File Requirements

From

Video/Audio

Video must be uploaded in FLV video format. Audio must be uploaded in MP3 audio format.

Flash Animations

• Please supply animation as Flash 6. Any ActionScript in Flash files must be written in version 2.0. You must supply both .swf and .fla files.
• Make sure there is no white space around the edge of the Flash animation. Use a transparent background to define the correct area of the animation
• Set the Flash file to a frame rate of 30 fps.
• For animations that shouldn't loop, please “action script” it as such.
• Any action script used in the animations cannot use the root reference. It must instead use parent references.
• If you wish links to be tracked via BlueToad’s statistics package, there should be no links in the animations we are given. We will create the links so they can be tracked.
• There is no file size limit on animations, but for loading purposes, the files should be as small as possible.
• Images should be set to lossless compression instead of photo compression.
• The size of vector-based animations will be variable based on the uploaded PDF. They will retain the same pixel width as the original. Zoom factor 1 = 960px wide. Zoom factor 2 = 1100 px wide. Zoom factor 3 = 1225 px wide. Nonstandard pages can have smaller widths within the publication. To get the dimensions of a specific page, go into the Replace Page dialog in the setup app for that particular page. That is how you can find out what size the SWF needs to be.
• Any user-interactive elements (e.g., buttons) must use the following two functions to disable and then re-enable the container SWF’s control over interactions:

1. _root.overButton(); (to deactivate the container SWF’s control over viewer events)
2. _root.outButton(); (to reactivate the container SWF’s control over viewer events)

For example:

btn_mc.onRollOver = function(){
  _root.overButton();
  …
}
btn_mc.onRollOut = function(){
  _root.outButton();
  …
}
stop();

PDF Requirements

• Image Resolution - Have minimum resolution of 200 DPI. (Higher resolutions are encouraged.)
• Fonts and Transparency - Contain embedded fonts and flattened transparencies.
• Printer Marks and Page Bleed - Do NOT contain bleed, gutter, or crop marks. (What you see on your PDF is what your digital edition will look like.)
• Reader Spreads - Contain individual pages, NOT cover layouts or other reader spreads.
• Page Sizes - Have pages that are all exactly the same dimensions as all other pages.
• Page Parity - Have an even number of pages for the total publication.
• Masked Text - Have no masked text. Hidden layers will be brought to the top layer during the vector conversion process. Please remove all masked text in your document if you would like to use the vector converter.
• CMYK Colorspace - Use a CMYK Colorspace. (PDFs with RGB Colorspaces are not acceptable.)
• Selectable Text - In order for our system to search the issue, we must be able to select, copy & paste the text. If you use text outlines or raster images and you cannot select, copy & paste the text then your issue will not be searchable.