[Leica] First Blurb book

[afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)]

Paul, I hope it works for you. I had someone make up templates in indesign, 
but the text just did not work when converted to jpeg

--- lists@paulhardycarter.com wrote:

From: PHC <lists@paulhardycarter.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] First Blurb book
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:44:33 +0100

I've decided to do down the InDesign route. Seems that, once you've  
got the document designed, you have to save each page as a JPEG (alarm  
bells ringing here already!) and drop them into the Blurb software.

Been busy today coming to terms with InDesign. It's pretty similar to  
Quark, but I haven't used Quark for 10 years. Can be frustrating as I  
know what I want to do, and pretty much how to do it, but it takes me  
hours of shifting through menus and dialogue boxes to find the right  
box to tick to do it.

My experience is, if you're thinking of upgrading to a 24", do it.  
I've got the fully loaded 24" iMac, max RAM and the faster 3.06gig  
processor. It is simply stunning to work on. The screen is crystal  
clear and it runs PhotoShop perfectly, skipping through 50Mb scans  
simply instantaneously. I don't think I've seen the spinning pizza  
once since I've been using it.

Cheers, P.

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On 4 Nov 2008, at 11:17, Daniel Ridings wrote:

> This might sound like a lot of unnecessary work, but believe me, it
> isn't. Blurb's templates can be very frustrating, particularly when it
> comes to text formatting and type faces (even texts in headers etc).
>
> It might be easier if you are doing the whole thing yourself, and not
> cutting and pasting input from other people, but if you decide to
> change typefaces in the middle of the job, it can get messy.
>
> Get the details down first, before you start stringing the pages
> together. There isn't much in the way of global editing (like changing
> typefaces in page numbers or headers on a page).
>
> It fun.
>
> Liked to hear about the 24" computer. Been looking in that direction  
> myself.
> Daniel


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