Creating a Viovio Book with Viovio’s BookMaker Tool

Okay, this is the last post. Like I said this is the easy part now because of all the prep work we did.

Create a book:

From my gallery, click on Order Photo Book in the top right.

Set your Book size, Make sure Full Bleed is checked, I checked No Captions, uncheck Auto Crop. and click Next

It its your first time, it will start generating the book and it takes a few minutes. If you have made changes and you want to update your book, scroll to the bottom and click RECREATE BOOK and it will start the book making process again.

Once done, click on preview your book and view your book in pdf format. In Adobe Reader, Viovio say continuous facing setting. I couldn’t find that option in Adobe Reader 8. The setting that worked for me in Adobe Reader was: View | Page Display | Two-up Continuous. Then I saw two pages, left and right next to each other just the way they will be printed.

PROOF your book. If you see any pages/misprints/mistakes. Now is the time to go correct that. I deleted any image that was wrong, made changes to it, uploaded the image again, and from the gallery click Order Photo Book again and Recreate Book.

Once you are satisfied, continue on by clicking on CREATE COVER NEXT

Setting Cover Options:

There are 3 tabs and I will tell you what I did on all 3.

Cover Text:

I deleted the Title Text & Author Text since I have that incorporated into my cover.

I didn’t put anything on my spine because I got this warning:

At least 35 pages are needed for your spine text to appear.

Their help states you need 40 pages “Note: Your book needs to be 40 pages or more in order for text to print on the spine.”

Which basically means my spine is going to be too skinny to print spine text since I only have 28 pages. But if your book is large enough, this is where you put the spine text info.

Colors & Images:

I made no changes

Advanced tab:

• I deleted the product URL
• Make sure you check “Full Wrap Cover” if you are using their template.

You should see the cover generated and verify it looks good.

Once the cover is to your satisfaction, choose Next.

Webstore Options:

I gave my product a name with the my photo books title.

Security level: Private (so no one else can see my book)

At this point you can buy or your photo book will be available in My Shop when you are ready to purchase it.

Purchasing:

When you purchase you will have some options for the cover:

• Embossed Hardcover gives you hardcover with your image in it.