 | 12 May 2012 06:26 |
| MikeDanby Photographer Location United Kingdom East Yorkshire Newport | Hi I'm after some advise on creating an ebook from PDF's, now I know that you can view a PDF file like a book by setting it up with, View - Page Display - Two-Up (selected) & Show Cover Page During Two-Up Display (selected), but I would like a way to set this up / display this way automatically without the viewer having to faf around in all the settings or having to follow instructions to do so, so first off is there a way of doing this? Also is there a way of splicing two PDF files together? Where have these questions come from - well I've just upgraded to Lightroom 4, and I've been playing with the Book module, and I really like it  , the way books are displayed on the screen etc. hence I'd like to re-create that look with the PDF, but also when you output your book as a PDF it separates the cover from the rest of the book as two separate PDF files, hence I'd like to join them up. So any advice on this, I have had a bit of a search on this site for this.Thanks in advance. Mike. |
| 12 May 2012 12:35 |
| carlbeebee Photographer  Location United Kingdom Herefordshire | You can do all this relatively simply in Adobe Acrobat Pro - Pretty sure that you can download a demo of it too. EDIT: Just checked - very simple to merge documents, and once you've played around with the layout etc you can "lock" it so it automatically opens in that layout for others viewing it in Adobe Reader - or anything similar. |
| 12 May 2012 16:01 |
| HowardJ Photographer  Location United Kingdom Surrey | You can probably just create the book in MS word and save it as a PDF. see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/save-as-pdf-HA010064992.aspx for details |
| 18 May 2012 16:07 |
| MikeDanby Photographer Location United Kingdom East Yorkshire Newport | Thanks for the advice, unfortunately I was after something a bit more permanent than a demo version of acrobat, but a lot cheaper than having to buy the full version. As for the option of using Word to create a book, it somewhat negates all of the advantages, ease of use, and time saving, of doing it with Lightroom. Thanks anyway, I'll carry on looking / experimenting with formats. Mike. |
| 18 May 2012 17:03 |
| jimbo_kent Photographer  Location United Kingdom Kent Gillingham | Why not look for a pdf printer like DoPDF, cute PDF, WinPDF etc? This sets up a virtual printer on your computer that you print to like a real printer from any program. use a well known search engine to look for "free pdf printer" HTH Jim |
| 19 May 2012 05:10 |
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| CSD_Images Photographer  Location United Kingdom Grampian Aberdeen | To create professional PDF e-books ideally you'll want to invest in InDesign DTP package and also Acrobat, at this point it's probably better to buy one of the Creative Suites as you'll need Photoshop as well and/or Illustrator. I do a lot of publications through the above combination of software. Lightroom whilst easy won't allow for baselines, grids, kerning or anything else required for a professional result. It's tailored to creating coffee table books with minimal amounts of copy text. |
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| 20 May 2012 04:04 |
| MikeDanby Photographer Location United Kingdom East Yorkshire Newport |  Quote from jimbo_kentWhy not look for a pdf printer like DoPDF, cute PDF, WinPDF etc? This sets up a virtual printer on your computer that you print to like a real printer from any program. use a well known search engine to look for "free pdf printer" HTH Jim Yeh, hadn't thought of that, I'll have a play with that. Mike. |
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