It made it easier to flow lots of text between different pages and around photos.īlurb has details on its website of how to set up margins and page sizes et cetera in Affinity Publisher. My husband used a computer programme called Affinity Publisher to lay out the book and create a PDF, he said it cost under £30 to download from and has lots of video tutorials on You Tube. Hope all this makes more sense to you than it does to me ! He found that after ordering the print book an option was available to create a PDF for an e-book. It gives you details on how to import text from Word.Īlternatively if you design your cookbook with photographs as well as text in Word, you can save it as a PDF, and use the blurb option where you upload a PDF file from any application to create the book. Once you have modified it to create your own you can click on save layout and use it for future pages.Īt the top of the interface there is a selection called text files. Layouts can be modified so if you choose the template that isn’t quite right, you can resize text boxes or delete them and draw your own, and the same can be done with photo boxes. Then you can cut and paste text from Word into the text box and format it however you want.Ĭlick on the T option and then draw a box on the page. In bookwright you can add text boxes where ever you want on the page using the text tool. If you click on the exclamation mark, it should resize the picture to the largest size that will reproduce well.įor combining photographs with lots of text. Locate the.blurb file, in your Downloads folder. Click the Download Template button above. Install the BookWright app on your Mac or PC. The soft cover is easily bendable, which was also expected. To download, you’ll need to scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Download button. As expected it’s pretty thin, with only 26 pages of content. For photos - generally aim for between 250 and 300 pixels per inch.īookwright should put an exclamation mark in the top right hand corner of the photo if it thinks the resolution is too low. First impressions: The book came well-packaged and in perfect condition.
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