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| Understanding Book Design in MyPublisher |
MyPublisher gives you the option of creating three sizes of books — Classic Hardcover, Deluxe Hardcover and Paperback PocketBook. To select the type of book you want, first create your book using any of the Book Styles, Cover Styles and Page Layouts offered in MyPublisher™. Next, click on Purchase to select your book size, cover color (if applicable) , and quantity.
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Classic and Deluxe Hardcover Books
Classic and Deluxe Hardcover books come with a Picture Window linen cover or a Book Jacket. There are various ways of customizing both. It can have a full-bleed photo, a photo with a caption, or a Themed Design.
The Picture Window cover has a self-contained window created by encasing the cover page with a gray, archival-quality interior page. The cover image/design you choose for your Cover Page Layout shows within the frameless window.
The Book Jacket cover displays your Cover Page Layout on a high-quality, laminated cover stock that wraps completely around the hardcover casing.
With either the Picture Window or the Book Jacket, the first page of your book will be the Title Page, or your first page of images if you choose not to have a Title Page, printed on the right-hand side. The cover image you choose for your Cover Page Layout will only appear on the cover.
Paperback PocketBooks
The covers on all MyPublisher Paperback PocketBooks feature a horizontal Printed Cover for viewing the Cover Page Layout.
PocketBook Cover Page Layouts can be either an image with a title caption, a full-bleed image or a Themed Cover Design (see following section).
You can place either a horizontal or a vertical image in the Cover Page Layout. HOWEVER, if you choose a vertical image, it will display on the Printed Cover, Book Jacket, or through the Picture Window with wide white borders on the left and the right sides of the image.
NOTE: We strongly recommend that you do not leave the Cover Page Layout blank. Doing so will result in a blank white page showing in the window or a blank book jacket or printed cover.
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Our new Book Jackets give your PhotoBooks the look and feel of professional bookstore-quality books. Available for both our Classic and Deluxe hardcover books, the Book Jackets print your cover template on a high-gloss, laminated cover stock that resists marking and tearing. The Title you insert for your book on your cover page is also printed on the spine of the Book Jacket. Nothing is printed on the back or inside flaps of the jacket. All casings under the jacket are black linen. There are 10 different Book Jackets layouts available for your photo and text or you can select from one of our 13 Themed Cover Designs (see next section). Each available cover template layout has a coordinating color that is printed on the back of the Book Jacket and on the inside flaps. This default color cannot be changed.
MyPublisher's new Themed Cover Designs offer a variety of professionally designed and personalized covers. If you wish, you can now select from one of 13 Themed Cover Designs rather than selecting a Photo and Caption or Full-bleed Photo layout for your cover. These covers express many popular book subjects such as birthdays, travel, anniversaries, babies or weddings plus other decorative designs that can be used for a variety of topics.
| To access the Themed Cover Design options in MyPublisher: | ||
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While in Make Book mode, click on the Cover Page of your book. | |
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Then click on the Page Layout button from the tool bar under the design mat. All available Typographic Cover options will appear in a pop-up menu. | |
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Select a Themed Cover Design you would like to use as your cover. You will then be able to add some personalized text within the pre-determined text boxes in the cover design. | |
To view all the new Themed Cover Designs in a sample book, click here.
If you choose a Book Jacket or Printed PocketBook cover and use one of the Themed Cover Designs, the back of the book jacket will have a default color that coordinates with the design on the front.
Following are the default colors printed on the backs of Book Jackets and Printed Cover PocketBooks for each of the Themed Cover Designs:
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MyPublisher's software offers many design and layout options to organize your photos and create your customized PhotoBook. The Book Style determines the style of placement of the photos on each page. The Page Type specifies the number of pictures you want to have on each page. The Page Layout is the arrangement on the page for the number of photos you selected for that page. There are dozens of different Page Layouts for each Book Style.
You will have the option to choose your Book Style before you begin creating your book.
When you choose a Book Style for your book, it is applied to your entire book. Multiple styles cannot be used in one book.
The placement of the pictures, captions and/or design elements on the page changes with each Book Style and Page Layout combination. This is displayed in the book image area in the gray design mat. If you change styles or layouts during the design of a book, please be sure to Preview every page of your book before purchasing.
