Brian Walters wrote: >G'day all > >I'm putting together a Blurb book of my recent travels in central >Australia. > >I have one image, a panorama, that I'd like to use across two facing >pages by splitting the image into two equal halves, but I'm a bit >concerned about 'losing' part of the image in the middle due to the book >binding. I estimate that the binding will hide almost a centimetre of >the middle of the image. > >The question. > >Would it be practical to leave a gap between the two halves of the image >so that the gap would fall in the binding area and minimise the amount >of the panorama that would be 'lost' to the binding? > >Has anyone tried this? The only problem that I can see is working out >how much of a gap to leave - I obviously don't want to make the gap too >wide and end up with a blank strip down the middle of the image. I'm >thinking of a conservative gap of about 3-4 mm on each half.
The technical term for what you're doing - printing a single image across two pages - is a "double truck". You can use that to impress chicks at the pub ;-) Anyway, what I do when I print an image double truck is to make each page cover about 55% of the image. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

