Templates

Templates:
For your convenience we have provided templates in various applications for you to use for laying out documents. The guidelines represented on the templates are there for practical use and can be adjusted if necessary. There are some basic design rules that we recommend everyone follow,

1. Bleeds
2. White space

Measuring like a printer:

Points and Picas

For all practical purposes there are 6 picas to an inch, and 12 points to a pica. Therefore 72 points to the inch, technically speaking it is supposed to be 72.27 to the inch but for practical purposes just about everyone rounds it to 72. Some applications do allow for 72.27 to the inch.

Layout and design artists have long used points and picas to define the sizes of print projects for several reasons. The main reason is that it is very easy to define a very small measurement when using the points and picas scale. Another reason for using it is that it is very easy to do fractional sizes. For example 1/3 of a letter size sheet is 51x22 picas. The decimal inch equivalent is 8.5x3.666666666666666666666. Using points and picas

Usually, pica measurements are represented with an upper-case "P" and points are represented with number of points before a lower-case "p", for example, 5p represents “5 points”, and 6P2p represents “6 picas and 2 points”, and 1P1 represents “13 points”, which is converted to a mixed fraction of 1 pica and 1 point.

Publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress represent pica measurements with whole-number picas left of a lower-case "p", followed by the points-number, for example: 5p6, represents 5 picas and 6 points, or 5½ picas. Where CorelDraw denotes the difference with a “,” 5,6 pt would be 5 picas and 6 points.