Here are our internal quality standards controls:
This document contains information on creating industry standard print pdf files. For those who wish to bypass our file creation process, and have experience with creating industry quality printable materials, you may create your pdf print files directly and upload them via our Book Designer section of babalonBooks.com.
Provide an appropriately sized source document.
Your source document page size much match the project's format size. For example, if you upload an 8.5 x 11 document then select 6 x 9 as the book size, BabalonBOOKs scales your document to approximately 75% of the original size. The printed book will have unexpectedly small fonts and images.
The Word document we’ve included has been designed to fit the specifics of your project. You may change the dimensions of your book, by starting a new project and downloading the appropriate template files.
Set document pages to Portrait orientation, not Landscape.
Regardless of your book size or format, the uploaded source document page orientation must be set to Portrait.
Use standard or common fonts.
If your uploaded source document contains unusual fonts, your book won't look like you expected. Use fonts that are readily available (almost anything provided by default in Microsoft® Windows® works). If you have unique or hard-to-find fonts in your document, provide a print-ready PDF of your work instead, making sure it meets our requirements — in particular, that the PDF includes the embedded fonts. For more information about PDFs and fonts, see "How do I embed fonts in a PDF?"
Embed your graphics.
Always embed any images or other graphics that you use rather than linking (or referring) to them. When you save the document, an embedded graphic is part of the document file. When you save a document with a linked graphic, the document file only contains a pointer to the graphic file, and the document file and graphic file remain separate. When you upload the document to WartoyerBOOKs, linked graphics do not upload.
**You can quickly and easily convert linked images to embedded images in Word 2007.
Here’s how:
- With your Word document open, click the Office button*, top-left of the window.
- Select Prepare > Edit Links to Files.
- Select and highlight the images you want to convert from the list.
- Select the option to Save picture in document.
- Click the Break Link button.
- Click Yes to confirm.
- To embed a single image, right click the image and from the drop-down menu, select “link” and then “embed in this document”.