On Friday, 6 March 2020 13:49:14 GMT Šarūnas wrote: > On 3/6/20 8:20 AM, Graham Dicker wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am hoping to use Scribus to make a photo book with Whitewall Photobooks. > > They give dimension details for the cover as: > > > > Page Requirements Millimeter > > Cover PDF Dimensions Including Trim (W x H) 654.4 x 262 > > Cover Bleed (Top | Bottom | Left | Right) 23 mm | 23 mm | 23 mm | 23 mm > > Visible Cover Dimensions (W x H) 608.4 x 216 > > Spine 8 mm > > Number of Pages (Double Pages) 1 > > > > I am using Scribus version 1.4.7. It is the version supplied with my > > distribution OpenSuse 15.0. > > > > So I created an empty document with the above dimensions and need to put > > in a text frame to define the spine of the book and also two image frames > > for the front and back pages. Although I have a general understanding of > > what the bleed areas are for, I don't know if my frames are supposed to > > overlap into the bleed areas or not and if they are, by how much. > > It looks like your chosen cover option wraps around the edges > (“hardcover”, “imagewrap”), therefore large bleed values. Then yes, > image frames should wrap around quite a bit, though not necessarily all > the way to 23mm. Extremities of bleed area should be covered by the End > Paper you choose in book configuration. > > > Am I doomed anyway because my version can't use the inDesign files or do > > Job Options? > > Most likely not doomed at all. jobotions file looks like that for > Acrobat Distiller. It's been a while since I had to use one, but it's a > text file and options can be seen. I haven't used Whitewall, so perhaps > I better do not advice much, except that it may make sense to do a small > test print.
Šarūnas, thanks for your help. The bleed for the inside pages is 3mm so it would make sense to me to use a 3mm overlap into the 25mm wrapping area of the cover too. On re-reading the instructions I now realise I was misunderstanding what the Job Options file was for. I thought it was something I had to send to Whitewall but no, it's only used for producing the PDFs from Distiller. Graham ___ Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
