What your book files should look like for prints

Name: What your book files should look like for prints
Uploaded: 2024-10-27T15:30:11+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: Ryan Maloney shows how to set up two PDFs for printing a children's picture book: a cover file with front, spine, and back at 8.5 × 8.5 inches with…

27 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Ryan Maloney shows how to set up two PDFs for printing a children's picture book: a cover file with front, spine, and back at 8.5 × 8.5 inches with bleed, and an interior file with side-by-side artwork pages arranged vertically. Include blank pages if needed to meet minimum page counts.

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These are the book files you need to send to a printer when you're creating a children's picture book. You're going to need one PDF for the COVID This PDF will have the front, the spine, and the back. I use 8.5 by 8.5, and you need to add a bleed to this. Then second, you're going to have an interior PDF file. These are side-by-side artwork pages, but your PDF will most likely look something like this stretched out vertically. I make one cover page Then add in all my page artwork. You can do single pages or full-page spreads, sort of like this one. If you have a minimum page count, you can leave a couple blank pages at the back, and then I put all my information on the back of the book.