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Topic: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

Over the many years that I have had Page Plus (upgraded over the years and now with X7), I have put together a variety of Family Projects. Aware that over time linking photos used tend to get moved on my PC, I have always exported each page as a jpeg.

However, every now and again I think it would be nice to get a specific project professionally printed in a book form, as a birthday/Christmas present. I know there are various websites which do this but have always stopped because of a feeling that I should have had a larger gap down alternate pages re the book opening side. (I think I have always completed every page within the blue guidelines if that makes any difference.)

What I would really like is some form of an ‘Idiot’s Website’ in which one can upload a few pages to see what the end result would look like before going ahead to do any printing, and thus one can maybe attempt to adjust as necessary. 

Is there such a website around, or, does anyone have any suggestions if I finally do take the plunge and get a past project(s) printed?

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

Just a few comments:

Aware that over time linking photos used tend to get moved on my PC, I have always exported each page as a jpeg

That would make any further editing more difficult. Embedding any pictures would ensure that they remained in the project even if they were deleted from, or moved on, your computer. Saving as a package would also allow the project to be opened intact with PagePlus on a different computer.

a feeling that I should have had a larger gap down alternate pages re the book opening side.

You can set mirrored margins in Booklet mode to enable this.

few pages to see what the end result would look like

Doesn't Print Preview in PagePlus allow this?

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

Thankyou for your thoughts.

Sadly though my projects are long completed and now and again just think it would be nice to maybe get a Project printed. .

Perhaps it may not be possible although I think now probably my best way forward is to just contact potential Printers.

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

George,

How many pages are in these potential books? How many copies would want to be printed?

You may still be able to use your PagePlus X7 to produce a PDF file for printing.

Geoff

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

Geoff,

Admittedly before attempting to try, I don’t actually envisage a problem in converting my jpeg pages to a pdf format, whether via Page Plus, or, if necessary, I do happen to have an Old Abby Fine Reader program that am sure would do the job if necessary.

As to the number of potential books of any project or number of pages? I think that is something like the ‘chicken and egg question, what came first.’ At the moment I cannot envisage wanting more than 1 or 2 copies, and as to number of pages, that for me I think, would be determined by cost and how easily I could split a Project.

These will be all A4 page books. Although I think everything I have done has been within the blue Page Plus Guide Lines, what I was more hoping for was to have an idea of what the finished book would look like before deciding to go ahead.

Hence my ideal of transferring page(s) to a template and then getting a green tick, or, a red cross as to whether it was suitable for that printed book design. Maybe this is just wishful thinking or I await a future Ai.

George

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

Perhaps something like KDP from Amazon may help. It may be overkill, but it will enable you to print your books to order, in paper and hard back.
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202172740 should give you an overview of the process.
There are a number of YouTube videos on the KDP channel as well to give you help:
https://www.youtube.com/@AmazonKDP/featured

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

I've used Lulu https://www.lulu.com/ very successfully as a print shop. They can print single copies or multiple copies from a PDF file containing the interior pages and a second PDF file containing the cover. cover.
I will admit that I've generated the PDFs from Affinity Publisher, but many were from PDFs originally created in PagePlus/

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

Still not ready to do anything but will certainly checkout Lulu.

Thankyou

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

Email me on millrind(at)btinternet(dot)com and send me a ppp and I'll see what I can do to help.
John

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Re: Any suggestions to help get past PP projects printed

I've certainly and successfully had a book published by lulu.com - a very professional outfit.

Since PP6 didn't support PDF printing but assuming you are using a (slightly) more modern machine - do you not have access to Microsoft's own "print to PDF" as a printer driver?

I have long used PagePlus, almost from its inception after graduating from my Atari many years ago and was very disappointed when, with the advent of Affinity Publisher, support for the old file format was not automatically protected for those of us who had so long supported Serif! It felt like a real kick in the teeth!

Ian