Problems creating my first book in iphoto

I'm just getting started with my first book - of my children's easter holiday. I'm having a few problems...
1. I have typed text onto the bottom of some pages but when I print or preview, you can't see the text.
2. Is there any way to alter the layout of the text - eg to centre it at the bottom of the page? I can only work out how to left and right align.
3. Every time I want to print out a page or to preview it, the whole book has to be assembled again - this takes ages! Am I doing something wrong.
4. I've read a couple of the other discussions and there are warnings about how you crop your photos and making them in the ration 4:3. Am I being naiive, but don't you get a book that looks like the thing you see in front of you? Doesn't lining up the photo in the 'frame' mean that the photo is cropped like that? (I'm using the large softcover crayon template)
I'd be very grateful for any tips from anyone with more experience as I don't have time to go through all the other messages (3 children under age 5 you see!)
Helen

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
1 - Have you changed the font in the Setting pane for any of the text boxes? One possible reason you don't see the text is that you have more text in the box than it's designed to hold. Do you have any yellow triangles in the text boxes? What page layout are you using, one, two, three...?
2 - Right now there's no way to center text. If it's just one line you can add some spaces at the beginning to sort of center it.
3 - Unfortunately that's how iPhoto works. Do a Print to PDF and then you can preview the pdf file outside of iPhoto and print only those pages you want to check out.
4 - The reason for the suggested crop is that the frames on the pages are in that ratio. If your image is a different size ratio it will not fill the frame are completely or it will fill it in the smaller size and cut off some in the longer dimension if you try to snap it to the frame. Cropping beforehand just insures that you'll be able to get the entire image in the frame at the maximum size possible.

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