Possibly useful info for Publisher users making books on Blurb/MagCloud

[MikeA]

I've been corresponding with MagCloud/Blurb tech support, trying to pin down what they think might be the right Publisher settings for PDFs submitted to them. It's uncharted territory. They don't have experience yet with Affinity Publisher — they have InDesign and QXP templates but none for Publisher — and Serif hasn't commented much about Magcloud/Blurb that I know of.

I did a lot of book pagination in the past, but it was always someone else who did the final prepress work. Blurb has a page that could be useful for people like me who don't have much experience with setting up documents for CMYK processes. The most rudimentary color-management info on the page, I already know. It was the soft-proofing bit that caught my eye.

https://www.blurb.com/blog/color-management-printing/

The web page contains a link to the company's own ICC profile, useful for soft proofing. Scroll down to the What is a Color Profile? subhead, then look in the second paragraph below it for The Blurb ICC Profile is based on the GRACoL2009 reference (etc.). The link to the ICC profile is in that sentence.
 

[KC Honie]

Here is PrestoPhoto's take on using Affinity Publisher...

It is much more in-depth than Blurbs PDF discussion.

I am presently working on an 11 x 8.5 photo book template.  I will post it up when I get further along.

https://www.prestophoto.com/help/Affinity+Publisher

PS. Also working on a 12x12...

[KC Honie]

Here is a very early (still working on it rev. 1) 12x12 hardcover book template designed for presto photo.

It has 8 master pages and I am sure it is full of errors, but it is a start.

If anyone makes interesting changes please re-upload.

 

 

12x12 Photobook r1.aftemplate