If you decide to change your Book Style, you can simply click on the Book Size and Style button in the center of the design tool bar at the bottom of the screen while in Make Book mode. The Start Book screen displaying all the book sizes and styles will appear. Select your desired style using the drop-down menu.
There are 8 Book Styles to choose from: Just Photos, Modern, Story Teller, Bestseller, Travel, Wedding, Baby Boy and Baby Girl.
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The Wedding Book Style evokes the elegance and sophistication of your special day. | |
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Classic layouts, muted background colors and refined design elements make the perfect wedding album. | |
The Travel, Wedding, Baby Boy and Baby Girl Book Styles have been professionally designed and were created to ensure your photos are the focus of the photo book while capturing the feeling of the theme. Some of the design elements are created to be askew, individual or unique and should not be considered printing errors.
There are many Page Layout options available within each Book Style. First decide on the number of photos you want on a specific page and choose that option from the Page Type drop-down menu below the design mat. Then click the Page Layout button to see the options available for that number of pictures.
As a rule, horizontal images should be placed into horizontal
frames and vertical images should be placed in vertical
frames.
Customizing and Adding Pages to Your Book
| To change the layout of an existing page: | ||
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Click on the page that you'd like to change the template of and make sure that it appears in the center design mat. | |
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Select the Page Type i.e. 1 Photo, 2 Photos, etc. Then select the desired page layout. Click or drag the desired layout into your book. | |
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The page in the center design mat will now take the form of the new layout automatically adding any photos that were on the previous layout. | |
| NOTE: We recommend that you select a layout with the same number of photo frames as the existing layout. If you select a layout with fewer frames than the existing layout, the last photos on the page will be transferred to the next page. Photos on all subsequent pages will be moved one frame to the right. If you select a layout with more frames than the existing layout, the empty photo frames will not be automatically populated. Photos on all subsequent pages will be unaffected. | ||
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Select the Page Layout button from the design toolbar and click on the layout you would like to add. It will appear in your book on the design mat as a new page at the end of your sequence. | |
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To change the sequence the new page appears in, hold the left mouse button down and drag the template to the page sequence until you see a blue line to the left of the picture that comes after the new page. Release the mouse button. | |
With the full-bleed layout, the image is printed to the edge of the page on all sides. Full-bleed horizontal images take up the entire page. There is no white border surrounding the image. Full-bleed vertical images are printed to the edge of the page on the top and bottom but have a wide border on the left and on the right of the photo. The border will be the background color you select.
The Full-Bleed Cover Layout means the cover image takes up the entire Picture Window or Book Jacket.
Captions, Footers and Page Numbers cannot be added to full-bleed pages.
The Title Page is a Text-Only Layout. Photos cannot be inserted in the Title Page. A Title Page is the first page after the Cover Page layout in all Book Styles and is printed on the right-hand side of the book.
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Click on Make Book mode from the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on the × in the bottom right corner of the Title Page layout or click on the Title Page itself then hit the Remove Page button. . | |
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Click on Make Book mode from the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on the Page Type button and select "Text-Only" from the menu. | |
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Then select the desired Text-Only Layout from the Page Layout pop-up. | |
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Drag and drop the Text-Only Layout into the first page position under the design mat. | |
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The Text-Only Layout is the same template as the Title Page Layout. | |
The Text-Only Page Layout is the same as the Title Page and can be added as many times as you'd like, anywhere in your page sequence. Photos cannot be inserted in the Text-Only page.
| To add a Text-Only Page Layout: | ||
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Click on Make Book mode from the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on the Page Type button and select "Text-Only" from the menu. | |
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Then select the desired Text-Only Layout from the Page Layout pop-up. | |
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Add this Text-Only Layout to your page sequence by following the "To add a page layout " instructions listed above. | |
MyPublisher offers a choice of three background page
colors: White,
Gray or Black. This option is available in all Book Styles and all Page Layouts.
The default Background Page
color is white. The Travel, Wedding, Baby Boy and Baby Girl Book Styles
have pre-determined background
colors that cannot be altered.
| To select a Background Color for your page: | ||
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While in Make Book mode, click on the Page Layout button. | |
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Click on the radio button next to the color you would like for the background of the page you are working on. Then select the desired page layout. | |
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For each successive page, the background color must be chosen. | |
Caption boxes are offered in all Book Styles except Just Photos style. Also full-bleed page layouts do not offer caption boxes in any of the Book Styles.
