To create a digital edition, you must upload a PDF to the system, where it is converted for view on desktops with the Flipbook interface, and mobile devices with the mobile interface.  Once uploaded, your PDF becomes an "Issue"

You can get to the step of uploading a PDF in a few ways.

Step 1A - From the Welcome Screen

• Click on the Upload a New PDF icon in the welcome screen

Upload Issue - From Welcome Screen

Step 1B: From the Manage Titles/Issues Screen

• No matter where you are in the system, click on Titles/Issues in the horizontal menu bar
1. From manage titles screen you can click on the "Upload PDF" Tab, then select a title (see Upload Issue - Manage Titles/Issues Screen image below)
2. Select a title first then click on the "Upload PDF" button in the manage issues section (see Upload Issue - Manage Titles/Issues Screen image below)

Upload Issue - Manage Titles/Issues Screen

Step 2 - The Upload Issue Screen

Complete the fields as indicated on the Upload a new Issue Screenshot below:

1. Select a Title
• A parent title is ALWAYS required to upload an issue
• If you chose #2 in Step 1B above to get to the upload a new issue screen, your title will already be selected here
• Otherwise you must select an existing title in the dropdown menu OR
• Select "quick add Title" from the dropdown menu, and enter a title name in the popup window, and click "add".  That new title will then be created with the standrad title settings and will be available for selection in the title dropdown menu. (you can always edit the title at a later time after the issue upload is completed)
2. Name your issue
• Enter a name for your issue (examples: May 2011 Edition; Tuesday, August 6, 2011; Special Edition; 2011 Financial Report; etc)
3. Choose a Publish Date & Time
• Activate as soon as processing is complete:  Issue will immediately become live and accessible by the public
• Choose a date and time to activate:   Issue will automatically become active at a future date/time
• Select the day, month, year, hour, minute and am/pm that you would like the issue to go live on
• With this option the issue will be assigned a status of "future pub", and can only be viewable by the account holder when they are logged into the system
4. Auto Link (OPTIONAL)
• Select an autolink job to automatically create interactive links during initial processing
• Default website/emails job is always available here and will recognize embedded font/text in standard website and email formats and create links
• Any other previously created autolink jobs for the title will also be available here for selection to apply at initial issue processing
5. Processing Option (OPTIONAL)
• Activate Sharpening Filter:  Check this option if you have very fine text that you want sharpened for view on small mobile devices OR the legacy image based Flipbook 2.0
6. Publish on Mstand.com digital newsstand (OPTIONAL)
• Select this option if you would like your issue to appear on the Mstand.com digital newsstand to be accessible to the Mstand.com user community
• Select the Main and Second categories, sub-categories and Publishing Country(up to 3) you want your issue to appear under on the Mstand.com newsstand
• Check the Adult Filter option if your material is for adults only
7. Choose your PDF File
• Click Choose File and select the PDF for upload from your hard drive
8. Click on Upload
• Click on Upload and your PDF file will begin to upload to our system
• DO NOT NAVIGATE AWAY FROM THIS PAGE OR CLOSE YOUR BROWSER WINDOW UNTIL FILE IS FULLY UPLOADED
• You will see this message until the file upload is complete

Upload a new Issue Screenshot

Step 3 - System Processing

Once you reach this step, the system has completely taken over and you can feel free to navigate around to other pages using your browser.

The system must now analyze and extract all components of the PDF so it can be rebuilt for the files displayed on the Flipbook and Mobile platforms.

Step 4 - PDF processed and Issue created

Once processing is completed your issue has been created!  You can now begin formatting, enhancing and promoting your new issue!

Full Processed Issue View

 IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Always be sure to review your issue within 12 hours of upload and delete the issue if there are any major problems, mistakes, omissions or quality concerns
• Do this and you will get your Upload back so you can reformat your PDF as necessary and re-upload
• Deleting the issue past 12 hours will not recoup your Upload and you will lose the Upload forever
• You may see processing errors as a final result as well.  In these cases you can delete the issue at any time and you will get your Upload back.  Errors include
• Filesize limit exceeded (PDF filesize exceeded the allotted limit of 500MB)
• Page limit exceeded (Number of pages of the PDF exceeded 1000)
• Page dimensions exceeded  (page dimensions exceeded 430 square inches)
• File is Corrupt (something is wrong with the PDF and it is not Adobe compliant.  Reformat the PDF using Adobe Acrobat)
• Processing Error (unknown problem with the PDF and it is not Adobe compliant.  Reformat the PDF using Adobe Acrobat)

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