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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 20:35:56 GMT
Jun 18, 2020 15:18:00 GMT -5 Maggie said: Maggie Avatar Jun 18, 2020 15:14:15 GMT -5 Maggie said: You're making it sound complicated. All of it. Anyone reading will think they can't do it.
It's simple: Just print your file as PDFX1a-2001 for all Ingram Spark uploads. That is all. Easy and anyone can do it.
Who cares about Linux? Who cares about graphics and who cares about grayscale? Just choose a simple setting from your PDF creator. Simple. The eight-year-old and the granny can do it. No need to know all that nonsense.
Miss Maggie, It's not always as easy as you'd like it to sound. My PDF creator at this point is Libre Office Writer, and it has no setting for PDFX1a-2001. Online converters don't allow me to choose between PDF/A and PDF/X. As I've noticed a lot of online converters hose metadata even when based off MS Office 365. Settings for PDFs can be OS specific and do cause issues if there is no direct one-for-one alternative. I'm a grandparent and a parent, I'm more than eight-years-old, and I need to know all that nonsense because I don't use MS Windows. I care about the programs for Linux because that's what I can afford to use. I'm not rich, meaning if I have to chooses between paying for a license for MS Windows or feeding my kids, I choose my kids. Denigrating me does not advance your argument. Please accept my apology. I am watching Dirty John, season two, only four episodes in and not enjoying how her husband is destroying her, manipulating her, making her helpless. Painful to watch.
So, I want people to feel enabled, strong, knowledgeable and capable. The bottom line is, you need a setting of PDFX 1a 2001. That is all. Anyone can do it, including you.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 20:38:30 GMT
Jun 18, 2020 15:18:00 GMT -5 Maggie said: Maggie Avatar Jun 18, 2020 15:14:15 GMT -5 Maggie said: You're making it sound complicated. All of it. Anyone reading will think they can't do it.
It's simple: Just print your file as PDFX1a-2001 for all Ingram Spark uploads. That is all. Easy and anyone can do it.
Who cares about Linux? Who cares about graphics and who cares about grayscale? Just choose a simple setting from your PDF creator. Simple. The eight-year-old and the granny can do it. No need to know all that nonsense.
Miss Maggie, It's not always as easy as you'd like it to sound. My PDF creator at this point is Libre Office Writer, and it has no setting for PDFX1a-2001. Online converters don't allow me to choose between PDF/A and PDF/X. Also I've noticed a lot of online converters hose metadata even when based off MS Office 365. Settings for PDFs can be OS specific and do cause issues if there is no direct one-for-one alternative. I'm a grandparent and a parent, I'm more than eight-years-old, and I need to know all that nonsense because I don't use MS Windows. I care about the programs for Linux because that's what I can afford to use. I'm not rich, meaning if I have to choose between paying for a license for MS Windows or feeding my kids, I choose my kids. Denigrating me does not advance your argument. Sphinx-Cameron, please call me Maggie, not Miss Maggie. Thank you.
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Post by Darren Turner on Jun 19, 2020 16:11:39 GMT
Hello Maggie, Hello Sphinx-Cameron. Thanks for your suggestions to date. I have looked at both options and, for a start, I've adjusted my Word document to 11.4cm x 18.1cm to suit a Pocket Book with bleed as recommended by Lulu. I then tweaked the margins in the document so the formatting adjusted back to there or thereabouts as it was and, with a quick edit through, is back to 408 pages (and, therefore, back to the size that I designed the cover to be). I then saved it as a pdf from Word, checked to make sure fonts are embedded, and went back to Lulu to upload the interior file. AND THEN I STILL GOT THE SAME BLOODY "There was an error uploading the file. Please try again" MESSAGE. I'm beginning to think that this is not the file but something more technical, as the message comes back instantly. Any ideas please? I've tried contacting Lulu but I get the standard "look at our website for useful tips" email, and when I reply to re-open my case I never get a response (I'm guessing they're struggling with the current circumstances, so I appreciate it can't be easy). Many thanks,
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 16:45:16 GMT
Hello Maggie, Hello Sphinx-Cameron. Thanks for your suggestions to date. I have looked at both options and, for a start, I've adjusted my Word document to 11.4cm x 18.1cm to suit a Pocket Book with bleed as recommended by Lulu. I then tweaked the margins in the document so the formatting adjusted back to there or thereabouts as it was and, with a quick edit through, is back to 408 pages (and, therefore, back to the size that I designed the cover to be). I then saved it as a pdf from Word, checked to make sure fonts are embedded, and went back to Lulu to upload the interior file. AND THEN I STILL GOT THE SAME BLOODY "There was an error uploading the file. Please try again" MESSAGE. I'm beginning to think that this is not the file but something more technical, as the message comes back instantly. Any ideas please? I've tried contacting Lulu but I get the standard "look at our website for useful tips" email, and when I reply to re-open my case I never get a response (I'm guessing they're struggling with the current circumstances, so I appreciate it can't be easy). Many thanks, Try my approach. Take your PDF. And reprint as a different size. There will be zero chance of not enough bleed. You can also attach PDF and I will have a look. I will also test upload to Lulu and tell you what the problem was. You should be able to attach a file to your response message and edit later to delete the file.
