The pastor in our church was moving away for health reasons and I was tasked with taking pictures of his going away party and creating an album for people to sign and deliver to him during his recovery after back surgery in about 3 weeks. I finished the book layout last night...very late....and I did it in InDesign as a 10x10 (10x20 spreads). Originally I was going to try the new WHCC press printed books, but as I found out last night I have to upload each 10x10 page in JPEG format. As far as I know I can't get my current layout with 10x20 spreads cut up in 10x10s, but if anyone knows how to do that (Kevin, you out there??), that will be the easiest.

Otherwise, the help I am asking for is what book printing company can receive a PDF of the layout and print an Azuka type coffee table style book? I have looked a Blurb and Lulu but my problem with them is that they don't do a 10x10 size book. I need to get this book sent out for printing no later than tomorrow. Please help.

If you use Photoshop to convert the PDF pages to JPG then you can use the WHCC book. You don't even need to cut the pages in half since you can do that in ROES when you order the book. Just pick the spread to print for page 1, drag it to the right so the left half is showing, hit add, and drag it the other way for page 2, hit add. Repeat till all your pages are included. Make sure the Fit/Fill toggle is set to Fill, but I think that's the default.

Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

On a related note I've never ordered an Asuka but I've been thinking about it just to see how it turns out, can you use an InDesign PDF to order through them?

I apologize that this is off the primary subject, but there is something I don't understand about the InDesign PDF/Jpeg thing.

I always see InDesign users stating that you have to save as PDF then open in Photoshop to convert to Jpeg. I recently asked a friend about this (he is a Designer with years of InDesign experience). He said that you can save as Jpeg right from InDesign, and then he showed me.

So why do so many of you say you have to do this in Photoshop?

I'm perplexed.

Hey Bruce,

Indesign CS2 will let you save a low res jpg, I think on my 20x10 pages it's about 1400 pixels wide. Not good enough for printing, but great for creating a Showit show for the client to review.

Swan said they may fix that in CS3 (out now) and allow high res JPGs to output, but I don't know if it happened or not.

That made total sense and I think that is what I am going to do. I didn't think of that...that is an easy solution for me. And actually I don't have to bring the PDF into PShop, InDesign will export 300 dpi JPEGs, so all I have to do is export the layout as JPEGs. I only did a PDF to send it to the lady that needs to approve it.




Bruce, you are right, InDesign CS3 export high quality JPEGs. InDesign CS2 doesn't, only low res JPEGs, so that may have been a reason whey people needed to create the PDF then bring it into PShop and export high res JPEGs.