Ask MagCloud: Uploading Your Publication

To replace a PDF for an existing MagCloud publication, from your Publish page select "Publication Tools" for the publication you want to edit, and then select "Edit Publication" from the dropdown menu. From the Edit Publication page, click the button to "Upload a Different PDF" and follow the onscreen instructions to browse to and upload your new PDF to the existing publication. Once the file is uploaded, Preview the new PDF to ensure everything looks okay, and then don't forget to select the button to "Save Publication" at the bottom of the page.

Note: orders placed when the prior version of the PDF was in place will not be affected, only new orders will use the new PDF. All orders will use the PDF present at the time the order is placed.

You can upload a PDF up to 300MB in size if you have the Adobe Flash Player or Microsoft Silverlight installed. Without one of these plug ins installed in your browser, the maximum file size you can upload is 200MB.

To download the Adobe Flash Player, click here.

To download Microsoft Silverlight, click here.

When you create your MagCloud publication there will be an option to add a markup beyond the cost of printing. This markup will be added to the printing price to determine the total cost of the publication when it is for sale on the website, and will also be the amount credited to your PayPal account at the end of each month for any purchased copies. Once the publication is for sale on the site, you can change your markup amount by selecting "Edit Publication" from the Publication Tools dropdown menu on your Publish page, or by selecting "Edit Publication" from the toolbar on the publication page.

MagCloud's "Upload from Flickr" feature lets you easily turn your Flickr photo sets into a MagCloud publication without needing to use a design program to create and upload a PDF file.

To create a MagCloud publication with the "Upload from Flickr" feature all you have to do is create a set in Flickr, go to your MagCloud Publish tab, click the "Create Publication" button, select "Import From Flickr" and authorize MagCloud to connect to your Flickr account. MagCloud will import the photos from the set you created and lay them out automatically.

Yes you do have to have a personal Flickr account to use the "Upload from Flickr" feature. Click here to sign up (it's free).

You can use any of your personal Flickr photo sets with the "Upload from Flickr" feature.

The MagCloud publication you create with the "Upload from Flickr" feature can be as few as 4 pages, or as many as 100 pages if using saddle stitch binding or up to 384 pages with perfect binding. Each photo in your Flickr photo set will count as one page in your MagCloud publication, so you can have as few as 4 photos and as many as 100 or 384 photos in your photo set, depending on your binding choice. If your photo set is saddle-stitched and not in a multiple of 4, or is perfect-bound and not in a multiple of 2, then we will add blank pages to your publication to fit our binding requirements.

Our template automatically scales your Flickr photos to ensure the best possible resolution and cropping. This sometimes results in photos being smaller or placed at the top of the page.

If you want to make sure your photo takes up as much of the page as possible size it at 1875 by 2625 pixels at a minimum of 300 dots per inch resolution.

You can't include captions below your photos using the "Upload from Flickr" feature, although we are definitely looking into it for future releases.

You can however title your photos and then opt to include those titles at the bottom of each page.

No, you cannot change the font or color of your publication's title. These settings are part of the template we use to create the publication.