PDF Version of Profile Book??

FutureMrsS08

For anyone using an agency and profile book, how did you get an electronic version (PDF) of the profile book? Our agency requires one, and I'm not seeing this as an option on web sites such as mixbook.com or snapfish. Help please!! Thanks!

lafayettegirl

I actually made our book using Microsoft Publisher and then converted it to a PDF format.

EclairAngst

I'm not sure if Mixbook, etc., allow for creating a PDF version.  If not, I'd order an extra copy, disassemble it with an exacto knife, take it to a good print shop (not Walgreens) and have them scan each page into a PDF document.  You  might be able to get away with scanning it at a Walgreens if you don't need a very high resolution version of it.  

twinkjk

I did a mixbook, and took it to a kinkos and they made a PDF file for me.  It did require, taking apart the book. 

FutureMrsS08

Really? Taking the book apart seems a bit extreme to me, especially since they're not cheap! Did anyone do their book a different way or perhaps use another web site? Thanks to everyone who has replied though!!

WaitingforGrace

If you have it electronically where you can print it, there are several free programs that will "print to pdf". Or, once you have it as a file you can upload it into lots of programs (photoshop, etc) where you can save it as a .pdf. If you are using the website's "book maker" they probably restrict this so you just don't print out the pages once you've used their software to make them.

 

EclairAngst

WaitingforGrace:

If you have it electronically where you can print it, there are several free programs that will "print to pdf". Or, once you have it as a file you can upload it into lots of programs (photoshop, etc) where you can save it as a .pdf. If you are using the website's "book maker" they probably restrict this so you just don't print out the pages once you've used their software to make them.

 

 ^^^ this is why I'm thinking you might have to take one apart to scan it.  You probably could scan it without taking it apart, but it would be difficult to get clean scan since those books don't lay completely flat.  Worth an extra $15 book, IMO to get a good finish on the PDF.   

 We used a designer who sent us the PDF files to print from.   

inlovewithB

We used "Our Chosen Child Adoption Profiles" and she provided us with a PDF and Printed books.