Landscape v Portrait

[DrJill]

Hi,

I'm designing my photo plus text book, 13" x 11" in Word and saving as a doc file, because things got reformatted when I converted to PDF. As suggested, I saved my template at "portrait" but kept the size as width-13" and height- 11". Word is picking up on the mistake and when I go to page layout, it still says the orientation is "landscape". When I change it to "portrait" it changes the whole page and I have to redo the page again.

Suggestions????

Thanks,

Jill

[Ken Anderson]

You must create your book as Landscape 13x11.
If you upload the finished .doc Lulu will create a landcsape PDF.

If you create your own PDF then you must ensure the pDF setting are for landscape and size 13x11  otherwise you will end up with wrongly orientated PDF.

[DrJill]

Thanks

[GWA]

The same subject but a different question. I am new on Lulu. My first book had two files, both .doc. The first was a one-page 8.5x11 introduction in portrait view, the second was 189-page 11x8.5 table in landscape view. It came out fine. I have a second book, very similar, with one page portrait and 134 page table. I cannot get it to load - either it resizes the landscape to portrait, or says it can't do different sizes. I would like to show you the files and the print-ready, but I don't know how. 

A different book attempt has all interior pages in 11x8.5 landscape view. It resizes all to portrait view. I do not see a an allowable size of 11x8.5 in the price table.

[samer]

Hi,

I'm creating a 11X8.5 (landscape) book and want to know if you found a solution. Is it possible to publish on lulu.com with that size?

[Ken Anderson]

Read this 

[Brkie]

Hello,

I am just starting to upload my word docs into adobe .pdf format.  I want to create a 9X7 landscape book.  I am very confused by these directions from David Woodward:

Set document pages to Portrait orientation, not Landscape.

POD printers tend to print landscape pages sideways, so even if you are creating a wide format book (9 x 7), the uploaded source document page orientation must be set to Portrait, with page dimensions defined with the wider width than height.

Very confused here.

[kevinlomas]

Take a look at the date of the last reply posted in here.