Formatting

[bindal123]

Just got my book published, and must say it was a great pain with uploading etc / embedding fonts and so on.

Got my copy of the book, and in it I have 3 images which are totally BLACK, The PDF file was Ok and clearly showed the image properly, so what went wrong???

> How do i REVISE the project?

> Also any easy way to embed fonts?

> LULU - it would help if you had LIVE HELP................. you take a week to respond to emails.

[Peter May]

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bindal123 wrote:

Just got my book published, and must say it was a great pain with uploading etc / embedding fonts and so on.

Got my copy of the book, and in it I have 3 images which are totally BLACK, The PDF file was Ok and clearly showed the image properly, so what went wrong???

Sorry, don't know.

> How do i REVISE the project?

Uh.. Go into My Lulu, select your project and Revise

> Also any easy way to embed fonts?

Depends what product you are using. Its dead simple on MS-Word - just Save as PDF and select in Options ISO19005 PDF/A, otherwise there ar efree PDF utilities

> LULU - it would help if you had LIVE HELP................. you take a week to respond to emails.

It is self publishing -- it is free -- there aren't hordes of staff waiting around to answer questions and you cannot expect hand holding. The idea is Lulu prints what you send them.

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[bindal123]

Need help

I have my book on MS Word  2007, I than on word document SAVE as PDF > the PDF comes out perfectly, the way I want it, But unable to upload it to LULU, as error message coming with EMBED FONTS

Sorry guys, can some guide me step by step - an IDIOTS guide how to resolve this problem. Looked at few online help on this and i cannot understand. HELP

2nd Option I did was to upload the docx file > and let lulu make PRINT ready file, but the end product is not what i want, ie tha paragraph formating > particulaly the paragrapg alighnment has changed

HELP!!!

[unclephil]

I had the blank image issue when I first started out. I think it is something to do with the images being too large or with too many dpi or something. This is one of the reasons why it pays to check the uploaded Print Ready PDF as well as the PDF that you upload.

There is a page on Lulu about setting Open Office "Export as PDF" and adopting the image compression suggested there will solve this. While the "publish as PDF" mode of Word is very nice, you don't have as much control over the output as you do on Open Office. Probably if you are publishing just pure text the PDF/A mode works OK. My book (see below (you are feeling sleepy and will buy a copy)) had images so I found the only real solution was to transfer everything over to Open Office. I did try a few on-line converters but those were not much good.

Quick answer -Use Open Office and set the Export PDF settings to what is recommended by Lulu.

Proof read like crazy, with different magnification of page views, non-printing characters on and off etc. Convert to PDF and proof read that. Then once you upload, open the Print Ready version and give that a look over too.

[unclephil]

You seem to have posted while I was replying. Ticking the box to output as PDF/A should solve the Embde fonts problem with MSWord.
For the images, you will save a bundle of time going to Open Office -it is a free program so all it will cost you is you may have to tweak the format of your former word doc. I find that Open Office handled images and reference fields better than MS word once you worked out how the Anchor setting worked.

[Peter May · Accepted solution]

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bindal123 wrote:

 I have my book on MS Word  2007, I than on word document SAVE as PDF > the PDF comes out perfectly, the way I want it, But unable to upload it to LULU, as error message coming with EMBED FONTS

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As I already said

 Its dead simple on MS-Word - just Save as PDF. When you do that you get a button marked OPTIONS. Click that and tick the box marked ISO19005 PDF/A.

That will embed your fonts unless you have fonts that cannot be embedded fro copyright reasons.

So once you have created your PDF open it, select File>Properties>Fonts

You should see a listof the fonts with the word embedded. Any are not embedded will likely have to be changed. But if you are using standard fonts from MS Word you should be OK

It might be worth first saving your MS Word doc as Word 97-2003 as that default docx is a pain.

[Ken Anderson]

Brindal,
See the PM (Personal Message) I sent you.

[bindal123]

Thanks all > managed to do it!

Phew was hard work! > just need a Tick 

LOL

thanks all for the help

[bindal123]

Thank! - DONE - yes dead simple.

took me ages to figure out

[Lottie]

When embedding fonts and making a PDF, if you find errors in your PDF and need to correct them and make a new one, should you always embed again before you make the new PDF.  I know this sounds stupid (boy am I opening myself up for it here!) but I ask because I read someplace that you shouldn 't embed more than once.