![]() ![]() Regarding illustrations, take care to produce them at 300dpi. If you really want to keep the images in the text you can insert a 'text box' and insert the image inside that you can change the boundaries of the text box and remove them if desired, as well as specify how the text should wrap around the box. I used text placeholders and kept the illustrations separately numbered to keep things neat - Word does strange things as you know with images and word-wrap. One is going from Word to layout can be problematic, especially if you work with (as recommended everywhere) an editor who will track changes (a needed function). Thanks in advance and if there is a better forum for this particular problem would appreciate a re-direct.Īs one who is putting the finishing touches on a non-fiction book (42K words, 15 illustrations) I've done a few things to ensure the illustrations I've created / drawn get to print without too much fuss. ![]() If anyone has ideas for a better way to do this (I’m clearly figuring out as I go) I would love to hear since I really want a better version to be able to replicate and send out to my initial audience. For example I would like some drawings to reach the edges of the paper and even be layered under the text (picture a mountain range with a blue sky where the text may be written over part of the sky, rather than the illustration making a hard stop where the text ends). I find that in Word the pictures a) look much worse because they are scanned or photographed unprofessionally and b) conform to the margins of the text so are boxy and smaller. ![]() Now I am trying to get the pictures into digital format so that I can distribute to friends who have offered to be initial readers. Obviously pretty manual and time-consuming. I am writing in Word and have been physically glueing the printed paragraphs into a hardcover sketchbook and then drawing the initial sketches into the book in the spaces I have allowed to get a sense for how it should all look and feel, as well as finding the proper balance. I have been writing my first book which is a bit heavy on the illustration. ![]()
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