POD printers tend to print landscape pages sideways, so even if you are creating a wide format book (9 x 7), the uploaded source document page orientation must be set to Portrait, with page dimensions defined with the wider width than height.
Which lead me to believe that as long as I left it at Portrait, I could do a 9x6 book. So that is how I designed my whole book. When I got to the upload file part, it said I couldn't do 9x6. A called, posted a note and sent an email. Got a response saying that they don't do 9x6 and that I'd have to reformat my book. So I spent 2 hours doing that.
Oh, I should also mention that after you do anything on lulu, it freezes and you have to go out and go back in. I thought it was my computer, but I rebooted, cleared my cache and then googled and it's a common issue.
So now my file is uploaded and I'm trying to create a cover with their "wizard". They have a new Wizard and an old Wizard. The new wizard is okay, but I'm not thrilled with the templates available. And while they have links to the old wizard, I'm now on my second reboot of Lulu to try to get to it. Hoping that it has better options. Well, truthfully, I'm hoping I can even get there to figure out Old Wizard's options.
I really didn't think this would be the hard part. I'm not computer-stupid and I don't have issues following directions. I'm also not super picky about this book. So I really didn't expect to get this frustrated.
I'd try Blurb for this, but you have to download a program and my project is already done in Word and PDF. But I'm soooooo frustrated!
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