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On the other hand, producing a large book, such as a coffee table book, may require a
good deal of planning, writing, design, page composition, proofing, and production
work. In addition, you’ll want to look ahead and decide how the manuscript should be
printed and bound, the number of copies for the print run, and what copyright and
permissions information your book should include.
For relatively simple books, here are some of the typical steps in the publishing process:
1
Gather your initial selection of images in the Light Table and arrange them to tell the
story you want.
2
Roughly plan the arrangement of images on each page.
3
If you’ll be adding text to your images, you may want to write, edit, and spell-check
your text using a word processor. You can then easily cut and paste the text into your
book later.
4
Choose a cover image and decide what text should appear on the cover.
5
Create any copyright or permissions notices you need.
6
Create a book album and choose a theme for your book.
7
Place the book’s images in the book album and order them as they should appear in
the book. Don’t place the images on your pages yet.
8
Specify any overall settings for the book, such as size, hardcover or softcover binding,
page numbering, and so on.
9
Create the number of pages you need and apply master page designs to them.
10
Have Aperture automatically place your images, or drag the images onto your pages.
11
Reposition and resize images, adjusting individual page layouts if necessary.
12
Add text to your pages and cover.
13
Print a proof and carefully review the text and layout of the book.
14
Send the book to be printed using Apple’s print vendor or create a PDF file that you
can print or send to a print vendor. If you create a PDF file, make sure to include all the
fonts you used in your book in the PDF file.
If you’re creating a larger, more complex book, you’ll want to contact a print vendor early
to make sure you consider printing issues such as the choice of paper stock, the use of
inks and varnishes, review of bluelines, binding, packaging, shipping, and pricing.
If you routinely produce printed albums, you can create a book album that you can
copy and reuse with each new project. After setting up master pages and individual
page layouts, you can copy the book album to another project and then substitute the
new images, increasing your publishing productivity greatly. You can then customize
certain pages, such as your cover, to provide any unique touches you like.