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[pdh]

Is there somewhere I can find information about the different pdf export options? export, for print, flatten, etc

I am having trouble exporting a pdf successfully to KDP publishing. It keeps showing up on KDP with messed up margins. Perhaps it is the way I am exporting as a pdf.

Thanks

[Move Along People]

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[Joachim_L]

What is your export option? Are the margins okay before you upload? Normally print should work. Everything checked from the list:

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Manuscript

• Bleed: If your book has images or elements that bleed to the edges of your pages, you must upload your manuscript as a PDF.
• No Bleed: If your book does not contain bleed, you can upload your manuscript as a PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, or TXT file. KDP will automatically convert these file types to PDF prior to publishing/printing.

Cover

You can create your book cover using KDP’s Cover Creator tool or submit your book cover in a PDF. (Cover Creator accepts JPG, PNG, and GIF file formats.)

File specifications

• Embed all fonts and images in your native file prior to submission.
• Transparent objects and layers should be flattened in the native file before publishing.
• Submitted files should not contain crop marks, trim marks, bookmarks, comments, invisible objects, annotations, placeholder text, or metadata.
• All images (both cover and manuscript) should be at least 300 DPI.
• PDFs should be optimized. Optimization is useful to reduce your file size, allowing for higher performance when transferring, uploading, viewing, and printing the files.

Common points of failure

• Not flattening transparent objects and/or layers in the native file
• Locked or encrypted files
• Files with crop marks, trim marks, bookmarks, comments, invisible objects, annotations, placeholder text, or metadata
• Missing pages
• Excessive blank pages
• Title missing on the front cover
• Barcode missing
• Incorrect pagination
• PDF creation logos or watermarks

 

[pdh]

ok thanks. Print didn't work. Margins still come out screwy even though they look fine on my pdf versions. I don't know. Seems like some sort of convesion problem. I will try different pdf formats and see if that makes any difference.