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For absolute control over the look of your printed material, create and upload a print-ready PDF. If you upload a document that is not a PDF, the Lulu converter generates a print-ready PDF. For guidelines on uploading software or multimedia content for downloadable or disc products, please see the individual Product FAQs.

Note: If you plan to upload your source document and let Lulu convert it to a PDF, embed any separate images into your source document before uploading. Do not include or link to external files by reference. If you do not embed all of your images, your project will not print as expected.

Upload a file in any of the following formats, according to your project type

Books

• Microsoft Word (.doc or .rtf)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Works
• WordPerfect (.wpd)
• OpenOffice (.rtf or .doc)
• PDF (.pdf)

Photo books/Calendars/Author Photos

• JPG (Joint Photographics Expert Group)
• GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
• PNG (Portable Network Graphic)

Front and Back Covers

• JPG
• GIF
• PNG

Artwork

• TIFF
• PNG
• JPG
• GIF (accepted but not recommended)

Audio CDs

• WAV
• MP3
• AIF

Video DVDs

• .ISO
• Single zip file containing VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS

One-Piece Covers

• PDF