Creating print ready pdf files

Each Adobe program handles bleeds a little bit differently. Below are examples of how to work with bleeds in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.

Enter 0p9 or. When your document opens you will see a red box surrounding your page area, this is the bleed. Make sure that the object you want to bleed extends all the way to this red box, not just to the edge of the page.

Below are examples of correct and incorrect uses of bleed. Illustrator has the same bleed setup as indesign. Refer to the above info when creating your document.

Photoshop - Bleeds. There are no bleed settings available in Photoshop when you make a new document. Here's what you need to remember about color before you send your file to your printer.

A printing press uses a color space called CMYK to produce similar colors using just four colors of ink: cyan, magenta, yellow and black, also know as 4 color process. When you send your files to a commercial printer, they must be in the CYMK color space. Have questions or need help generating your print ready files? Call us now at or. If any images in the file are low resolution, you will see a warning and the pages to review.

Same as Step 4, an uploaded file with multiple layers will display a notification that layers were flattened. Introduced nearly 30 years about by Adobe , the Portable Document Format or PDF is a file format designed to ease the sharing and distribution of content.

PDFs are the single most versatile and simple to share a file, offering consistency across a range of writing, editing, and design platforms. Printing a book always begins from a PDF. Lulu has a set of rules we need files to adhere to. But not all of them.

Look for dots per inch dpi for all your images. PDF and image compression is common for software like MS Word, so be on the lookout for anything that may shrink your file size. Now, if the original image is less than dpi, it may not be possible to achieve the image resolution we require. You can use lower resolution images, but the print quality may be off. Includes PDF specifications, spine guides, and formatting terms to help you print your book.

Color Space defines the specific set of colors and how they are organized. Importantly, you want to be sure your file uses the same color space our printers use so that we can be sure to the colors you see on your screen match the colors in the printed book. Software like InDesign , Affinity Publisher , or even Scribus offers more control over a range of settings, including image quality and color space. Traditionally, crop marks indicate where the printers should trim the page.

Crop marks are helpful when laying out your file. Just be sure to turn them off before exporting your final PDF. The Bleed is a slightly larger margin applied to the edge of every page to ensure the page can be trimmed down to the final size. For most common printers, bleed is 0. Once the pages are printed out, the 0. A file that does not include that extra 0. The result can be pages with a thin white border.

In Word, this means adjusting your page size and margins to allow for that extra 0. Other file layout programs, like InDesign, will allow you to set up your file for bleeds when you create the document. The above image highlights the dangers of printing without bleed. The cut edge of the page is the black border, leaving the page on the right with white edges around the light-blue background. For those interested in further reading about graphic design and bleed, I recommend this article from Stack Exchange.

While there are many compelling reasons to use common fonts for your book, you might want to use a unique font for some chapter titles. These pages have drop folios. Position drop folios one line below the bottom of the last line of type. Chapter number: Set in bold, approx. Position flush left.

If you allow space above the chapter number from the top of the page for visual appearance , you must be consistent throughout the book. Allow one line of space below to chapter title. It is not necessary to use the word "chapter" before the number. Chapter title: Set in bold, 16 to 22 point type. Do not break hyphenate words at the ends of lines in chapter titles. Align flush left. Allow two lines of space below to chapter author or six lines of space below to text if you are the sole author.

Allow six lines of space below to text. First level heads: Set in bold caps, 10 point type. Allow two lines of space above unless occurring on the first line of text and one line of space below. Depending on your subject matter and audience, first level headings might use double-digit identifiers for chapter and section i.

Check with your Wiley contact if you are unsure whether to number your headings. Depending on your subject matter and audience, second level headings might use triple-digit identifiers for chapter, section, and subsection i.

Position flush left with two lines of space above unless occurring on the first line of text. Follow heading with a period, space, then text. Avoid the use of identifiers if possible.

Do not use numeric and alphabetic identifiers i. A, respectively. Position flush left with two lines of space above unless occurring on the first text line.

If your manuscript has more than four levels of headings, additional design specifications can be supplied. Numbered list: Set in text type. Follow periods with one space, then start text. Identifiers in parentheses align at right. Use open and closed parentheses, not a single closing parentheses. Allow one line of space above and below the list to text. Bulleted list: Set in text type. Turnover lines should align under the first word not the bullet.

Multicolumn lists: Set in text type. Lists with multiple columns should center as a block on the page. Align columns on left edge or on mathematical symbols equal signs, decimals, etc. Allow one line of space above and below list to text. Set in 9 point type. If references are numbered, type the numbers flush left, followed by a period and a space.

Clear for double digits and align the periods after the numbers. Turnover lines should align under the first word not the reference number. Do not set extra line spaces between numbered entries. If references are not numbered, type the first line of the entry flush left; turnover lines have a paragraph indent.

The "Reference" heading should be set in the style of a first-level heading for end-of-chapter References; use the chapter title style for the word "References" if all references for the entire book occur in their own section after the last text chapter. Center on the page and allow one line of space above and below to text. Equations should be the same point size as the text. Allow a half line of space between groups of equations. Enclose equation numbers in parentheses and position flush to the right margin.

When a display equation runs two or more lines, the equation number appears flush right on the last line of the equation. When a long equation breaks to another line, align the second line of the equation on the operator sign. Equations are generally numbered consecutively in each chapter and are identified by double digits-chapter and equation number. Center on page and allow one line of space above and below to text. Allow a half line of space between groups of structures or schemes. It is usual for structure numbers to set in bold and compound names to set in lightface.

Labels above and below reaction arrows should set in 7 point type. Number the figures with Arabic numerals. Illustrations are consecutively double-numbered in each chapter.

Set the word "Figure" and the number in bold, followed by a period and space. The remaining caption should be set in regular type not bold. Figure captions should be set to the full width of the page and positioned below the art. If the figure caption runs shorter than the full width of the page, center the caption beneath the figure.

Allow a half line of space below the illustration to the caption. Figures should be positioned at the top or bottom of the page. Avoid placing figures in the middle of the text. Footnotes are set in 8 point type and appear at the bottom of the page where they are cited. Wiley font policy in a nutshell: Fonts are intellectual property and as such require a license to be obtained for anything that is not personal or non-commercial use.

All Wiley publishing is defined as commercial. For print products, only the organization or individual who generates the files needs to hold the license for each font. With author-supplied print-ready files, that means the author has this responsibility.