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Oh! The corruption! [From The Coast of Good Intentions by Michael Byers, published by Mariner (Houghton Mifflin), 1998. This is a book of short stories. It was originally printed on white, acidic paper that has turned yellow over time.]

Wosven, My point is that we needn't be hidebound (English, meaning unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention) in this matter. And guess what. You have proven my point for me!

Wosven, Who thinks the readability is better? Do you have data establishing it as so? And what about design? Designers at Random House agree with me. See below from p. 42, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike, 1989, Random House. This is a matter of art, not history.

I am a freelance book interior designer. I am essentially self-taught, but I love doing this, and I am learning. (Sample attached.) I try to find work via freelancer platforms like Upwork and Guru.com. Question: how do you deal with clients who know little about publishing books or desktop publishing and yet insist their print-ready PDF must be created with InDesign? I recently sent a potential employer, who had very modest design needs, this rather ineloquent explanation—which isn't likely to persuade him: Any and all advice is welcome! Book-Formatting-Sample-A.zip

Lagarto, Never mind! I just found the Add option for adding a layer. Thanks again for your assistance.

Lagarto, I follow you with regard to the vector crop tool. However, I don't understand how to append a layer ID.

Lagarto, Great information. Thank you.

Lagarto, Thanks. I looked at your retest.afpub. I don't understand why the bottom image was upscaled but the top image was not.

thomaso, When I tried this I got a different result. I placed an image at 100 dpi into a blank page and exported as PDF/X-1a:2003, 300dpi. Opening the resulting PDF in both Affinity and a third-party app, the image dpi is shown as 100. Is there a setting that I missed that resamples ("up samples") the image at export?

v_kyr, That is what I have always done, but I received a new job that had been started by someone else. Oddly, all the images in her file are at 100 PPI. I will meet this person tomorrow and discuss this issue. Thank you for your assistance!

v_kyr, So, are you saying that if the placed PPI of an image in the project file is 72, and I export at 300 PPI, then the image in the exported PDF will be at 300 PPI?

IngramSpark requires print-ready PDFs be exported at 300 PPI. But IngramSpark's guide also says images of 72 PPI are acceptable! To me, this is confusing. If the export is at 300 PPI, shouldn't all images be 300 PPI too?

Ever worrisome is The Guardian: The agency’s investigation “will have global reach”.

If I have only 8GB RAM and I am working on a large, image-heavy file, how should I set "RAM usage limit" to give me the best performance? At 8GB? At something lower? Or would this setting make any difference to performance?

Eze, I successfully met the printer’s requirements simply by increasing the bleed. Widening the bleed also moves the crop marks out. Here is part of the printer's requirements: PRINT AD FILE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES • Press Optimized or PDF-X-1A PDFs are required. • If an ad is intended to bleed, crop marks must be applied with an offset of 0.250”; a minimum of 0.125” bleed beyond the trim is required. The printer specified the bleed as a minimum.