Sarah Elisabeth

The square thing was with Primo. When I saved it using the plugin, it worked fine :-) And duh, my printer will never print all the way to the edges I think I'm all good now...for this phase anyway. Thanks again for the help!

You just saved my sanity for the night! :-) The plugin worked better than PrimoPDF. After a few minutes, i was able to figure out the install and operation. Yay! Now I hope my file size and all that stuff is right, but one hurdle overcome, thanks!

Cool, I didn't know that! So here's another dumb question...how do I install the plugin to Paint.net? I'm only familiar with plugins as far as Wordpress needs :-)

Thanks, yes the width and height are different. Since this is for a print book, not ebook, the image is for the front cover, spine, back cover, all in one. I tried rotating, same result. I can't do anything about the square dimensions for the Quality. It only allows me to select other square numbers like 3600X3600, 2400X2400, etc. My book will actually be 5.25X8, the template allows about a quarter inch all around for bleed, but this just doesn't look right, especially when I printed it out and there was white space on all four sides and it didn't reach the desired 5.25X8 dimension.

I hope this hasn't been posted before, I searched the forums and help and couldn't find my specific problem. First off, I'm an amatuer geek trying to do geeking things, like create my own cover design using Paint.net to upload for CreateSpace POD, so please bear with me. I downloaded my correct size template from CreateSpace, opened it with Paint.net, trimmed the excess white (I was told it was okay to do this) and started a bit of the design. Before getting too far in, I decided to take a look at the dimensions on the finished PDF. I downloaded PrimoPDF and clicked print. With the "fit picture to frame" box checked, the right and left edges are cut off. When I uncheck the box, I get white space at the top and bottom. I'm afraid with the white space at the time and bottom, that will translate to the print book cover. Any ideas? Anyone ever formatted a cover for CreateSpace using Paint.net and Primo? Thanks in advance for any and all help!