Designing my own book

[mtbracing]

I have a very special project in mind. I'm a graphic designer and I'd like to design my own book from scratch, not use a template. I want this book to be an original and the only one out there. This is for my parents' 40th Wedding Anniversary.

Is it possible to design my own book in InDesign and send the project to My Publisher and have you all print it for me? I'm guessing no, but I thought I'd ask.

If not, do you know of company who would do that?

Thank you,
Nina

[mypublisher]

Hi Nina -

You can design the entire thing in InDesign and save each page as a JPG. Then just import each page into a full bleed mold. We can print it that way! Lots of designers do it.

Sincerely,
MyPublisher

[ladykk]

what is this InDesign feature, and where do I find it? I never saw this option when I was maknig my last book.

[jkarar]

InDesign is not a feature in mypublisher. It is a completely separate program created by Adobe. Adobe has Acrobat, Photoshop & Illustrator as well. InDesign is strictly a layout program that you have to buy (which is very expensive-all Adobe programs are). But it is a great program to lay out pages, such as mypublisher pages. Once you create a page in InDesign with all your photos and such layed out how you want it, you save it as a JPEG and insert it into mypublisher as a full bleed page as if it were a photo. This is just a program to use if you don't want to use the templates in mypublisher. I hear people also use Powerpoint and Publisher, though I haven't tried either.
The only thing I'm not certain about is how good text would look doing it this way. It might be fuzzy because text converted to JPEGs usually are fuzzy.
Hope this helps!
JKR

[kmk_01kmk]

Originally Posted by mtbracing

Is it possible to design my own book in InDesign and send the project to My Publisher and have you all print it for me? I'm guessing no, but I thought I'd ask.
If not, do you know of company who would do that?

There are companies out there that will take a multi-page PDF and print the pages into a book, but I haven't done business with any of them. Being an Adobe format, that may be closer to what you want.