F&B Menu Posting Requirements
To add a Food and Beverage (F&B) menu to a Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma website, the following format and specifications are needed. The file should be located within the Workfront project’s “FINAL” folder.
Requirements
PDF format 9 MB or less – the menu should be created within a program such as Adobe InDesign or Illustrator and exported as a native PDF from those working files.
Examples
- Packaged InDesign files (fonts, image assets)
- Illustrator files (outlined fonts and image assets)
- Photoshop files including (non-rasterized) fonts as a layered file (packaged and exported)
It’s important to maintain vectorized menus so guests/users that view on their smart phones can zoom in as needed and the text remains legible (readable).
Definitions
Raster files are made up of pixels – tiny color squares that, in great quantity, can form highly detailed images such as photographs. A raster file specifies what goes into each pixel of an image. Raster files are generally larger than vector files. Their large size can impact device storage space and slow down page loading speeds on the web. However, you can compress raster files for storage and web optimization to make sharing faster and easier.
Vector files use mathematical equations, lines, and curves with fixed points on a grid to produce an image. There are no pixels in a vector file. A vector file’s mathematical formulas capture shape, border, and fill color to build an image. Because the mathematical formula recalibrates to any size, you can scale a vector image up or down without impacting its quality. Vector files are much more lightweight than raster files, containing only the mathematical formulas that determine the design.
How Can I Tell?
PDFs can also be created from raster-based files such as JPGs, to find out if a PDF is suitable for website use simply zoom in and see if text remains legible.
Visual Examples
