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Post by tmadoc on Jun 20, 2024 14:47:30 GMT
Hello, I'm fairly new to Lulu and this is my first post ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) . I downloaded the US Trade (6 x 9 in) MS Word template from Lulu and spent the past few weeks massaging the content, including styles, formatting, etc. Now all I have left is headers/footers/page #s, but as I started working on it I noticed an odd problem. On the Odd pages only, text starts about .25 to the right of the left margin, AND spills over about .25 to the right of the right margin! There are no tabs causing this, margins and gutter appear normal, and there's no indent to decrease. I'm a pretty well-versed MSWord user but I am befuddled by this! To be clear, I noticed the issue while working on headers but it is an issue in the main body as well. The issue doesn't occur at all on the Even pages. Does anyone have a suggestion/idea? I do have a case open with Lulu but thought I'd check here too.
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Post by tmadoc on Jun 21, 2024 18:42:53 GMT
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jun 21, 2024 23:21:42 GMT
Excellent! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I was scratching my head and feeling incompetent with the thing. I cut my teeth on WordPerfect decades ago and never liked MSWord. Due to work conditions I was forced into migrating to MSWord and I never really completed the transition. Now I'm stuck in the nether world - another unwilling captive of Microsoft.
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jun 22, 2024 23:14:10 GMT
By the time you learn how to adjust those templates, you may as well have just made your own ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) 2023? which version of Word do you mean? the 360 on line one? I still use Office 2010 (which was on a DVD) and there's no problem with that.
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Post by Mag2024 on Jun 26, 2024 0:38:06 GMT
Hello, I'm fairly new to Lulu and this is my first post ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) . I downloaded the US Trade (6 x 9 in) MS Word template from Lulu and spent the past few weeks massaging the content, including styles, formatting, etc. Now all I have left is headers/footers/page #s, but as I started working on it I noticed an odd problem. On the Odd pages only, text starts about .25 to the right of the left margin, AND spills over about .25 to the right of the right margin! There are no tabs causing this, margins and gutter appear normal, and there's no indent to decrease. I'm a pretty well-versed MSWord user but I am befuddled by this! To be clear, I noticed the issue while working on headers but it is an issue in the main body as well. The issue doesn't occur at all on the Even pages. Does anyone have a suggestion/idea? I do have a case open with Lulu but thought I'd check here too. Hi tm, I've encountered just about every problem using Word. There's always a trick to fix it. Would you care to upload a couple of pages of your Word doc? You can later delete once the issue is resolved.
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Post by Mag2024 on Jun 26, 2024 0:47:52 GMT
Excellent! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I was scratching my head and feeling incompetent with the thing. I cut my teeth on WordPerfect decades ago and never liked MSWord. Due to work conditions I was forced into migrating to MSWord and I never really completed the transition. Now I'm stuck in the nether world - another unwilling captive of Microsoft. It's a puzzle. You will figure it out, and you'll never look back!
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Post by Mag2024 on Jun 26, 2024 0:49:31 GMT
Excellent! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I was scratching my head and feeling incompetent with the thing. I cut my teeth on WordPerfect decades ago and never liked MSWord. Due to work conditions I was forced into migrating to MSWord and I never really completed the transition. Now I'm stuck in the nether world - another unwilling captive of Microsoft. It's a puzzle. You will figure it out, and you'll never look back! By the way, I think you will be thrilled making covers in Photoshop, should you feel up to another tiny challenge.
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jun 26, 2024 23:30:00 GMT
Photoshop is not cheap. But there are clones of it, often even free. www.techradar.com/best/photoshop-alternatives just a few examples. But to be honest, to create a cover you don't need all the bells and whistles. Look for art apps also. But even the tools built in to Windows are not too bad.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jun 27, 2024 12:21:00 GMT
I haven't been using any of them much lately.
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jun 28, 2024 23:20:18 GMT
Maybe, one day, you can just ask AI to create a cover (shudder)
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Post by Mag2024 on Jun 30, 2024 4:20:17 GMT
Maybe, one day, you can just ask AI to create a cover (shudder) I'm sure that's possible now. KDP and other PODs have included a question as to whether or not you've used AI.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jun 30, 2024 17:59:20 GMT
Maybe, one day, you can just ask AI to create a cover (shudder) I'm sure that's possible now. KDP and other PODs have included a question as to whether or not you've used AI. AI can be used to create art, text, and translation. The problem with AI is Copyright Law [at least in the US].
Per the US Copyright Office in order for a work to qualify for a copyright it has to be produced by a human, meaning work produced by a machine or non-human intelligence doesn't meet the standard for a copyright. builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-copyright
Part of the reason is AI learns from examples produced by humans, and due to potential similarities to the work of people, plagiarism potentially becomes an issue. You can't sue a machine but you can sue another human.
A few countries, like the UK, do allow AI-generated content and grant a copyright.
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Post by Mag2024 on Jun 30, 2024 20:00:35 GMT
I'm sure that's possible now. KDP and other PODs have included a question as to whether or not you've used AI. AI can be used to create art, text, and translation. The problem with AI is Copyright Law [at least in the US].
Per the US Copyright Office in order for a work to qualify for a copyright it has to be produced by a human, meaning work produced by a machine or non-human intelligence doesn't meet the standard for a copyright. builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-copyright
Part of the reason is AI learns from examples produced by humans, and due to potential similarities to the work of people, plagiarism potentially becomes an issue. You can't sue a machine but you can sue another human.
A few countries, like the UK, do allow AI-generated content and grant a copyright.
Interesting. I wonder how they justify copyright.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jun 30, 2024 21:30:14 GMT
AI can be used to create art, text, and translation. The problem with AI is Copyright Law [at least in the US].
Per the US Copyright Office in order for a work to qualify for a copyright it has to be produced by a human, meaning work produced by a machine or non-human intelligence doesn't meet the standard for a copyright. builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-copyright
Part of the reason is AI learns from examples produced by humans, and due to potential similarities to the work of people, plagiarism potentially becomes an issue. You can't sue a machine but you can sue another human.
A few countries, like the UK, do allow AI-generated content and grant a copyright.
Interesting. I wonder how they justify copyright. I have no idea.
Were it a biologic-non-human intelligence [so far none recognized by courts around the world] it would be one thing.
Were it a non-biologic-non-human intelligence [so far none recognized by courts around the world] it would be understandable as well.
There are already lawsuits in various jurisdictions.
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jun 30, 2024 23:45:37 GMT
AI usually scans the internet for content and sort of steals bits of what it finds to create something. Copyright can enter in to it when, if, a copyright holder notices what has been stolen in use. Maybe they use AI to scan for copyright breaches? A bit like Google Image Search.
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