PDF folio/cv spec?
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- Projectile
When applying for jobs, everyone wants you to send them a pdf. But what spec do I use?
They will primarily view it on a screen, but will probably also print out for top people in the company to flip through, so do I create it at 1024x768 or A4? (..or 950x650 to be safe?)
...and do I have it at 72dpi or 144dpi? 300dpi is obviously too big to email, many of them even set a 2mb limit.
okay just saw this while trying to google this:
"I have run my own studio for a number of years now and won't even bother to look at a designers portfolio if it is over 1 MB."
wow. So I guess 72dpi? ...but that'll look godawful printed. Another guy said 98dpi. isthere something to that number? there doesn't seem to be much of a standard out there...
- scarabin0
i'd probably go around 150, medium quality. having a 1mb limit for applicants seems like a pretty arbitrary, stickler kind of thing to do. i can only imagine the other strange rules i'd have to live by working for that guy
- medium quality will look shit - better 72dpi max quality.fadein11
- Yeah he'll probably force me to use corel draw because "switching between adobe applications take up too much time"Projectile
- oneof the pdf presets is 144dpi, I was gonna go with thatProjectile
- do that but don;t use medium quality unless you want v.manky pics.fadein11
- doesnotexist0
i do print specs on tabloid using 72DPI images. images are usually hi-res, and the print specs allow the type to stay vectors. i never convert colors.
if there's a file size limit, i'll pick a few pages and send that, while linking to a full-size PDF in the CV and including a URL.
- no hi-res i guess, but large 1280px wide or more imagesdoesnotexist
- *notdoesnotexist
- freedom0
5MB is about right. You can't get good any reasonable quality with 1MB
I don't think people print things out, but it's helpful to make it so they can and also in a size that looks familiar.
- utopian0
5-7MB max.
- ESKEMA0
Do as doesnotexist said. Choose a smaller sample to keep it light and link to a more robust printable file if they are interested in it.
- Asking a very un-techy secretary to click something that takes them somewhere else online that they then have to print?Projectile
- I guess it would work if it was a designer who was trying to convince his boss he needs youProjectile
- animatedgif0
"I have run my own studio for a number of years now and won't even bother to look at a designers portfolio if it is over 1 MB."
LOL!
- yeah, these days up to 10MB should be acceptablemonospaced
- "for a number of years" meaning a few monthsdoesnotexist
- »now« meaning 1997pressplay