Restaurant Menu in Ilustrator - Tips please

Posted 09 January 2013 - 11:51 AM

Hi all, I am a newbie with Illustrator, I used Fireworks for many years to design when Noah was a boy. Since joining here I have slowly used Illustrator to produce only winning design, Saving Fireworks design as Ai format and adjusting/reworking slightly.

I have an outside DC contract for Restaurant menus for one of my website clients I design for, I decided to go straight into Illustrator instead of creating in fireworks and saving as AI then having to slight adjust many elements. Has anyone got any tips on such things as bleeds etc, I have there old menu but only in PDF, I opened PDF in illustrator to give me the size they used, I just need to make sure my bleeds etc are correct and any other tips anyone can share.

My ai file is 300dpi and in CMYK to start, should I be going higher in my DPI?

Thanks in advance.

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 01:17 PM

Im guessing your using images in the menu, so 300dpi is more then enough. Considering your not using thumbnail size images
I dont use AI so there i cant realy help sorry....but this might
Publishing a Multiple Paged PDF Document Using Illustrator | Vectortuts+

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 10:12 AM

Thanks Elijah, I think I have most of the knowledge already reading that tutorial, some good pointers in it though so it was good, client is happy so far ,
I have high res images yes (lots of deep etching still to do), it's a good point, many people forget about that kind of thing.

Thanks a lot

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 11:25 AM

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Posted 18 January 2013 - 06:04 AM

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Posted 18 January 2013 - 08:39 AM

@ Happy GD I have linked the images, It did it auto, so when I took it to be printed for a sample Lucky I had it in PDF. I onlt took the AI file and not the images, It's fun learning

@ JonG303, I have in-design, and usually use it for this type of stuff but I am wanting to learn illustrator more for many reasons and this was a perfect opportunity to learn alot (which I have) with this application.

I am finalising the menu layout/design today, I should hopefully have all 800 sheets printed over the next few days, the client is extremely happy.
Once the menu is finalised I will try upload or link it in the showcase forum, thanks for the little bits of help everyone It's been fun. AI rocks!

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Posted 18 January 2013 - 11:08 AM

Ohh yeah, unlike InDesign there's no native package and preflight in Illustrator, so sometimes even I forget to include the images but for the most part I just embed them if the file size is easy to manage. And yes please it would be interesting if you showcased your work!

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Posted 04 March 2013 - 05:09 AM

Hey,

We had the restaurant Menu launched over the weekend, client is so happy with it, shame they didn't want any images of food in the menu though! I uploaded to my portfolio.
thanks for all help and tips with this guys!

Edited by InspireIT, 04 March 2013 - 05:19 AM.

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Posted 05 March 2013 - 12:58 PM

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