You will never find you will never do a graphic design project without making so sort of mockup. Preparation of the mockup is very important. No one ever made money by just showing his or her customer a mockup that looked like this!
This instruction manual would go in a box with a product. It was created in QuarkXPress although it also could have been created in Adobe Indesign. There are crop marks set on the page so you can see what the actual page size is supposed to be.
It is also best to try to print the mockup on the type of paper you will be using for the actual project you are working on, or at least have some of the paper around to show.
The best way to find out whether the mockup will do the job, you desire on the project, you are working on is to make a mockup to see if the size and style really work. They do not want to imagine what it will look like; they want to see what it will look like.
You should cut out all the panels or pages in the size desired for the actual project. This is a manual so I cut out each of the pages. These pages were cut on the crop marks. They were placed on pages to show the actual manual.
Here is the start of a mockup. The best thing to do is to glue the pages on with spray glue, but for purposes of showing what this particular piece looks like I used double stick tape. Gluing is really the best way to go.
Here is the finished closed manual. As you can see it was stapled together as the real project was planned to be put together.
Here is the manual open.
Although this mockup is not as nice as the real thing, it does give the person an idea of what it looks like when the printer prints it. Alternatively, you may found out as I did, that I have to change the size of the document to fit the product.
