SPECIFICATIONS & GUIDELINES

Specifications and GuidelinesLearn more about our advertising requirements in print and online

Star News Group has specific ad sizes, formats and material requirements along with deadlines for creative material for print and online products. Check out the specs below and if you still have questions just connect with your advertising representative.

PRINT - Specifications and guidelines

Accepted Applications

The preferred material format is a PDF however we accept materials using these applications:

InDesign CS5.5 - Documents must be accompanied by all images and fonts
Adobe Illustrator (up to CS5.5) - Documents must have all fonts outlined and in an illustrator EPS format
Photoshop (up to CS5.5)
Acrobat 10.0
Microsoft Word (.txt files only) DO NOT supply finished material, logos and pictures set in this program

Logos & Pictures

JPEG - uncompressed, 200dpi at size
Illustrator EPS (fonts outlined)
TIFF - uncompressed, 200dpi at size

Material Transfer

Adstream - https://www.adstream.com/
Email to Advertising Sales Representative
Secure file sharing such as Google Drive

Unacceptable Material

The following Complete Material formats will NOT be accepted

Microsoft Word
Pagemaker
Microsoft Publisher

Specifications

Learn more about the material specifications below.

All artwork supplied must be in CMYK and 200dpi.
DO NOT supply photos which have been scanned bigger than they have been used in your material. This only makes the file size larger than it has to be.
True Type fonts are not accepted, your final material should be made up of only Postscript fonts.
Film is not accepted
Please note that newspaper print has a dot gain of 25%. Four colour process jobs should be adjusted to allow for this dot gain.
Total ink coverage of a fl at CMYK colour should not exceed 240%.
Maximum number of nodes in a single path not to exceed 1600.

NEWSPRINT - Tabloid Sizes and Shapes

Early General News (EGN)

These sizes are to be used for advertisements booked in the Early General News section of the newspapers.

Newsprint Module Description & Sizes

Newsprint Module Shapes & Description

GLOSS - Tabloid Sizes and Shapes

These sizes are to be used for advertisements booked in the Early General News section of the newspapers

Gloss Tabloid Module Description & Sizes

Gloss Tabloid Module Shapes & Description

ONLINE - Web Site Banner Ad Size and Shapes

Banner Advertisement Shapes (measured in pixels)

Banner Top and Banner Bottom - 300 wide X 50 high (for QLD, SA and NT sites)
Top Block and Footer Block - 250 wide X 90 high (for VIC sites and Noosa, Warwick & Stanthorpe sites only in QLD)
Medium Rectangle - 300 wide X 250 high (all sites)
Note: Leaderboard - 728 wide X 90 high banner ads are no longer supported and are being depricated from our group websites.

Creative Specifications for online banner ads:

Accepted image file types: GIF, PNG, JPEG
File Sizes: Standard – Maximum size 40kb
Animated – Maximum size 150kb
Animation Time: Looping is permitted. We recommend three slide animation for GIF’s of not more than 2 seconds per slide.

Third-Party Ad Serving

We accept third-party ad serving tags. Tags must be submitted following standard deadlines.

Online Material & Booking Deadlines

Finished approved creative and/or ad serving tags must be delivered 5 days prior to the start date of the campaign.

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