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Option 2: Create a New Book Using a New Custom Theme 1. Open Aperture 2. Click the New icon in the upper left corner, then select Book from the dropdown menu 3. Choose a Book Name for your book 4. Select “Custom” from the Book Type dropdown menu, then click “New Theme...” 5. Enter a Theme Name and enter 8.5 inches for the Width and 11 inches for the Height 6. Set the Image Spacing to whatever you want (this is the space that will be added between images in layouts that contain multiple images) 7. Set the Margins: Top: 0.375 in. | Bottom: 0.375 in. | Inside: 0.25 in. | Outside: 0.5 in. 8. Click OK, then click Choose Theme to create your book
Some Tips for Adding Content • Keep in mind that perfect bound publications can be anywhere from 8 to 384 pages long, but the total page count needs to be a multiple of 2. You can add and delete pages using the + and - buttons under the page display. • When adding text, don’t go beyond the theme margins (the edge of the image in the 1-up layout). The margins are set to the edge of the safe zone, and any text placed outside this area is in danger of being trimmed off in the print version. • If you have a lot of large photos in your publication, or if it is a lot of pages, it’s possible that your final PDF will be over MagCloud’s 300MB upload limit. If this happens, there are a few things you can do to reduce the file size after you export the PDF from Aperture. Using Apple Preview (slight reduction in file size): 1. Open your PDF from Aperture with Apple Preview and go to File > Export (Lion and newer version) or File > Save As (older versions) 2. Select a name for the new file and select “Create Generic PDFX-3 Document” from the Quartz Filter dropdown menu. Do not select “Reduce File Size” as this will drastically reduce the resolution of your images and they will look pixelated in print. 3. Click Save Using Adobe Acrobat Pro (large reduction in file size): 1. Open your PDF from Aperture with Adobe Acrobat Pro and go to Advanced > PDF Optimizer 2. Select “Retain existing” from the Make Compatible With dropdown menu 3. Check the box next to Images and select “Bicubic Downsampling to” from all three Downsample dropdown menus and enter 300 ppi in all six text boxes. For both Color and Grayscale Images select “JPEG” from the Compression dropdown menu, and for Monochome select “Retain Existing”. Set Quality to “High” for Color and Grayscale images. 4. Leave the box next to Fonts unchecked 5. Check the box next to Transparency and select “High Resolution” 6. Check the boxes for Discard Objects, Discard User Data and Clean Up, and check all the boxes contained within each of these three tabs 7. Click OK 8. When prompted, select a name for the new smaller file and click Save
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