Thanks to you all for your comments. Gtrimpin, I agree with you about asking the printer for the spine size. I found out from my printers here in Cape Town, what paper type they use and they directed me to the website where I calculated the spine size.
Thx for your nice tutorial. One Comment from me who works for a book printer: Don't calculate the spine size on a free webpage... ask your printer for the spine size! We get our paper from different paper mills and adjust the sickness every year because paper is a living material. Some papers (90g/m2, 1,75 Volume) very by 200 pages around 1 mm from one paper mill to another.
@@johndelilo6038 We do produce around 450.000.000 books per year... it is one of our standards to measure the book block before the cover will be added. If we find a difference to what our spine formula will prognosis over time, we will adjust our formula.
@@gtrimpin English doesn't seem to be your first language. You didn't get what my comment was about. Paper does NOT have a *sickness* as you wrote in your comment above. It's called *thickness* ! *sickness* = state of being sick or ill
Hi, thank you for this. What about printer marks for the spine? The printing house needs to have that. If, for instance, the spine is in the same colour as the front cover or back, or both, they will not know where to fold the cover page to fit the spine.
Hi there, Thanks very much for your comment and question. The printer's crop marks get added upon exporting to PDF. There is a setting which you need to do in the export to PDF dialogue box which sets the bleed in place with the crop marks. You'll be able to see this once your cover is exported. You will not need to do this manually. Hope this helps you. Regards to you.
Is it possible to keep front, back and spine as separate pages in one doc, so they can be altered individually (I ask only because often times the spine width gets changed at the last min)? This is how I work on book covers in InDesign, so wondered how that would translate to Publisher.
Hi there Laura, With regard to your question about about individual pages in one document. In my experience of having complete books published, I usually build up a proposed book cover to show the client with the front, back and spine in place. Then once the client has had his/her manuscript edited to their liking and is ready to have it compiled into the layout in Affinity Publisher, I will go ahead with that process until the pages are all laid out and everything is to their liking. Only at the end of that process will I calculate the spine width and design the final version of their cover complete as one page in Affinity Publisher. When they are happy with that then I'll export it out as a completed pdf document with the bleed and crop marks in place ready to be sent off to the printers to be compiled into the finished book. If you have Affinity Designer, then you can build your book cover in there using Artboards. Once you are happy with everything, then open it up directly into Affinity Publisher and export as the complete book cover in one document all in one page with bleed and crop marks. I do no know of a way to create three separate pages within Affinity Publisher and connect them all together as InDesign does and export it from there. Perhaps the Affinity Publisher page on Facebook will have someone there who knows how to do this. facebook.com/groups/afpub Check it out and try asking your question there. Hope my suggestion will help though. Regards to you.
This is honestly a gold mine for those who don't have experience in publishing books. Thank you sir!
Hi there Vjatsheslav,
Thank you very much for your kind comment.
I wish you all the best in your publishing journey.
Kind Regards to you....
Thanks to you all for your comments.
Gtrimpin,
I agree with you about asking the printer for the spine size. I found out from my printers here in Cape Town, what paper type they use and they directed me to the website where I calculated the spine size.
Thx for your nice tutorial. One Comment from me who works for a book printer: Don't calculate the spine size on a free webpage... ask your printer for the spine size!
We get our paper from different paper mills and adjust the sickness every year because paper is a living material. Some papers (90g/m2, 1,75 Volume) very by 200 pages around 1 mm from one paper mill to another.
@gtrimpin How do you adjust the *sickness* every year ?
@@johndelilo6038 We do produce around 450.000.000 books per year... it is one of our standards to measure the book block before the cover will be added. If we find a difference to what our spine formula will prognosis over time, we will adjust our formula.
@@gtrimpin English doesn't seem to be your first language. You didn't get what my comment was about.
Paper does NOT have a *sickness* as you wrote in your comment above. It's called *thickness* !
*sickness* = state of being sick or ill
@@johndelilo6038 :) shame on me - you are right
Hi, thank you for this. What about printer marks for the spine? The printing house needs to have that. If, for instance, the spine is in the same colour as the front cover or back, or both, they will not know where to fold the cover page to fit the spine.
Hi there,
Thanks very much for your comment and question.
The printer's crop marks get added upon exporting to PDF. There is a setting which you need to do in the export to PDF dialogue box which sets the bleed in place with the crop marks.
You'll be able to see this once your cover is exported. You will not need to do this manually.
Hope this helps you.
Regards to you.
very nice tutorial thank you...
Very helpful. Thank you so much!
You are welcome.
Regards to you.
Great (missing) tutorial! Sadly though the online CTP calculator has disappeared.
Hi there,
Thanks for sharing this bit of info since I posted up the tutorial.
Rory, I really like your vids as someone who's not Mr IT.
Hi there,
Thanks very much for your feedback, it's very much appreciated.
Hope your publishing journey is going well.
Kind Regards to you.
Is it possible to keep front, back and spine as separate pages in one doc, so they can be altered individually (I ask only because often times the spine width gets changed at the last min)? This is how I work on book covers in InDesign, so wondered how that would translate to Publisher.
Hi there Laura,
With regard to your question about about individual pages in one document.
In my experience of having complete books published, I usually build up a proposed book cover to show the client with the front, back and spine in place. Then once the client has had his/her manuscript edited to their liking and is ready to have it compiled into the layout in Affinity Publisher, I will go ahead with that process until the pages are all laid out and everything is to their liking. Only at the end of that process will I calculate the spine width and design the final version of their cover complete as one page in Affinity Publisher. When they are happy with that then I'll export it out as a completed pdf document with the bleed and crop marks in place ready to be sent off to the printers to be compiled into the finished book.
If you have Affinity Designer, then you can build your book cover in there using Artboards. Once you are happy with everything, then open it up directly into Affinity Publisher and export as the complete book cover in one document all in one page with bleed and crop marks.
I do no know of a way to create three separate pages within Affinity Publisher and connect them all together as InDesign does and export it from there.
Perhaps the Affinity Publisher page on Facebook will have someone there who knows how to do this.
facebook.com/groups/afpub
Check it out and try asking your question there.
Hope my suggestion will help though.
Regards to you.
@@RoryMolePublishing Thanks, Rory!
Please provide the source file link in description for practice.
Sorry, but there is no source file for this tutorial.
what about the "wrap-over"-part? maybe I should watch the video, huh? otherwise...yeah, where's the "wrap-over", please? thanks!