New to this too, but I may be able to help some on number two.  The one book I did, I had several pics that I reduced smaller than the template box, and there was no clue on the final product.  You might also notice that any border will shrink with the picture, and does not stay at the size of the container.  I’m not sure I understand #3.  Sounds like the answer is yes, but I’m not sure if I’m missing something?

1. After doing a test book with different fonts and sizes I have plumped to use 11pt for the main body of text. I tried 9pt but found that a bit of a strain for large amounts of text, though I often use it for captions, 13pt was just too big for me. It does depend on how good your vision is though, mine’s not great these days.

2. To add to Larry Jordan’s response if you look at the bottom right of the BookSmart window you’ll see a Preview Book button, that’ll show you the pages as they will be printed.

3. If you mean the background that can be set to be the same for all pages or you can set each page individually, so the answer is yes. If you mean text you can choose the colour for individual text containers, not just all the text on a page; or you can set it globally using styles. You can define a style for headers, captions, etc. There is a FAQ on this.

…..Tony

P.S…..the global "style setting" does not work. I set it at the beginning of my book creating process and it ALWAYS changes on me. I wated to use Times New Roman throughout the book…yet it keeps switching to Arial text font. Some kind of irritating glitch.

Mark

SS123,

this was probably worth a new post as it is not related to the questions asked in this one.

But my first question is deleted from where? Deleted from the Blurb bookstore/server? Or deleted from your PC/

…..Tony