To activate a caption box:
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Make sure you are in Make Book mode by clicking on it in the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on the page that you want to add captions to. | |
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Click on the gray outlined caption box that is located near the photo you are adding captions to. | |
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The caption box will turn blue to indicate it is active and you can begin typing. |
Entering captions
Each caption box has a maximum number of characters allowed within its sides. Type your caption as you would like it to appear. If you enter too many characters into a caption box the text will turn red. A pop up box will notify you that you have entered too much text. You will need to delete words until the text in the caption box turns black again.
Spell Check
MyPublisher has a built-in Spell Check feature. All captions will be automatically checked to help ensure accurate spelling. Any words that are improperly spelled will be underlined in red in the text box on the page. To correct a misspelled word, click on the text box in which the red word appears. Then you can edit the word within the caption editor box. Alternatively, you can right click on the word in the text box to see suggested spellings for the word and choose the desired word from the list. Then click outside the box and you will see how the corrected text will appear on the page. If a red line persists, the problem may not have been corrected or the word is unfamiliar to the Spell Checker.
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You do not need to highlight the text in the Caption Editor to change the alignment of the text. | |
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Click on one of the three text alignment selections, left-justify, center, or right-justify, located to the left of the font selection box. | |
Leaving text boxes blank
If you choose not to enter text into the Caption Editor, the area
will appear just as blank background space. The text box outline
you see on the screen will not be printed.
Cutting and pasting text from another document
We do not recommend that you cut and paste text from a different application. Imported text may not translate properly when processed to our press, even though it appears correctly in the Preview.
| If you do cut and paste text, we urge you to re-type the following characters once you have imported them into MyPublisher: | ||
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Apostrophes | |
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Quotation Marks | |
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Ellipses | |
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Dashes | |
Overlapping text on the cover page
| If you see text overlapping on the cover page: | ||
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Click on the first text box: the border will turn blue. | |
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In the caption-enter area, delete any extra spaces or random characters that may appear or any returns at the end of a line of text. | |
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Repeat this process for the second text box on the cover page. | |
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Red text means that the error has not been corrected. | |
MyPublisher features 4 custom MyPublisher fonts - MP Palisade, MP Dorset, MP Baxter, MP Peony - plus 9 other fonts including Arial, Courier New, Lucida Sans Unicode, Palatino Linotype, Palatino Linotype Bold, Tahoma, Times New Roman and Verdana.
All fonts are available in all Book Styles with a unique selection of font sizes available depending on the size of the text box and the font itself. Fonts and font treatments (e.g. bold, italics, underline) cannot be mixed within a caption box. Fonts cannot be deleted or added to MyPublisher.
NOTE: Bold and italic font treatments are not available for every font type.
To change the default
font:
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Click on the selector arrow next to the default font to choose another font you would prefer. | |
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You do not need to highlight the text in the Caption Editor to change the font type. | |
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You must select the font type for each page you want to change. MyPublisher does not automatically change the font on every page when you change the font on one page. However, the font you select will become the new default font for all subsequent pages you create. |
To change the style
of the font:
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Select the B to the right of the font selection box to bold the text. | |
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Select the I to the right of the font selection box to italicize the text. | |
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Select the U to the right of the font selection box to Underline the text. |
Adding
page numbers
If desired, page numbers can be printed in your book.
The page numbers are printed on the lower left-hand corner
of left-hand pages and the lower right-hand corner of right-hand
pages. If page numbers are selected, every page will be numbered. Page numbers cannot be included in full-bleed
layouts.
| To turn the page numbering function on and off: | ||
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While in Make Book mode, click on the Print Options button in the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on the radio button next to the Page Numbers option located in the Print Options pop-up. | |
Adding footers
Footers appear on the bottom of every page in your
book. If you are creating your book with double-sided
printing, the footers alternate between the lower
left-hand corner (even-numbered pages) and the lower
right-hand corner (odd-numbered pages) of each page.
If footers are selected, the footer will appear on every page of your book. The footer function is available in every Book Style except
for Just Photos.
| To turn the footer function on and off: | ||
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While in Make Book mode, click on the Print Options button in the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on the radio button next to the Footer option located in the Print Options pop-up. | |