Self-Publishing: Exporting a Manuscript for IngramSpark

How to properly export a pdf for IngramSpark using Affinity Designer

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