Apple iPhoto Book Printing

Hello,

I uploaded one pdf created in iPhoto. My outside cover looks okay, but the flaps of the dust jacket seem to have become the first and last pages of the book, which I definitely don't want. Step 2 has been generating a preview of my dust jacket for more than 20 minutes. Do I need to start over with two separate pdf files?

Thanks,
PW

Hi, Paula!

Our engineering team has fixed the issue. Please try to upload a gain and email support@viovio.com if you continue to have trouble!

Viovio Support

Hi there,

iPhoto limits user to 100 page photo books.
Is it possible to upload 2 iPhoto books and have them put into the one book and have a 300 0r 400 page book?

Greetings from Viovio, thank you for your email.

You can save the projects as 2 separate pdf's and then combine them using preview. Here's a link that will walk you through how to do this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4075 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdlLuG0WcmU

Best,
Viovio support
support@viovio.com

Hello Support,

When I print to pdf in iPhoto, will the pdf have the approrpiate amount of bleed or am i going to lose 1/8 inch around each margin? If so, I will have to save the albulm as a bunch of jpeg files, import into Adobe Photoshop / InDesign, and resize each page.

Also, I am unclear how to create 2 page spreads in Photoshop / Indesign taking into account overlap and bleed. Do I only overlap into the area where there is no bleed and still leave the exterme 1/8th inch blank? You also recommend an additional 1/4 inch saftey zone around each page. How does that factor into the spread creation? Can you direct me to a tutorial or give a work or two of advice.

Thank you for your help.

Daniel,

Greetings from Viovio!

iPhoto books are subject to the 1/4 inch trim that occurs in Production, however this typically does not interfere with iPhoto layouts. Occasionally when customers order an Imagewrap Hardcover the iPhoto cover text falls over the Hardcover fold line. And if a iPhoto creator pushes their text to the very edge of the page this can be a concern but when this happens, rarely, it is caught by QA and the customer is notified and simply goes back, moves their text in a little, and then re-uploads the file.

Once you upload your book you can easily view the pages in association with the Red Crop Guide offered at Step 3 in the Layout Previews.

You can read more about Cropping and Bleed here: http://www.viovio.com/wiki/Cropping+And+Bleed

And here is a link to trouble-shooting using other software that you were asking about - bleeds are addressed here as well: http://www.viovio.com/software

As a general rule of thumb for creating 2 page spreads you would allow for a bit of an overlap for each side of the picture - .25" on each side. This then falls into the gutter and the picture lines up appropriately. The Flip Preview at Step 3 will give you a good idea what your two page spread will look like. We do not recommend for designers to account for any bleed by using blank white space - unless white space is what is intentionally desired. This (if not trimmed or "guttered" properly) allows for to much contrast and typically stands out very much. It is safer to allow more non-vital content, background color, or overlapping image to be what is allowed for the bleeds and the gutter.

If you have other questions or if I missed something let us know!

Viovio support
support@viovio.com

Hello Viovio Support,

When I uploaded the PDF file generated by iPhoto 9.1.1 (right-click on the background area of the pages display, then "Save Book as PDF..."), I saw that I had the problem described before that the first two pages of the PDF file are the complete covers, one with flaps, the other without flaps. Reading the instructions again, I noticed that you're using the Print menu, and then PDF -> Save as PDF... This second method seems to produce a file corresponding to what Viovio expects; the problem here is that the new file size is 574MB instead of the 68MB produced by the first (and more convenient) method. Therefore, my questions are:
1.- Is the quality of the small file enough for printing a photo book?
2.- Would the printed book be of better quality if the large were used?
3.- Is there a way of fine-tuning the quality (and size) of a PDF file without buying an expensive product?
4.- Do you have plans to support the first (smaller) file format?
5.- Do you have plans to allow more than 500MB of storage per user?

Thank you very much for any advice.

Alain.

Alain,

Greetings from viovio and thanks for your interest.
Please send a note to support@viovio.com with your user i.d and we'll take a look at your book :)

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