Quick update: Sending proofs now
FWIW there were a lot of various small issues with the artwork. I go through everything and try to catch it before I submit it. I fixed a lot but apparently missed a lot as well. They came back and basically said almost every piece has issues and either I could go back and fix it all or we could pay for a minimum of half a day of design time for them to fix it. I missed some things but also I think there was some things that they would accept in the past but cumulatively it was just too much this time. It’s all fixed now so no worries. But I think I am going to address this for Round 12 by creating AI, PSD, PDF, and PNG templates and making those available.
Partly for my own record so that I can remind people in Round 12, the issues were mostly;
- Not turning off guidelines
- Not setting the correct size for the art board in AI files and limiting it to the artwork itself
- Not cropping to the artwork in PDF files
- Improper size and dimensions of PDF files. These were all over the place
- Lots of thin and narrow borders that don’t respect the bleed
- Artwork not respecting the bleeds in general
- Not converting text to lines/shapes in AI files