All about your Authorzone
Sign-up for one of our publishing or print packages and you will be given access to your Authorzone. Here you can review the details of all your titles in …
Category: Wordzworth
All about print-only
Wordzworth is a team of expert book designers. For years we have created fabulous print-ready files for books and covers. Increasingly our customers asked for help with printing so …
All about ebook publishing
Wordzworth is a team of expert book designers. We produce fabulous print-ready files for books and convert these to create high-quality ebooks. When our customers increasingly asked for help …
All about smart-publishing
Wordzworth is a team of expert book designers. For years we have created fabulous print-ready files for books and covers. Increasingly our customers asked for help with printing and …
How to pay with card via PayPal
You do not need to have a PayPal account to make payments with the PayPal payments system. You can make secure payment quickly and easily with any debit or credit card. Simply …
Checking image quality
You may often want to check the quality of a particular image to determine if it is sufficient for printing. So below we have put together a few pointers on …
Using pdf comments
Adding pdf comments is a brilliant and easy way for designers to communicate with you about your file. Unlike a long email with comments like ‘on page 23, top left, at the …
Thin white lines on pdf
When reviewing your PDF file you may notice very feint white lines on your cover or book interior pages. These “hairlines” are the result of the transparency flatteners used to …
How do I send my material?
Email: If you’re just sending a few files that total less than 10MB then emailing these as attachments is fine. Some email clients will allow you to embed images into …
What files do I send?
Text files: Provide your text in editable format, ideally as an MS Word file. If you have used an alternative word processing package to write your text such as OpenOffice …
What instructions do I send?
Files: For each file we need to know what it is, why you’ve sent it and where it goes. Using clear filenames is always a really good start. For example, Manuscript.docx for …
Do you take confidentiality seriously?
We take confidentiality very seriously. Information and files will only be shared with our staff and associates, all of whom have individually signed a confidentiality agreement. We are happy …
Can I have a sample?
Most jobs will include a sample stage for approval and feedback on the styling before we proceed. For book interiors we will typically typeset the first chapter and for covers …
What about changes
Receiving your feedback, changes and updates for a job is all part of the design process. Sample For most jobs we will first sent you a sample file called …
What’s in my quotation?
Once our team receives your files we will schedule them for review. If we have everything we need we will issue an itemized quotation including the job specification, price …
What if my deadline is urgent?
When we quote a time, we deliver to it. The only exception is due to an issue beyond our control. However, it is always advisable to leave extra time …
How does payment work?
For our design services we follow standard practice. We split payment 50:50 with the initial 50% payable before we start work and the final 50% on completion. All our …
Can you send my files to someone else?
Each job we work on has one customer. This is the person who accepted our quote. Clarity: A single point of contact avoids the risk of us receiving conflicting instructions …
What if I am not happy?
We do everything we can to try and ensure this does not happen. Design work is subjective so just tell us if there are things you want changed, this …