This type of book is a bit different than artbooks/albums because it doesn't open flat and starts with a right hand side page rather than a full spread. You should consider this book to be perfect for one image per side designs and lots of pages.
To design an Heirloom, you can use various tools like Fundy Designer, Pixellu SmartAlbums, InDesign, or Lightroom as long you follow these rules.
- The Heirloom book is not lay-flat therefore you need to design pages instead of spreads (you might see spreads in SmartAlbums or other software).
- Your margins should be set 20 mm from each edge of the design page.
- The design with the picture set over the middle is not advised.
- To print your beautiful design we need single pages delivered in one PDF.
- Our color space profile is AdobeRGB or sRGB
File Requirements for Pages:
| Heirloom Book size | Page width (cm) | Page height (cm) | Safe zone (cm) | Trim A (cm) | Trim B (cm) | Page size after trim (cm) |
| all around, inside | top and bottom | left and right of spread | ||||
| 20x20 cm \ | 8x8" | 20.4 | 20.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 20x30 cm \ | 8x12"vertical | 20.4 | 28.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 20x30 cm \ | 8x12" horizontal | 28.4 | 20.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 25x25 cm \ | 10x10" | 25.4 | 25.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 30x30 cm \ | 12x12" | 28.4 | 28.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 30x45 cm \ | 12x18" vertical | 28.4 | 45.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 30x45 cm \ | 12x18" horizontal | 45.4 | 28.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Pixellu SmartAlbums:
SmartAlbums is great for Heirloom designs without any tweaks. Please follow the instructions for 8x12" (20x30cm) Vertical Heirloom book below.
If you want to design the Heirloom using the SmartAlbums you need to keep in mind that you can't scale the end file to smaller or bigger sizes.
For export, please select PDF as output format and export as SINGLE pages
Highly Recommended is to design one picture per page, why such a simple design? You will get the best presentation of the pictures, they will just look marvelous in this kind of design!