On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> 1) The PDF file that blurb makes for the contents of the book looks just >> fine, but using their templates etc. the PDF that it makes for the cover >> looks significantly less vivid than the picture in indesign. >> >> 2) Something got tweaked so that it is making the book 9.75" wide rather >> than 9.625". This is causing it to fail preflight, and I can't figure out >> what is wrong. The only page showing up as 9.75" is the title page, but >> making that narrower just makes a white line along one edge of the image in >> the pdf file. >> >> Anybody have any clues on either of these issues? >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> > > I am confused. From InDesign, I would have thought that you would generate a > PDF that then goes to Blurb? You make it sound like Blurb is generating the > PDF (with color issues) from an InDesign output file of some sort.
Indesign generates the PDF using plug-ins downloaded from blurb. Those plugins do a "preflight" and since the file is not the right size, it won't upload. > > In any case, for both issues, I would go ahead and upload the file to Blurb > and then do a 100% preview from there. Give the link to one or two others and > have them double check. Maybe it really is ok. If it looks ok, order. If > not, delete it and go back to trying to diagnosis the issues. An upload costs > nothing but some time. > > stan > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
