Hi everyone. I've had some demand to make a tutorial about how I put together my self-published book, Fervourography. So I have bowed to public demand and rotted away at my computer desk for a few days to present these two tutorials:
Eyespiral's Book Printing Tutorial, and
Eyespiral's Book Binding Tutorial
Be warned, before you commit to downloading them or clicking to see them full-view - they are enormous, i.e. 8.6Mb and 6Mb respectively, and long-winded. They do, however, present a comprehensive explanation of how to create you own A6 hardcover book. And, if you're curious, the cost I calculated for Fervourography turned out to be about $6 per book. Of course, this changes according to your materials and so on, but that's just a guide for you.
CutePDF can be downloaded here.
I hope you find these tutorials interesting and helpful, and not too huge on your internet connection.
~Jessica
Eyespiral's Book Printing Tutorial, and
Eyespiral's Book Binding Tutorial
Be warned, before you commit to downloading them or clicking to see them full-view - they are enormous, i.e. 8.6Mb and 6Mb respectively, and long-winded. They do, however, present a comprehensive explanation of how to create you own A6 hardcover book. And, if you're curious, the cost I calculated for Fervourography turned out to be about $6 per book. Of course, this changes according to your materials and so on, but that's just a guide for you.
CutePDF can be downloaded here.
I hope you find these tutorials interesting and helpful, and not too huge on your internet connection.
~Jessica
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Ah, but I do have a slight question...for you see, I'm currently working on a doujin (self-publishing comic book fan work.) project and was wondering how you would set up full-page images for printing? (I am in possession of Word 2003.)
The pages themselves look much like this [link] (though I assure, the art has been improved from this stage.) and I wish to print them with little to no borders at all so that I'm able to visibly flesh out the drawings as much as possible but at the same time leaving enough room for binding.
What size and formatting options would you recommend for such a feat?
I plan on publishing two sister books, and this tutorial along with the book binding one, will prove their worth really soon, so I must thank you for your help.
One question though: after you have your first book draft, do you edit it yourself or do you let someone else edit it for you?
Because I did so with my first draft, and it almost turned out to be a different book!
Any advice?
(You're a superhero in my eyes)
Again, thank you SO much
You mention Publisher for people wanting to make an A5 book - Do you have a tutorial, or any advise, to someone trying to use Publisher and print an A5 book for the first time?
I'm publishing the biography for my late grandmothers older brother, so I can surprise him this christmas
But I have to ask you a silly question; can I do the same, except instead of A6, I use A5? There isn't much that change, or what?
This is just...wow! I will admit, I got frustrated a few times when I couldn't get something right simply because Microsoft 2oo7 felt like being mean. It is a rather hard program to work with, no? Anywho, I'm not at the printing stage yet, but this has been rather useful so far!
I will have to print out my sister's story at work and that way I will be able to bind it and present it to her at Christmas. This will make it easier to figure out how to go about it, although at work we only have Office 2003.
I do have a question, A6 is called A6 card and A6 card borderless in the page setup for 2003 word. Does it matter which one I choose?
My word 2003 doesn't have 'A6 card' at all, how strange! Perhaps its coz mine is an aussie version. I didn't know there was such thing, but perhaps that's it. Anyway, I'd be inclined to choose 'A6 card borderless' since you don't want to have it make your pages even smaller. However, I don't really know what the difference will be. Perhaps, if you want to be sure, you could fill four 'a6 card' and 4 'a6 card borderless' pages with text and then print them 4 to an a4 page to compare how they come out.
Hope this helps - when you finish yours, please please take a photo and link me to it? I'd love to see. Thanks!
Jessica.
Thank you for providing the gallery with such awesome Resources.