Final Preparations for your Viovio book

November 18th, 2007 by Heidi

Putting your pages in the right order:

Most online printing places allows you to order pages when you upload and Viovio does too.

I just find it easier to order my pages before I upload in Photo Manager. Here’s what I do:

• So I look in my folder where I saved all my pages.
• In ACDSee Photo Manager, I drag and drop my thumbnails to reorder them in the order that I want them to appear in the book.
• Things to remember in printing books:
  • The first page will be by itself on the right side of the page.
  • If you continue counting, even page numbers are on left and odd are on right side of pages.
• So the easy way, once you have your pages in the correct order, is to rename them with the page number in front. To do this:
  • Select All Image (Ctrl-A)
  • Choose Tools | Batch Rename
  • The template will pop up.
    • Change Start at: to 1
    • Delete anything in the Template: box
    • Click on Insert Metadata, choose File Properties, select Filename w/o extension
    • Right before <File Properties:Filename(w/o extension)> insert ##. This will be your page numbers.
    • Here all the settings changed:
    • 
    • Click on Start Rename
  • All my pages are numbered in order.

Another option to manually rename them. This is for people who forgot if even or odd are right and left.

• So for the first page, rename (right click thumbnail and choose rename) the file to 01_filename.jpg.
• The next two, I am going to name 02L_filename.jpg & 02R_filename.jpg, followed by 03L_filename.jpg & 03R_filename.jpg.
• And luckily L comes before R in the alphabet so the 02L page will come before the 02R page.
• That way I know for sure which is going to be left & right hand side of pages.
• This method has to be done manually those with renaming each file.

Create Cover:

Viovio provides a cover template also. It’s interesting that it is formatted for a 12 x 12 book when they print their books at 10 x 10. Anyway, I opened the template which is 7200 x 3600 with 300 dpi.

Square format wrap cover:

I placed in 2 of the same papers to cover the entire space. Made sure everything stayed within the Casewrap Hardcover Fold Line. (In my example, I wanted part of the scroll to go off the cover.)

Due to the size of this file, I didn’t save it as working file (apd, psd, pspimage file) but just saved straight to a jpg with compression of 90%. Do not resize this image. It needs to be this size to work.

Trying to get text on the spine in this image is really tough so I didn’t try. There is an option in their interface to add text to the spine if your book is large enough and I recommend you doing it that way.

Okay, the book is almost ready to go! Next, we will get it uploaded! That’s easy just takes time (your computer’s time, not yours.)