Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me the reason to use the templates (and yes I find the blurb ones very limiting) is that I have yet to find a way to get decent text onto an "image" file ie JPEG to upload onto the book. The results look terrible, so if anyone has a solution let me know. I've had indesign gurus look at it to make up templates for the FOM2 book, but text was the issue, and Photoshop did not seem to be an answer. Cheers --- dlridings@gmail.com wrote: From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] First Blurb book Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:17:34 +0100 On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche@yahoo.com> wrote: > What I have my kids do is layout their entire page, type, background etc. > in Photoshop and then upload the flattened image as a full page bleed, > side-stepping the somewhat awkward Blurb templates. 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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information