Guys I'm looking for some help on this: I have become editor of a hobby journal for radio enthusiasts, which involves producing a monthly publication of between 30 and 48 pages including covers. Compiling and writing copy is not a problem, but production has me a bit outside my comfort zone. I think we are going to use Mixam for printing circa 70 copies, the rest going by email so no issues with them. Mixam have a downloadable pdf template showing their bleed and quiet areas on each page. How do I use that template? Do I just ensure that the marginds on my draft are at least as wide as the total in that template?
As it's mainly text with some illustrations, I have currently got my draft in MS Word and of course can export from there as pdf to upload to Mixam.
Is it as simple as that? The cover outer and inner pages are just the first two pages in my Word document.
I'd really appreciate some words of experience please? Then one of these days I'd love to join in the zine exchange if I can put together a suitably themed collection of images.
Thanks