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April 2, 2024
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Footers Inside Margins

  • April 2, 2024
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Hello! I have a manuscript that keeps getting rejected by Amazon's KDP. The reason given is that "text is outside the margins." I have adjusted the margins on the parent pages, and all the footers are inside them. But I still get the rejections. Any suggestions?

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    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
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    April 2, 2024

    Are they within the net margins of the KDP page? It doesn't matter if they're inside your ID layout margins if those margins (plus a smidge for text descenders) is near or into the actual printing/trim margin. And note it may be on the left or right of the text frame as well as the bottom.

     

    Download the specific page template for your trim size and use it to set your ID margins, and tuck them in a bit (1/16" or 2-3pts) at the bottom to be safe.

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      mcgAuthor
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      April 2, 2024

      Thank you! I'll give it a try. MC

       

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      mcgAuthor
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      April 10, 2024

      Well, I downloaded the templates and realized that I was way ahead of the steps to repour all my manuscript into these templates. However, it was helpful to see that they are dated November, 2023. And since I first uploaded my manuscript in September, 2023, I realized that Amazon had changed their template. So I took the second part of your advice...I went through page-by-page and pulled every single text and art frame away from the margin lines. I pulled them just enough so they weren't touching the margins. I did have to change the bottom margins so they would include my footers. And then I moved the footer text frames---on the parent pages--so they weren't touching the bottom margin. On my photo essay pages, I removed the footers and went with blind folios, because they were interfering with all the art on the page, if I moved them at all. So I deleted the footers on the photo essay parent pages. The combination of all of these things did the trick. After 3 weeks of struggling with the problem, the Amazon system finally accepted my files. THANK YOU!!!

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