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Post by Darren Turner on Jun 22, 2020 17:08:32 GMT
Thanks Maggie, your help is much appreciated. While I can find options to print a pdf a different size from my pdf creator, it doesn't readily give me the option to set that size, preferring a lengthy set of 'standard' sizes so I've not been able to try your approach. But rejigging is to a different size wasn't too much of a problem, having tweaked the margins to bring it back to the same length as before. I would attach the pdf here, but can see absolutely no way of attaching anything unfortunately...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2020 18:03:53 GMT
Thanks Maggie, your help is much appreciated. While I can find options to print a pdf a different size from my pdf creator, it doesn't readily give me the option to set that size, preferring a lengthy set of 'standard' sizes so I've not been able to try your approach. But rejigging is to a different size wasn't too much of a problem, having tweaked the margins to bring it back to the same length as before. I would attach the pdf here, but can see absolutely no way of attaching anything unfortunately... Darren,
Here is the download link for DoPDF.
Open your 6x9 PDF with this software. File/Print/Properties, insert 6.25x9.25 after you click on Custom, 300 dpi, then ok, make sure on the very first page before clicking on properties it says Shrink to printable area. Let me know if it works.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2020 18:06:30 GMT
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Post by benziger on Jun 23, 2020 5:48:21 GMT
Who cares about Linux? Who cares about graphics and who cares about grayscale? Just choose a simple setting from your PDF creator. Simple. The eight-year-old and the granny can do it. No need to know all that nonsense.
Well, I do. And others do too.
If Linux's market share is "only" 2.2%, that are still millions of desktop PC and laptops (250 Million new ones sold every year).
Servers do (about 65% market share) Mobile telephones do (about 82% market share) Super computers do (from the top 500 only 4 runs Windows)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 11:59:23 GMT
Who cares about Linux? Who cares about graphics and who cares about grayscale? Just choose a simple setting from your PDF creator. Simple. The eight-year-old and the granny can do it. No need to know all that nonsense.
Well, I do. And others do too.
If Linux's market share is "only" 2.2%, that are still millions of desktop PC and laptops (250 Million new ones sold every year).
Servers do (about 65% market share) Mobile telephones do (about 82% market share) Super computers do (from the top 500 only 4 runs Windows)
You are correct, but you do not need to know all that stuff to create and upload a simple PDF. For the new or struggling self-publisher, it is overwhelming to think about Linux and marketshares and greyscale and graphics. In that post we were talking about a simple PDF that would be accepted by Ingram Spark, if I recall correctly.
Context is everything.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 12:06:35 GMT
Who cares about Linux? Who cares about graphics and who cares about grayscale? Just choose a simple setting from your PDF creator. Simple. The eight-year-old and the granny can do it. No need to know all that nonsense.
Well, I do. And others do too.
If Linux's market share is "only" 2.2%, that are still millions of desktop PC and laptops (250 Million new ones sold every year).
Servers do (about 65% market share) Mobile telephones do (about 82% market share) Super computers do (from the top 500 only 4 runs Windows)
Actually, my memory failed me in the previous post. The original request for help was for a PDF with bleed.
