![]() This also means you need to remove the front and back cover pages from your digital file, unless you want them to be printed pages inside your book. This wrap-around cover file is used to print the cover of the book which will then be attached to the book block (the body of the text) during the binding process. In addition, most printers want a separate cover file which contains the front cover, back cover, and spine. Essentially, the printer needs a file that contains only the text and graphical information present in the book. Unlike your first file-which contains layers, bookmarks, hyperlinks, and tags-the print file will be flattened (that is, the layers will be compressed into a single layer) and the interactive elements removed. After creating your fancy (and hopefully accessible) PDF for digital distribution, you’ll need to generate a second file. PDFs that people download for use on their computers, tablets, and smartphones aren’t going to be the same ones you send to your printer. Hopefully you’ll be able to use this information as a jumping off point to continue your research, assuming you’re even going to create a book for print. Instead of a step-by-step guide on setting up your print documents, I’m going to cover a few topics in broader strokes. It’s just a random book I found and selected to illustrate my point.) (This is not an affiliate link I don’t get paid if you buy this book. Here’s a 336 page book on Amazon that is said to be an introduction to the topic. On the D&D 3 rd Edition / Pathfinder size scale, prepping a PDF for print would be Colossal. I decided it’d be a good idea to do a tutorial about preparing your PDFs to send to your printer, but then I actually began thinking about it and realized this is a big topic. Specifically, they had a question about one part of the process of setting up their files to be ready for DriveThruRPG’s Print On Demand (POD) service. Last week, someone asked me a question about preparing their PDF for print.
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