Screen Captures and Site Help

Acrobat Tip: Previewing Your Photo Book Preview PDF

In Adobe Acrobat, you can change your view to get a better feel for how your book will look. From the top menu bar, choose __View -> Page Layout -> Continuous Facing__ and you will see your book how it will appear when printed. If you are viewing the PDF in your browser, use the MULTI-UP ICON in the LOWER RIGHT of your BROWSER

Mac Preview Tip: Previewing Your Photo Book Preview PDF

In Apple's Preview, you can change your view to get a better feel for how your book will look. From the top menu bar, choose __View -> PDF Display__ and check all options: __Facing Pages, Continuous, Book Mode__. This will let you see the interior of your book how it will appear when printed.

Annotated Acrobat Screenshot

This screenshot helps explain many of the Viovio BookMaker features and how they relate to your image galleries.

Adjusting Die-cut Cover Padding

This is an excellent example of using a custom die-cut padding to allow a portion of the cover image to peak through the die-cut window. However, the full-wrap cover is still large and dramatic for maximum effect with perfect binding.

Microsoft Applications Slicing PDF Images

For unknown reasons, Microsoft applications often slice a full size image into many equal slices. Unfortunately, the printer sees these as individual images, which they are. We are still trying to track down why this is, and how to prevent it. If you have any information, please leave a comment!

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CMYK vs RGB

For most photographs, we recommend you use RGB since that is native to most cameras. The printer however, uses CMYK. Most of the time, this is not a problem. However, it you get into advanced layout and design, you can see in this example the problems that can arise. Because CMYK has fewer colors than RGB, some color information can be lost when moving from the source image to the printer, or you can see a dramatic color shift. For cases like this, we recommend users upload a <a href="/products/pdf/">complete PDF</a> with the images already in the CMYK color space. Currently, our BookMaker does not handle CMYK images properly - something we hope to address soon.

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DO NOT DELETE! This image is used for single sided pages in the BookMaker.