Abridged Version of Specifications for Digital Art

(For a more comprehensive set of instructions including supported fonts, etc., please go to either http://hyper.ahajournals.org/misc/ifora.pdf or http://cjs.cadmus.com/da/index.asp)

Note: If you are unable to size your digital art appropriately or provide the correct resolution, we encourage you to send a PDF created from the original source file of the figure (i.e. In the program that created the figure, 1) go to your print menu, 2) change printer to Adobe PDF, and 3) save file as the MS #-Fig 1, etc.).

Below is a list of applications that are best suited for image assembly. The list is broken into three separate categories; beside each category is the suggested file format.

Image Editing Applications

Adobe Photoshop	TIFF, EPS, JPEG, PPT
Corel Photo-Paint	TIFF, EPS, JPEG, PPT

Drawing Applications

Adobe Illustrator	TIFF, EPS, JPEG, PPT
CoresDRAW	TIFF, EPS, JPEG, PPT
Deneba Canvas	TIFF, EPS, JPEG, PPT
Macromedia Freehand	TIFF, EPS, JPEG, PPT

Page Layout Applications

Adobe Pagemaker	EPS
Adobe InDesign	EPS
QuarkExpress	EPS

Resolution Reminders

Type of Figure	DPI Resolution	Color Mode
Line art (B&W)	1200 dpi	Bitmap/monochrome Color Mode
Gray Halftones	300 dpi	Grayscale Color Mode
Color Halftones	300 dpi	CMYK color mode
Combination halftones	600 dpi	CMYK or Grayscale Color Mode

Please Note: An image should be saved and submitted in the size at which it will be printed. For optimal results, scaling, rotation, cropping should be done using an image editing program, rather than a page layout program.

Multipanel figures. Make sure that any multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) are assembled into one file. Rather than sending four files (Fig1a, Fig1b, Fig1c, Fig1d) the four parts should be assembled into one piece and supplied as one file.

Scanned Images. Before placing images in programs like Illustrator, FreeHand, Canvas or CorelDRAW the images should be checked for the following:

• All placed art should be in TIFF or EPS format
• The resolution should be at least 300 dpi
• The color mode of the TIFF/EPS should be either Monochrome (bitmap mode), Grayscale or CMYK. The CMYK mode is used for color figures and Grayscale/Monochrome for black & white.
• Crop and size images properly before importing so that masking, scaling or rotating is not necessary while in the drawing program.