Thanks Stan, Ken, John I should have taken a look at Blurb's FAQs before posting the question. Having now done so, I see that their latest software does provide a 'two page spread option' but it's fairly inflexible and not really suitable for my layout. They don't really address the issue of 'lost' content along the centre, other than suggesting that important content not be placed there.
Obviously I'm going to have to play around with the layout a bit and keep my fingers crossed that the final result looks acceptable. Allowing a bit of overlap on each page should minimise the lost content (hopefully...) Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 5:24 PM, "Stan Halpin" <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a frequently asked question and, as you might expect, is covered > in their FAQs. > The answer has changed as their printing/binding process has changed. I > don't recall the new details. > But the old approach was to take two copies of the pano sized to fit the > 2640x2 size of the two pages together, drop one on the left page, left > justified, drop the other on the right page, right justified, and tweek > horizontal positioning to apparent goodness. The pink zone in preview > mode gives a good indication of what may be vanishing into the > interpaginal void. > > stan > > On Oct 4, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > > > G'day all > > > > I'm putting together a Blurb book of my recent travels in central > > Australia. > > > > I have one image, a panorama, that I'd like to use across two facing > > pages by splitting the image into two equal halves, but I'm a bit > > concerned about 'losing' part of the image in the middle due to the book > > binding. I estimate that the binding will hide almost a centimetre of > > the middle of the image. > > > > The question. > > > > Would it be practical to leave a gap between the two halves of the image > > so that the gap would fall in the binding area and minimise the amount > > of the panorama that would be 'lost' to the binding? > > > > Has anyone tried this? The only problem that I can see is working out > > how much of a gap to leave - I obviously don't want to make the gap too > > wide and end up with a blank strip down the middle of the image. I'm > > thinking of a conservative gap of about 3-4 mm on each half. > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > > Western Sydney Australia > > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > -- > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
