| Understanding Book Design |
MyPublisher gives you the option of creating three types of books — Classic Hardcover, Paperback PocketBook and Deluxe Hardcover. First create your book using any of the themes and templates offered in BookMaker. Next, click on Purchase to select your book type, cover colour, cover style and quantity.
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Classic Hardcover Books and Deluxe Hardcover Books have the option of either a horizontal Picture Window or a horizontal Classic Label for displaying the cover image and the text below it.
The Picture Window cover has a self-contained window created by encasing the cover page with a grey, archival-quality interior page. The cover photo and book title you choose for your Cover Page Template shows within the frameless window.
The Classic Label cover displays your Cover Page Template photo and title on a high-quality, picture stock label that is adhered to the middle of the front cover.
With either the Picture Window or the Classic Label, 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 image and title you choose for your Cover Page Template will only appear on the cover.
The covers on all MyPublisher Paperback PocketBooks feature a horizontal Peek-through Window for viewing the Cover Template. The cover image and the text below it that you place in the Cover Page Template will be both the cover image displayed through the window and the first page of your book (printed on the right-hand side).
You can place either a horizontal or a vertical image in the Cover Page Template. HOWEVER, if you choose a vertical image, it will display through the horizontal Peek-through Window, in the Picture Window or on the Classic Label with wide white borders on the left and the right sides of the image.
We strongly recommend that you do not leave the Cover Page Template blank. Doing so will result in a blank white page showing in the window or a blank label on the cover. There is nothing printed on the back of the cover page (left-hand side).
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MyPublisher's BookMaker software offers many design and layout options to organise your photos and create your customised photo book. The Theme determines the style of placement of the photos on each page. The Template specifies the number of pictures you want to have on each page. You can choose one of the Templates offered within the theme or custom select a template for each page using the Advanced feature.
When you choose a Theme for your book, it is applied to your entire book. Multiple themes cannot be used in one book. However, the Various Mixed theme combines features offered in the other four themes for maximum flexibility.
The placement of the pictures and captions on the page changes with each Theme and Template combination. This is displayed in the rectangular white area in the grey-striped design mat. If you change themes or templates during the design of a book, please be sure to Preview every page of your book before purchasing.
To select your theme, make sure you're in Book mode, then go to the lower right-hand corner of the screen and select your desired theme using the drop-down menu.
Horizontal images should be placed into horizontal frames and vertical images should be placed in vertical frames. Use the Advanced feature to select the ideal frame for your photos.
There are 5 Themes to choose from: Just Photos, Modern, Story Teller, Traditional and Various Mixed.
The charts below summarise which templates are available in which themes:
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To reduce the number of pictures on a page, simply leave one of the photo frames blank. Photo frames that are left blank will be printed as white space. The grey frames shown in the Preview will not print on the page.
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Click on Book mode from the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Activate the Advanced feature. | |
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The Advanced templates are now available on the right side of the screen. | |
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Each theme has a unique set of Advanced templates. | |
| 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 centre design mat. | |
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Left-click on the upper left-hand corner of the template you'd like to add and drag it into the centre design mat. Template options are located on the right-hand side of your screen. | |
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The page in the centre design mat will now take the form of the new template automatically adding any photos that were on the previous template. | |
| NOTE: We recommend that you select a template with the same number of frames as the existing template. If you select a template with fewer frames than the existing template, 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 template with more frames than the existing template, the empty photo frames will not be automatically populated. Photos on all subsequent pages will be unaffected. | ||
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Left-click on the upper left hand corner of the template you'd like to add and drag it into the page sequence below the design mat. | |
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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 template. Release the mouse button. | |
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Click on the page in the page sequence that you want the new template to come after. | |
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Click once on the upper right hand corner of the template you would like to add and release the mouse button. | |
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The new template will appear in the page sequence. | |
With the full-bleed template, 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 white border on the left and on the right of the photo.
The full-bleed option is available in the Just Photos theme and certain templates in the Various Mixed theme. Captions, Footers and Page Numbers cannot be added to full-bleed pages.
The Classic Hardcover and Deluxe Hardcover Books have the option of either a Picture Window or a Classic Label for viewing the cover image and the text below it. The image and text you place in the Cover Page Template will only appear on the cover of the album. The first page of your book will be the Title Page.
The covers on all MyPublisher PaperBack PocketBooks books have a horizontal Peek-through Window or a Classic Label for viewing the cover image and the text below it. The image and text that you place in the Cover Page Template will be both the cover image and the first page of your book (printed on the right-hand side). There is nothing printed on the back of the cover page (left-hand side).
You can place either a horizontal or a vertical image in the Cover Page Template. HOWEVER, if you choose a vertical image, it will display through the horizontal Peek-through Window, in the Picture Window or on the Classic Label with wide white borders on the left and the right sides of the image. Because of the cover image and text displaying on the cover of the book, we strongly recommend that you do not leave the Cover Page Template blank. Doing so will result in a blank page showing through the window or a blank label on the cover.
Beneath your cover photo, there are two title caption boxes for book titles. If you leave any of these title captions boxes blank, blank background space will be printed in its place. The cover image will not expand to compensate for the empty space.
The Title Page is a Text-Only template. Photos cannot be inserted in the Title Page. The Title Page is the first page after the Cover Page Template in all themes and is printed on the right-hand side of the book.
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Click on 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 template. | |
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Click on Book mode from the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on Advanced located under the tool bar. | |
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The Advanced Template options will open on the right side of the screen. | |
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Locate the Text-Only template. | |
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Drag and drop the Text-Only template into the first page position under the design mat. | |
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The Text-Only page is the same template as the title page. | |
The Text-Only page template is available in the Advanced feature. The Text-Only page is the same template 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: | ||
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Click on Book mode from the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on Advanced located under the tool bar. | |
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Locate the Text-Only template from the template options on the right side of the screen. | |
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Add this Text-Only template to your page sequence by following the "To add a page template" instructions listed above. | |
Caption boxes are offered in the Modern, Story Teller, and Traditional themes as well as in select templates in the Various Mixed theme. Caption boxes are NOT offered in the Just Photos theme or in full-bleed templates.
To activate a caption box:
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Click on the Book mode on the tool bar under the design mat. | |
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Click on 1 Page or 2 Page in the Preview tool bar above the design mat. | |
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Click on the page (bottom of the screen) that you want to add captions to. | |
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Click on the grey outlined caption box that is located near the photo you are adding captions to. | |
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The caption box will turn blue and a text entry box is opened below the design mat. |
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.
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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 located to the left of the font selection box. | |
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You have the option to left-justify, centre, or right-justify the text. | |
Leaving text boxes blank
If you do not enter text into the Caption Editor,
the area will appear 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 recommend that you do not 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 BookMaker: | ||
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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
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Click on the first text box: the border will turn blue. | |
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In the caption-enter area located under the grey-striped design mat, delete any extra spaces or random characters that may appear. | |
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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. | |
There are 8 different fonts offered in BookMaker. Each theme offers a unique selection of fonts and font sizes. The fonts and font sizes are fixed and cannot be mixed within a caption box. Fonts cannot be deleted or added to BookMaker.
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