Subtitles of the Movie

Creating Job Jackets and Tickets Part 3. Think of Job Jackets as a big envelope that contains all of the projects files, assets, sticky notes, color swatches and everything else that a job might require. In short Job Jackets are like digital representations of the Job Jackets that you are likely using in your shop right now. All Job Jackets include a default ticket but you can create other tickets as well. In this movie I will show you how to create a Job Ticket and evaluate your project. You'll need a Job Jacket, if you do not yet have one, turn to part 1 and part 2 of this movie. Let's get started by returning to the project we started. Click the Title of the Job Jacket you created in movies one and two and then click this Disclosure Button. Here is a list of tickets contained within this jacket. Click this New Ticket Icon and double-click the Title of the resulting ticket to change the name. The resources listed in the Resources Pane at this time exist only in the Job Jacket. We must move them to the ticket so that we can use them to generate and evaluate a project. Click the Title of a resource that has Content, then from the resulting list in the Display Pane, choose In Ticket from the pop-up menu. Do this for each resource that you want to include in this ticket. The ticket will be used to define the project parameters, including the layout size, the margins, the colors, the style sheets and more. To ensure that we create the project as instructed we create rules to define parameters at a more granular level. The font types, the picture types and more. For my ad I also want to include my Layout Specification that I created so in the Resources Pane I click on Layout and then I click the new icon. I'll set the parameters for the layout here. When I get to the Layout Specification Field, I'll choose my ad layout from the drop-down menu. Click Save, click Close. Since I'm starting a brand new ad I'll choose New, Project from Ticket. Click on the title of the Ticket from which you'll construct this project and then click Select. The resulting page is set up as I had defined in Layout Specifications, it's eight and an eight by ten and seven eighths and the margins are set to show the live area. Using a library I will drag in my ad components, my Job Jacket will check these items with the same reliability as if I had manually constructed the project. If you already have a project created it's not too late to attach this ticket. You can do this at anytime in the process. Do this by opening the project first and then choosing Job Jackets from the File Menu and Length Project from the Fly-Out Menu. Navigate to the ticket and click attach. Now that you know how to create a project from a ticket or attach a ticket you're ready to use it to ensure that your project is meeting your intent. From the File Menu choose Job Jackets, evaluate Layout. Click Evaluate, any deviation from the guidelines set forth by the Job Jackets are listed. Click on a Listing and then use the Showcase Button to display the errant item or usage. In the instructions and details pane the corrective measures may be listed or any instructions that the Job Jackets Creator provided. You may choose to evaluate manually at any time but there are also preferences that you can set up to automatically invoke this feature. If you're on a Mac go to QuarkXPress Preferences, on a PC choose Edit Preferences and scroll down to the Job Jackets Title. Click the title to display the Preferences Option, use these check boxes to predefined when an evaluation should happen. You can choose none, one, some or all of the intervals. Job Jackets can be created by anyone and shared with anyone. That means that whether or not you know a lot about the output device, the style sheets, the color specifications or the colors, you can benefit from a Job Jacket. Maybe it will be one that has been created by your output provider and given to you as a guideline in project creations. Maybe it's one that you create for yourself that has a series of style sheets, colors, and layout specifications that are to be used for our clients' projects. In either case Job Jackets are the vehicle to convey the intent and evaluation is the method for insuring that you comply or at least knowingly do not comply with that intent.