The Advertiser Index screen provides the settings to customise the advertiser index. It's made up of 2 parts the Directory of Advetisers pane and the sidebar.
The Directory of Advertisers Pane
From here you can customise the following settings to create your advertiser index.
- Font family, Font style & Font size
- Ability to add dots
- Height (spacing) (you can leave this blank for default calculation)
- Column width (you can leave this blank for default calculation)
- Top margin
Example customisation
Using the index may take a bit of playing around with at first to get used to it, especially with your own unique customistation settings. Once an index PDF in generated, the settings are saved ready for use in your next issue.
For full detailed instructions on how to create the index including settings up client sections/categories and master pages click the link below:
Creating the Auto-Publish Advertisers Index
Placing the index on the flatplan
The first step is to place the index on your flat plan. Click ‘Select Index Page’ in the top centre of the page.
This will bring up the ‘Select Index Page’ > From here click the page on the flatplan where you what the index to be placed.
The message ‘Index Page Created’ will briefly flash at the top of the page in green. The Select Index Page button will now show (1 selected).
The Generate PDF button - is used to generate the customised index PDF.
The Export to Text button - is used to download a simple text file detailing the client name and the page number.
General Settings
The index can be ordered by either ‘Sections’, ‘Main Category’ or ‘All Categories’. Choose one by clicking the toggle button to turn it green.
Headings Settings
The headings settings will then appear as below, ready to be customised.
Customisation settings
For an index with multiple columns. Click the 'Break On Headings' toggle switch to turn it green, (see image above). Next, click in the box beside 'Break On' and select one or more headings eg ‘Education’. This tells MagManager on which headings to start a new column when creating the final index pdf.
TIP: A 2 column index will 'Break On' one category eg 'Education
A 3 column index will 'Break On' two categories eg 'Educaton' and 'Hair, Health, Beauty & Fitness'
A 2 page index with 3 columns will 'Break On' Five categories. The third category will mark the start of the second page of the index.
If a section is particularly large you may wish to break on a client name rather than the heading, to do this look for 'Break On' under the Content section and select one or more clients from the drop down list eg ‘Sugar and Spice’ - see image below.
You may want to generate your pdf before choosing which sections/categories you want to ‘break on'. To do that click on the blue ‘Generate PDF’ button on the top right of the screen.
This will let you see the position of your sections/categories and then you can customise it accordingly.
Important: Pay attention to the name of the last client in each section/category to ensure they are listed on the Index and have not been cut off after you have selected the sections/categories to 'break on'. As the content of each section/category does not wrap into the next column.
The Sidebar - Navigation Menu
This allows you to view the following screens:
- Flat Plan Overview - Displays a condensed view of the flat plan.
- Manage Adverts – Displays the artwork of the booked adverts for the issue.
- Manage Content – Displays the artwork of the booked content for the issue.
- Quick Layout - Provides an overview of all the content & adverts on the flatplan and the main settings of the layout for each page.
- Advertisers Index – Contains the settings to create an advertiser index.
- Content Index – Contains the settings to create a content index.
- History – A record of changes made on the flat plan.
- View Flat Plan - Click to access the main flat plan screen.
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