Here is the post:
Jun 17, 2020 13:09:37 GMT -4 Darren Turner said: Hi everyone, can I ask for some help please? I've been a long-term user of Lulu, but following the recent changes to the site I cannot get the interior pages of a book to upload.
I've always purchased the small paperback book (pocket book, is it?) and my Word documents have all been 10.8cm x 17.46cm. The last one I ordered was in April this year and I've checked the Word doc and the PDF and they are both exactly this size.
I've tried this week to upload a new book of these exact dimensions and it simply won't upload. Lulu's online guide isn't terribly helpful to me, as it's description of the process to convert a Word document to a PDF does not relate to the settings in my version of Word (2010). I have though gleaned that I may now need to be adding some width and height for bleed dimensions (I understand the principle, but have never had to before).
So, adding some 'bleed' to my Word document changes all my formatting, reducing the document from 408 pages to 371 pages. I've then exported this to PDF (and made sure fonts are embedded) and tried to upload this as a test but it still gets the same error message. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be? If this is correct, and that I need to add the bleed where I haven't before, then I will need to reformat the book and also cover which was carefully created for the spine width of a 408 page document.
Any help and suggestions gratefully received.
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Post by benziger on Jun 23, 2020 12:39:01 GMT
Actually, my memory failed me in the previous post. The original request for help was for a PDF with bleed. Right. PDF. And not operating systems.
My operating system speaks German and does not understand this discussion. Other forum users are using an English-speaking operating system, which felt quite offended some days ago. I personally have my preferences, of course, but I can create PDFs with my Quicksilver, my old Macbook, my Linux laptop, my employer's Windows 10 high-end device and my wife's old Windows XP computer. Operating system didn't matter.
This means for us: It is not what we write that is problematic, but how we formulate it. Including me. Once it exceeds purely technical aspects.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 13:15:26 GMT
Actually, my memory failed me in the previous post. The original request for help was for a PDF with bleed. Right. PDF. And not operating systems.
My operating system speaks German and does not understand this discussion. Other forum users are using an English-speaking operating system, which felt quite offended some days ago. I personally have my preferences, of course, but I can create PDFs with my Quicksilver, my old Macbook, my Linux laptop, my employer's Windows 10 high-end device and my wife's old Windows XP computer. Operating system didn't matter.
This means for us: It is not what we write that is problematic, but how we formulate it. Including me. Once it exceeds purely technical aspects.
I agree. But everyone comes with their own life experiences and objectives. We each formulate the best we can while affected by all these.
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Post by Darren Turner on Jun 23, 2020 16:29:07 GMT
Thanks Maggie, for all your help. I think that's the end of the road for me though, as I'm on a works pc and can't download software.
My frustration here is that as of April, everything I'd uploaded to Lulu in the past was fine. And suddenly they change something and it doesn't work anymore. And I can't see that their new 'guidance notes' specify anywhere that a particular sort of pdf is needed, rather than the standard pdf that I've always used in the past. And why have a type of pdf that Word doesn't create? And InDesign doesn't create? And my Acrobat Reader and Expert PDF7 doesn't create? Seems odd! I'd be happier if they'd ever replied to any of my help requests but, to date, they have not.
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Post by benziger on Jun 23, 2020 21:00:00 GMT
I think that's the end of the road for me though, as I'm on a works pc and can't download software. Can't you download software or can't you install software?
You save it in yur Documents folder and can start it with no problems. You have to start the program and then open the documents from the program. For me, PDF made with LibrOffice always worked (old and new Lulu).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 21:54:27 GMT
Thanks Maggie, for all your help. I think that's the end of the road for me though, as I'm on a works pc and can't download software. My frustration here is that as of April, everything I'd uploaded to Lulu in the past was fine. And suddenly they change something and it doesn't work anymore. And I can't see that their new 'guidance notes' specify anywhere that a particular sort of pdf is needed, rather than the standard pdf that I've always used in the past. And why have a type of pdf that Word doesn't create? And InDesign doesn't create? And my Acrobat Reader and Expert PDF7 doesn't create? Seems odd! I'd be happier if they'd ever replied to any of my help requests but, to date, they have not. Darren, my pleasure. As Benziger said, if you change your mind and want to tackle this again there are many other options. I went looking for online PDF printers earlier today and found a couple. Let us know when/if you change your mind.
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