Specs

Content That Works aims to provide you with the most options in the best possible formats to make using our content simple and profitable.

PACKAGE SPECS

Each print package from Content That Works is labeled with a publication slug and an 8-digit date stamp that refers to year, month and day of release.
Example:

  • holiday_20090819_print

In each package you will find everything needed to produce a fully designed print content package licensed from Content That Works, including:

  • Articles
  • Images
  • Page layouts
  • PDFs

Article, image and layout files also maintain a slug unique to them.
Example:

  • holiday_food.txt
  • holiday_food.doc
  • holiday_food.jpg
  • holiday_food.inx
  • holiday_food.pdf

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ARTICLE SPECS

Each Articles folder contains two subfolders of files:

  • Text: Articles in Text format
  • Word: Articles in Microsoft Word format

Article files contain all headlines, bylines, cutlines, credits and body copy associated with each particular story/layout.

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IMAGE SPECS

Each Images folder contains all images included in a given package in high-resolution (300 dpi) JPG format.

Images for weekly broadsheet packages are delivered in press-ready CMYK JPG format.

Images for special tab-section packages are delivered in compressed RGB JPG format and need to be converted back to CMYK format before going to press.

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PAGE & PDF SPECS

Each Pages folder contains three subfolders of files:

  • InDesign: Layouts in Adobe InDesign Interchange format*
  • High-res PDFs: Layouts in press-ready PDF format**

Each print package also contains a low-res reference PDF.

PAGES SIZES

Type Live Area Margin Full Page Size Grid
Broadsheet 10.25" x 21" .5" 11.25" x 22" 5 columms
Tab 9.5" x 10.25" .5" 10.5" x 11.25" 4 columns

AD SIZES

To make sponsorship simple and repeatable, CTW provides in-place ad positions in the following formats:

Broadsheet Ad Size

Ad Size
Bottom Strip 10.25” x 2.5”

Tab-Page Ad Sizes

Ad Size
Full Page 9.5” x 10.25”
1/2 Page - Horizontal 9.5” x 5.035”
1/2 Page - Vertical 4.66” x 10.25”
1/4 Page 4.66” x 5.035”
1/8 Page 4.66” x 2.4275”

*Adobe InDesign Interchange files are created in InDesign CS3 and backward compatible to InDesign CS2.

**PDFs are created using Abode InDesign CS3 and are backward compatible to Adobe Acrobat and Reader 5.0 (PDF 1.4).

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