Developing content for an atlas presentation is similar to developing content for a museum exhibit. You need tight themes, economical use of language and images, and a selection of graphics and images in formats best adapted to explaining the content.
Size is an unforeseen issue in trying to work this out for print. The space is small; maps are big. While we've looked at the theory of good mapping--color, legends, selective content--the practice, as always, is less intuitive than the critiquing process leads us to believe.
As it stands now, this presentation is a little short on maps and a little long on photos. Still thinking.
At the risk of sounding like a digital hypochondriac, it's ALWAYS the basics that get me (first). When I export the Illustrator files as jpegs, the print area disappears, and the page format sinks marginless against the edges. However, they do export as PDFs. Here are mockups of the first three pages; the elements of page four may appear before class...
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