Exporting your file properly for IngramSpark is extremely important to avoid issues down the road. Don’t forget, it costs money to re-upload your files, so you really want to get it right the first time. To do this I used Affinity Designer which is Affinity’s version of Adobe Illustrator.
- Download and install Affinity Designer if you don’t already have it.
- Open your document in Affinity Designer. I created my manuscript in Pages on my Mac so I had to first export it as a PDF and I then open it in Affinity Designer with the following screen. (I’m not sure where the missing font I had came from, but I used Garamond as my general font so I chose to replace it with that font.)
- Choose the File menu ad then Export
- On this screen select the PDF tab
- Update to use the following settings
- Click the “More” button
- Update to use the following settings (if you have a lot of images in your document you may want to deselect “Allow JPEG compression”, but as I had limited graphics in my book I chose to keep this selected)
When using these settings I did not have any errors when uploading my pdf to IngramSpark