, you have to click Continue to cancel your work and close the Job Jackets Manager.

Click Save to close the Job Jackets Manager.

 

This exercise was designed to show you several things:

• First, it is relatively easy to add resource items to a job jacket or ticket.
• Second, by first adding an output setup, then creating the job description and layout specifications, and then calling those elements in the different layouts, you should begin to better understand the inter-relationships between different resources.
• Third, you didn't add all of the possible resources and settings to the job jacket. As you entered in the project instructions, this is the early comp stage of a project so this is not an unrealistic scenario.
• Finally, it took 26 steps to create a largely incomplete job jacket. In other words, this is not a quick process. However, once you've created a complete job jacket, you can duplicate it for similar projects or copy the resources into other job jackets. You don't have to reinvent the wheel every time you start a new job.

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