Blurb book, exact dimensions 30 x 30 cm?

Dear experts,
I want to create and publish a Blurb book with Lightroom 4.3. I decided to use the 30x30 cm format. I created every page by my own design. Every page is one JPG-file (300 dpi), with pictures and texts. Which must be the exact dimensions of my JPG-files, so that I can put it 1:1 on a free, empty page in Blurb plugin in Lightroom? Thank you for every information!
Kind rgeards, Korjakski

I disagree that this is a Blurb limitation. As long as you work within blurbs specifiation they would not mind if I rotate an image, add a border or make sure that the frame dimensions actually meet my image dimensions as 3:2 or 4:3.
Of course I use other print-on-demand companies, but then the Book module is useless.
The best I can do is to set up a publishing service to my hard drive to issue the jpgs which I can enter into their proprietary book creation softwares. If I decide I need another development tweak, it is republishing. No means to get metadata like titles and captions across from my catalog.
The book module could have been specified in a very smart way, linking with the print module for template creation and refreshing this module at the same time, but it wasn't. Adobe's choice.
One that will be rectified, I hope, in LR5.
Cornelia

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