Can the cover label be printed full-bleed when submitting an Aperture PDF file?
Normally, when you submit an Aperture PDF file, the cover label of your book will not be printed full-bleed. This is because Aperture formats the cover label image to be 7″ wide x 6″ tall, and a SharedInk label is 6.5″ wide x 5.5″ tall (this is the size of the recessed area on the front cover where the label is placed). Since it’s not possible to scale the 7″ x 6″ image to fit into the 6.5″ x 5.5″ area without skewing the image, the cover label will have a bit of white space around all 4 edges, even if your Aperture PDF file is formatted for full-bleed printing. If you really want your cover label to be printed full-bleed, the ideal workaround is to rasterize the Aperture PDF file into individual JPEG images (one high-quality JPEG image for each page of your PDF file). Then you can re-format the cover label image without skewing the image to match the correct formatting specifications. If you are unable to rasterize your Aperture PDF file into JPEG images and still would like the cover
