FIrst - thanks to everyone who has given me some input on BLURB... the
scariest one being
the production run comments David Savage mentioned.... even more so
than the PITA kinda
stuff you mention below, Paul.
Stan Halpin wrote:
....
I find their templates too restrictive, their text handling to be
primitive (in short, it hoovers), and many of the details like
backgrounds and borders and captions and headers/footers are
somewhere between a royal pain and totally impossible to work with.
sounds very annoying... What I've done for making calendar pages for
cafepress was to
make the jpg file the size of the printed page - the photo and the
caption for it sized in
photoshop - I used that technique for Lulu as well. I'm very happy with
the poetry and photo book from Lulu but that is because I broke all the
rules - it was something of a PITA too.
I didn't use Lulu's photo book making stuff which sounds a lot like what
you guys are
talking about with BLURB.
Having said that, the quality is good. If your project doesn't demand
too much, it is a good source. If you like everything to be just
right, all of the text to line up, etc., you'll do a lot of fiddling.
Guess I wouldn't be using it for everything I want to publish...
On balance, I will continue to use it for the several projects on my
to-do list.
stan
Well Walt and others have commented favorably on the quality overall...
I downloaded the software but havent even fiddled with it at all...
other fish need frying first.
Christine -
I don't know about PDN magazine... hope the article is on the web for
free...:-) Sounds Like
I should investigate.
Except for the ARRP rag and Berkely wellness letters I don't get any
magazines or newspapers
anymore.
so much to do so little time!
Thanks everyone for input !
ann
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