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CLASSIC RESUME
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INTRODUCTION

Thank you for purchasing Classic Resume.

We have spent a lot of time developing this template

to make life as easy as possible for you, if you have any
suggestions for improvement please email us at
feedback@ikono.me

Please read these instructions to get the best

results from the files provided.

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TYPEFACES

Classic Resume requires the following two fonts

to be installed on your computer.

Montserrat
This font can be downloaded for FREE at
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/montserrat

Open Sans
This font can be downloaded for FREE at
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/opensans

Please note:
The fonts are not created by us and the font designer may
update the font design, change the location of the download
or limit the availability of the free versions.

If you experience any problem, please let us know at

feedback@ikono.me so we can update the files.

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ICONS

Classic Resume includes social media icons in both

EPS and PNG formats.

These can be found in the folder ‘Classic Resume_

Files>Icons’. Each icon is supplied in both
black and white versions.

Adobe Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop

Use the EPS version of the icons for vector quality.

Microsoft Word
Use the PNG version of the icons.

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A D O B E I L L U S T R ATO R
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The Adobe Illustrator documents are created in 1

A4 and US Letter sizes. Colours are CMYK.

Adobe Illustrator documents are multipage documents.

Grid
The layout grid is provided on an additional layer.
The grid layer is not visible by default.
To make the Grid layer visible, navigate to the
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Layers palette and click in the box on the far left
of the layer name. The eye icon will appear, indicating
the layer is now visible. Click again to turn off.

Changing Colour
The Adobe Illustrator documents included global colour
swatches to quickly change colour across all pages.
To change colours simply edit the colour swatch values.
2
Double click on the swatch icon you wish to change,
2
add your new colour values and then press OK.

Font Styles
The document includes a number of clearly labelled
character styles to quickly change type attributes.
Double click on the font style you wish to change,
3
edit the type characteristics and then press OK.

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ADOBE INDESIGN
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The Adobe Indesign documents are created in

A4 and US Letter sizes. Colours are CMYK.

Adobe Indesigns documents include all page designs. 1

Master Page
Master pages contains the elements common to all pages.
This includes the name, profession, main contact details
and background panels.

Any changes to the master pages will automatically update

on all related pages.
To edit the master pages, double click the EDIT ME
1
master page icon in the Pages palette.

Changing Colour
The document includes global colour swatches to quickly edit
the colours throughout the whole document. 2
Select the Main Colour swatch icon, double click it,
2
edit the colour values and then press OK.

Font Styles
The document includes a number of clearly labelled
character styles to quickly change type attributes.
Double click on the font style you wish to change,
3
edit the type characteristics and then press OK.
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
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The Adobe Photoshop documents are created in

A4 and US Letter sizes. Colours are CMYK.

Pages
All pages are included in the single photoshop document.
Each page can be found in layer groups. 1

Guidelines
The Photoshop document features guidelines to
1
quickly align items. The document includes bleeds.
Page trim areas are indicated by the outer guides.

Photoshop layers
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Each photoshop document contains clearly labelled layers
and layer groups.
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The HEADER and FOOTER layer groups
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contain the elements common to all pages.
2
All page designs are contained in layer groups - 5
3
Page 1 - Letter, Page 2 - Resume,
Page 3 - Resume 2 and Page 4 - Portfolio.
To turn on/off visibilty of pages click on left side
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of the folder name in the Layers palette.
4
Background graphics can be found in the
5
Background folder.

TIP
You can quickly navigate the layer for each item by
checking the ‘Auto-Select’ box. Once activated you
can simply select the item you want to edit by
clicking on it.

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S AV I N G A N D E X P O R T I N G
PDF FILES

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

1 Choose File > Save As
2 From the Save As dialog box in the Format
drop-down menu select PDF format
3 Select the PDF preset you require from the
drop-down Adobe PDF preset:
4 Press Save

Adobe Indesign
1 Choose File > Export
2 From the Export dialog box in the Format
drop-down menu select PDF format
3 Select the PDF preset you require from the
drop-down Adobe PDF preset:
4 Press Save

Which Adobe PDF setting should I choose? 1

Professional Press Quality

You will need a High Resolution PDF for
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professional printing. Set the PDF format to
PDF/X1a:2001. Check first with your print
shop, as they may have specific PDF settings
to integrate with their printing systems.

Online and Email

For online viewing and email you may need
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to optimise the PDF file to a smaller file size.
To compress the PDF to its smallest size use
the Smallest File Size setting.

How to make Photoshop PDF pages into multi-page PDF

To make a multi-page PDF you can use Adobe Acrobat,
for instructions see the link below
http://www.wikihow.com/Merge-PDF-Files
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You can also use an online service such as
http://smallpdf.com/merge-pdf

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MICROSOFT WORD
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The Microsoft Word documents are created in .docx

format for both A4 and US Letter sizes.

Pages
The following word documents are supplied:
1 Letter
2 Resume
3 Resume2
4 Portfolio Letter

Icons
Additional icons can be found in the folder
‘Classic_Resume_Files>Icons>PNG’.

To change an icon first select the icon picture to change,

then use the ‘Change Picture’ command and then choose
an icon from the ‘Classic_Resume_Files>Icons>PNG' folder.

PDF Resume
The following page includes instruction for creating PDF
documents from Microsoft Word.

Resume 2

Portfolio

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MICROSOFT WORD
PDF FILES

Microsoft Word has a limit on the size of word document

that you can save to PDF, so we recommend you use the
Print to PDF option.

Print to PDF (borderless)

By default Microsoft Word creates a border around a PDF,
to create a borderless PDF follow these instructions.

In Microsoft Word file, go to Page Setup:

• Settings - Page Attributes
• Format for - Any Printer
• Paper Size - click here and then click on
Manage Custom Sizes

• Click + to add new size - name it PDF borderless

• Click in the paper size boxes to make A4 or US Letter
• Make sure Non-Printable Area says User Defined,
and change margins in boxes to 0
• Click OK

Go to Print menu:
• Printer - choose any
• Presets - Standard
• Click on PDF - Save as PDF
• Choose file name and save location
• Click Save

Word for Mac follows a slightly different last step

• File>Print
• Locate the PDF dropdown at the bottom of the Print
dialogue box and select > Save as PDF
• Choose file name and save location
• Click Save

Multipage PDF
You can combined PDFs in Adobe Acrobat or use an online
service such as http://smallpdf.com/merge-pdf

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