Position Guides
Position guides should be created at the end of the book when final files have gone to the printer.
You will be using two Fuse tools to create a position guide at the smallest possible file size.
- Copy the CMYK and Text PDFs to your computer
- Run ‘Combo’ from the Fuse Menu – This will create a single InDesign document with the Text and CMYK PDFs placed on their respective pages – or multiple InDesign documents is your book is over 100 pages
- Combo will ask for a name for the InDesign file being produced (No spaces allowed)
- Choose a location for the InDesign file to be saved
- Set the location of the CMYK PDFs
- And the TEXT PDFS
You will now have an ‘output’ folder containing an InDesign document (or documents) with the PDFs linked.
Run ‘Combo Harvester’ to convert all of the CMYK PDF links to embedded images.
- Run ‘Combo Harvester’ from the Fuse menu
- Choose the JPEG Quality you require – 1200 pixels and Maximum resolution is recommended
- Set the location of the InDesign Document we created using Combo
- Set the location to output the new InDesign document
You will now have an InDesign document(s) called .._Ebook.indd. This is the file(s) we will output the position guide PDFs from.
- Run Exporter from the Fuse menu
- Choose PDF output format
- Choose the input folder containing the _Ebook .indd files
- Select the PRH_PDF_Position_Guide preset
- Set all visible layers
- DO NOT export each page separately
- Add copyright Watermark
- Make sure the final PDF is correctly named for Sales Operations (eg: ISBN_001-292)
- Any corrections to the position guide should be supplied as a marked up PDF and the new spread labelled like this: (008-009_BookCode_Correct_PDF)
If you have multiple PDFs for a larger extent book, you will need to combine them.
1.Open Acrobat
2.Select File -> Create -> Combine Files into a Single PDF
3. Add Files – Use your newly created PDFs
4.Click combine in the top right corner
5. Save your combined PDF