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Sep 03, 2016 12:06PM
I'm trying to edit the proof of my book for Createspace and I feel like I'm pulling my own teeth without anesthesia. I purchased a software to edit the PDF, but it seems to make the formatting worse. I'm about to give up. I don't want to approve the proof with all those errors. Help, please!!!
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I make changes in the original word doc and save the PDF every time.
Hey, Miss Angela!Personally, I don't use any extra software. Just MS Word cuz I'm ghetto like that haha!! Anyhoo, I followed this...
https://chrismcmullen.wordpress.com/2...
Hope that helps! Best of luck!!
Hugs,
Ann
Pdf documents are designed like that for a good reason. If you use Microsoft Word 2010, or 2013, or 2016, they can open a Pdf documents in word.
Accept the conversion prompt. Then open it in word, edit it, and then after the editing, save it in word first as your backup copy. Then save it again as a pdf from word and upload the Pdf copy
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Sam, yours sounds like the best solution. Problem is, I have Word 2007, Annie, I'll check yours out too. My original Word doc has all the headers and footers all messed up otherwise I would have edited that version. Thanks, guys!
Thanks Angela. Word 2007 should be able to do it. Unfortunately, I have not got Word 2007 to try it out.Have a go. Word 2007 should do it. It is easy. Best of luck.
Angela, please before you try Word 2007, make a copy as a backup. You can just save the pdf file with a different name. If one goes bad, you have another copy to fall back to.
I don't use Word for layout, but Createspace has several Word templates you can download and use. They should make your work much easier.
Angela Joseph has published some books before. What I understand is that she has got a pdf proof copy of her book for CreateSpace. All she wants is not how to publish it with createspace BUT how to edit the pdf document she has got. It is obvious that if she has the word or editable version of the document, she will not be asking for help with editing the pdf. She will just edit the old word copy of the document and publish it.
It could be true that half of the advice on the help board are out of date, but I have just converted a pdf proof copy for another lady who got a pdf document of her book and wanted it converted from pdf to word so that she can edit it herself. This lady happen to be an old author as well.
If Angela has an editable version of the book, she will not be asking for help.
Sam wrote: "Angela Joseph has published some books before. What I understand is that she has got a pdf proof copy of her book for CreateSpace. All she wants is not how to publish it with createspace BUT how t..."
Whoops. Misunderstood.
I was confused about this when I first started working with Createspace. It finally dawned on me that the only way to make corrections was to go back to my original Word manuscript, make the changes and hit the submit new manuscript and start all over again. I work with Word 7 so I'm in your same place. Do you use styles? I strongly recommend this if you are going from Createspace to Kindle. If you do your manuscript using Styles, you'll be able to pretty much transfer to Kindle, glitch free. But the same thing applies here. If you want to make changes, the easiest thing to do is make your changes in your Word manuscript and resubmit it to Kindle. You have to read it in pdf, or whatever format Kindle gives you. But you correct in your Word manuscript.
Angela wrote: "Sam, yours sounds like the best solution. Problem is, I have Word 2007, Annie, I'll check yours out too. My original Word doc has all the headers and footers all messed up otherwise I would have ed..."Sam wrote: "Thanks Angela. Word 2007 should be able to do it. Unfortunately, I have not got Word 2007 to try it out.
Have a go. Word 2007 should do it. It is easy. Best of luck."
Angela wrote: "Sam, yours sounds like the best solution. Problem is, I have Word 2007, Annie, I'll check yours out too. My original Word doc has all the headers and footers all messed up otherwise I would have ed..."
Martin wrote: "I make changes in the original word doc and save the PDF every time."
My Word program is now ODT. Are any of you familiar with it? Will I be able to upload to CS?
ODT is an Open Document Format. It is similar to word. CreateSpace will accept it but Since you have Word, open it in Word and save it as a word document. The extension odt will change to either doc or docx depending on the version of Word you use.
Thank you Sam. I was hoping that would work.
What I did was to load the template into LibreOffice, which is free and deals far more intelligently with PDF, paste in the content, tweak as necessary and hit the PDF button.It worked first time.
whatever you do, or decide to do, do not publish if you have formatting errors (or any other type of errors such as grammatical) showing. It's one sure way to lose readers you've not even gained -yet- and make publishing look second-rate.
