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Detail functions: Use one layout for the whole book

With these layout functions you can easily apply a selected layout to further pages. In this way, you can have a generic book in which every page has the same structure within minutes. To do this, design a double page and decide which pages the selec

Detail functions: Create and save your own layouts

Would you like to reuse designed single or double pages in the future?No problem! Simply save your layouts.

Detail functions: Create PDF preview

The exported preview PDF is identical to the print preview and shows the product in its final version. This PDF is not suitable for printing because the exported images are written to the PDF in a lower resolution than in a real order.

Detail functions: Collect photos from project

Many customers also use the Bookfactory design software to sort and select their images.With the function "Collect photos from project", you can export all images from the finished project into a folder. This way, you always have your best selection

Detail functions: Place images automatically

With the function "Place images automatically" you have the possibility to place your images automatically in the layout you have previously created. For example, create the layout for a double page, apply it to all double pages using the "project fu

Detail functions: Image folder settings

Once you have loaded an image folder, you can make some settings within it. At the top left you can select the size of the image display. Using the filter and sorting function, you can filter images according to their orientation (portrait and landsc

Detail functions: Set favourites for images

Once you have loaded an image folder, you can set your favourites directly in the image selection. To do this, click on the star at the top left (appears when you navigate the mouse over an image). The favourites can also be set in the full-screen vi

Detail functions: Image editing

To get even more out of your images, you have the following options for editing your images. Image correction: Activate a specific image and make changes in the three areas of brightness, contrast and saturation. If you activate the auto-correction,

Detail functions: Activate page numbering

With the function "Activate page numbers" you can add pagination to your project. Choose different options for the placement as well as your individual style. Define from which page you want to start pagination and on which pages you do not want to d

Detail functions: Move double pages within the photo project

In the double-page view you can easily move double pages. To do this, click with the mouse on the page numbering below the double pages (in this case page 8 - 9). Keep the mouse button pressed and drag the double page to the desired position. An oran

Detail functions: Pipette function

With the pipette function, colour tones can be taken from placed images. Use this function, for example, to define the background colour. Take a colour tone from the image on the opposite page and define this colour as the background tone. This is ho

Detail functions: Save text style

Choose from many different fonts, colours, styles, alignments and more. You can save your combination, which you can reuse in your current or even all new projects. Save the style by pressing the "+" in the top field.

Detail functions: Grid

With the Bookfactory design software you can create the grid in the project yourself. To do this, open the grid setting in manual mode. There you can set the rows, columns, margins and their spacing individually. You can also decide whether the grid

Detail functions: Guides

Use guides as a design aid.

Detail functions: Arranging objects in the foreground and background

New picture boxes are always placed in the foreground and can cover already placed pictures. With a right click on a specific image, you can place images in the foreground and in the background with the "Arrangement" setting.