Cover Page, still with the old "Volume" marker
After some sleepless nights about the formatting and fitting all the interviews into the maximum of 250 pages (full color, full bleed) I finally hold a proof in my hand that looks pretty good – I think I’m going to go with it :)
I changed the line spacing back to 11pt and all fonts to 10pt – which of course means I had to change the locations of all pictures as well. Easy done in WinWord, of course, which is great for book layouts. (I hope you get my irony here…). Also a nice touch of WinWord: If you enter custom page sizes you would think that if you select “Page Size: Custom” and enter “7.125 x 10.250″ it would actually be that custom size. But Noooooooo, not so fast. WinWord is very helpful: Hey buddy, your format is really close to something called “B5 (JIS)” – a Japanese B5 version – so without even telling you I’ll correct that for you to the right format. ARGH. So finally I figured out how to prevent that (define a new page size in your PDF printer). Of course you have to re-do all margins again. And that means that you have to do all image locations again…
Example inside page with full bleed image
Anyhow. Proof is done. The pictures look great in print, really better than I expected. I’ll put the website live over the weekend so you can download the book (for free, of course!). The book should be available in Amazon by the end of next week, in case anyone wants to read it “offline” (and not print 250 pages yourself).
