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I have been asked to put together a photo book of an exhibition. I have most of it already in several pdf files created by someone else. It will be quite big at about 124 pages - 50Mb file size.
I have two questions that I would like help with please.
1. Can anyone recommend a low cost or free pdf editing package?
2. Has anyone any experience of Blurb, Vistaprint or Tesco's for producing books?
Thanks folks.

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:
I've used Blurb, Superb quality and would definitely use it again...certainly superior to vistaprint's quality (I've not had a book from VP, but have had various other things...)

Blurb also have multiple free bits of book editing software for you to use.

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:
I use Blurb direct from LR - great way of doing it. I have also used the Blurb software and Adobe InDesign - LR is way the best way of producing a Blurb book. Blurb quality is excellent.

We also did a 2015 calendar from Vistaprint and the printing was also (surprisingly) excellent,


Edit - sorry, have just noticed that you said it is in pdf format already. The pdf has to be set up in specific formats for Blurb - do you know it if the pdf complies with their required set up and page size/layout requirements?

Some help here?

http://www.blurb.co.uk/pdf-to-book
http://www.blurb.co.uk/guides/color_management/image_prep_pdf

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:

I've never had a photo book printed out, but I must say I'd have expected 124 pages to create a file larger than 50Mb if it's at a decent resolution. Am I wrong? (I assume the book's mostly photos, with the occasional bit of text perhaps.)

In reply to Fraser:
Just checked - my last Blurb book via a LR pdf was 250 MB.

That was 170 pages.

In reply to Fraser:

The file is 56Mb. It is a mixture of pictures and text. They are photos of WW1 soldiers from our village so quite low resolution.
Any help on a Low Cost ediing package?

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:
What do you mean by pdf editing package? What do you want it to do?

We use Nitro Pro to produce & edit pdf - all the functions of Adobe acrobat at a fraction of the price (£113 inc VAT verus £438). Or you could subscribe to Acrobat month by month for £27/month

https://store.gonitro.com/304/purl-pro-v9?x-source=home&cart=131077&quantit...
https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/pricing.html

Or you could try a free Acrobat XI pro trial - need to check if it is fully functioning:
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat.html


Note - Editing existing pdfs is tricky and not like Word, PS etc.

In reply to ChrisJD:
Thanks for your advice. I have inherited a book in pdf format that was then turned into a website and we have used up our developer time. It has a few spellings, grammar , continuity issues that need putting right plus probably re-sizing to suit a self printing format. It is 11x8.5 in at present. I suspect that re-sizing will require tweaking of some pages but the majority look OK.

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:
Ok this is now sorted. I downloaded PDF Editor for a small fee and managed to do a resize of the document and apply some text corrections. Seems like a good package that I will use many more times. A local company came in with a good quote for a simple print of the catalogue at a price we can afford so we have a result. Thanks for your advice.

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:

Great stuff.

Have you got a link to the pdf package - always on the lookout for new programs.

Cheers

In reply to ChrisJD:

look up pdfpro10.com