Tips for Creating a 199-Page Photo Book in Artisan 6

TIPS FOR CREATING A 199-PAGE PHOTO BOOK IN A6

Note:  The tips below are numbered ONLY to make them easier to reference, not because they are ranked in any way.

1. Only Standard Hard Cover or upgraded Standard Layflat Photo Books can accommodate up to 199 pages at this time. (12 x 12, 10 x 10, 11 x 8.5, 8.5 x 11, and 8 x 8 - unfortunately, Deluxe Seamless Layflat is still at a 98-page or 49-spread limit)
2. Books created before the update are still limited to 99 pages. If you started a book before the update and know you will want more than 99 pages in it, you should create a new project and import the pages from your current project to the new one.  Our pixels2Pages team has a video showing how to do this.  Click here for a link to the video:  https://www.forever.com/pixels2pages/posts/video-tidbit-importing-pages-from-one-project-to-another
   1. Remember: When you import pages from one project to another, the pages will NOT import in the order that you created them.  This is due to the way pages are named in Artisan.
   2. Once you import your pages, you can go to the Pages Panel on the right and rearrange your pages to put them in the order you want.
   3. If you prefer, you can follow these steps so you don’t have to move the pages around after importing:
      1. Create a folder to save your pages to. (This folder should NOT be inside the original project folder.)
      2. While on the first page in your original project, go to File > Save as > Export current page. Enter a File Name that is the start of a consecutive naming convention, i.e. 001_ProjectName.  Keep the File Type as .a6page_export, and click Save in the folder you created.  (Note:  It is important that you use a three-digit number to maintain the proper page order, i.e. 001, 002, 003, etc.)
      3. Go to the next page in your project, go to File > Save as > Export current page. Enter the next name in your consecutive naming convention (i.e. 002_ProjectName, 003_ProjectName, 004_ProjectName, etc.) in the File Name field.  Keep the File Type as .a6page_export and click Save in the folder you created.
         1. Repeat this step until all of the remaining pages in your project are saved.
         2. If you have a cover designed for the project, do NOT save it to this folder. It will need to be imported separately once you are finished adding pages to your new project.
      4. Create your new project.
      5. In the Home ribbon, click Add page > Using a page file from My Computer.
      6. Navigate to the folder you created and type Ctrl-A to select all of the pages. Click Open.
      7. Optional: Once all of your pages finish importing, go to the top of the Pages Panel and right-click on a blank page and select Remove this page.
         1. Repeat for all blank pages.
   4. When you are finished creating your project pages, if you have a cover from your original project to add, follow these steps:
      1. In the Pages Panel, click on the Cover.
      2. Read the informational message about the cover and click OK.
      3. In the Home ribbon, click Template > Using a page file from My Computer.
      4. Navigate to your original PROJECT folder.
      5. Find the cover page; click on it to select it and then click Open.
      6. If you have more than 99 pages in your new project, you will need to reposition some of the elements on the cover. Pay extra attention to anything on the Spine and Front Cover.  (Go to View > Parts to see the Back Cover, Spine, and Front Cover separately.)
3. Photo Book projects with more than 99 pages WILL NOT give you the option to print the interior pages as Page Prints when you upload the project to FOREVER for printing.
4. While the spine of a 199-page book and the spine of an SLF book will both increase in width as pages are added, they do not increase at the same rate because the binding for each is different.
5. You should always design the cover of your 199-page books AFTER you know how many interior pages the book will have. Otherwise, you will need to adjust and re-adjust ever time the spine width changes (remember – as you delete pages, the spine width changes, too).  Additional points about the cover:
   1. We STRONGLY recommend that you design the cover of your book LAST.
   2. When you are adding pages, the cover size changes at 37, 77, 119, and 161 total project pages.
   3. When you are deleting pages, the cover size changes at 160, 118, 76, and 36 total pages.
   4. When the spine width changes, the back cover of the book does NOT change, however the front cover of the book “shifts” to accommodate the wider spine. Any elements on the front cover of your book will need re-positioned (moved to the right).
   5. If you choose an art kit with a predesigned cover when you create a new 10 x 10 or 8 x 8 photo book project, the Safe, Trim, and Bleed lines will not adjust correctly as you add pages and the spine and cover width changes. (NOTE:  This is not an issue for 12 x 12 Photo Books.)
      To work around the issue:
      1. Choose a Blank template for your photo book project and import the Cover and pages using the Template tool in the Home ribbon.
      2. Choose the predesigned kit (faster if there are a LOT of predesigned pages in the kit) during project creation but immediately go to the Cover and delete the content before working on any pages. Once you know that you will NOT add any more pages to the book, go to the Cover and import the Cover Template from the kit.
   6. As you add pages to your project, the size of your file increases as well. This will impact the amount of time necessary to upload your completed project to FOREVER for printing. 
      1. Depending on your upload speed, you may need to connect your computer directly to your internet router (rather than using WiFi), or you may need to go someplace that has public WiFi with faster speeds such as a library or coffee shop.
      2. In general, our testing has shown that upload speeds above 15MB / second should be fast enough to upload your project.
      3. We have added information to the Print Transfer window during a project upload. You will see the amount of the file that is uploaded (typically in MBs) and the total file size (also typically in MBs).  You will also see the percentage of the project that has uploaded as it progresses. 
      4. You should expect it to take noticeably longer to upload 199 pages than it does to upload 99 pages.