thanks all this gives me some ideas to float by the group at lunch Tuesday. I mentioned i did a blurb book about 7-8 years ago so that makes me the expert now.LOL
Dave On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven’t done a Blurb recently. > You can prepare and upload a Blurb book from within Lightroom. The process > seemed limiting and less flexible to me compared to using Blurb’s software > directly. > I never liked the Blurb utilization of text, always problems with paragraph > breaks and page breaks and reformatting the text when photos on the page get > moved or resized or even when the text is edited. They may have improved it > in the several generations since I used it. > Blurb on my Mac desktop I found to be very flexible. Quite easy to start with > one (many) of their page templates, then resize and rearrange to your hearts > content. > Once you upload the files you have x days (7?) within which to order a first > copy. So, do your preparations and wait for one of the emails that seems to > come every two or three days announcing their current deal. Upload and > purchase. > > stan > >> On Mar 26, 2017, at 10:34 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey all. A small local group i am part of "Thepassingshow". >> http://www.thepassingshow.com/members wanted to do a book of local >> pictures for Canada's 150th birthday this year. It was a big >> undertaking as some of the organizers wanted to build a pro book >> which would entail a great cost and order numbers. It has been scaled >> back to a smaller less pro book and do something with shutterfly or >> blurb or some such on line presence. We are having meeting Tuesday at >> local pub to discuss this. I suppose my question would be to Mark and >> Bill and who ever has done some blurb or shutterfly books on the >> process. I did one blurb book many years ago for family but it was >> pretty basic. >> >> -Do we need to use one of their themes or is there a way to build your >> own theme for the book page like mark does with ours. >> -Can we load the book up and wait till they have a discount offer or >> is it best to prepare the book and wait till they have a discount week >> then load it and buy it. Apparently shutterfly has 50% sales quite >> often. >> -For some reason I'm led to believe that the blurb app to use via Word >> does not work or will not work on Word for mac is that correct. >> >> I'm sure i'll think of more questions after i hit send.:-) >> >> Dave >> >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
