Chapter checklist

The routine for one chapter, condensed. Detail lives on the other pages in this section.

Once per workspace

• Define a canvas profile for each page size you draw at
• Generate a template for each profile that uses margins
• Put the templates somewhere the iPad can reach

→ Canvas profiles, Templates

Start of chapter

• Create the project in Platemaker
• Decide where its output will go

→ Projects

While drawing

• Create each canvas at the profile's absolute size
• Import the template; draw underneath it
• Keep anything that matters inside the safe area
• Export finished pages as PNG, sRGB to Drive as you go

→ Drawing & export

Whenever you feel like it

You do not have to wait for the chapter to be finished.

• Add the pages exported so far to the project
• Check the order
• Render, and look at the slices — do the pages cut where you expected? Has detail survived the scale-down?

Re-rendering later is cheap; only what changed is redone.

→ Rendering

When the chapter is complete

• Add the cover as the first input
• Confirm the order once more
• Check every tile is matched and none is being skipped
• Render
• Check the total size of the output folder against the platform's per-chapter cap — expect to adjust compression and render again
• Save the workspace

→ File statuses, Output profiles

Publish

• Upload the slices
• Confirm the order on the platform
• Add the thumbnail

→ Publishing

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See also: Comic production · Rendering · Publishing