Ebook output with photo book creation

First off, looking good with the intial line up of new tools and enhancemenets.
One request right off from the start is are capable of printing to an ebook format that can then be uploaded to the ibookstore? Blurb already offers this great feature but I wasn't sure if it would be included too.
Thanks,
Matt

E-book format means PDF, epub, xhtml, azw, etc, etc other formats. LR 4 offers "only" a facsimilar ebook version: PDF and thats enough. As photographer you will almost need only this format.

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Hi everyone,
I am in a bit of a bind and would greatly appreciate any help ASAP!
I ordered a hard-cover photo book that was created in Aperture 3. When previewing the order, we noticed that the photo for the cover of the book was missing (though it appeared on the dust jacket). Tried various things to fix this but then read something in the forums that the photo would not be printed on hard-cover books, only on the dust jacket. So we went ahead and placed our order...
Today (3 business days after the order was made) we received an email from Apple:
"Dear Apple customer,
When your order W313537357 was submitted to Apple, an error caused an image file for your print product to contain an empty frame on the cover. As a result, Apple is unable to process your order and you will not be charged.
If you would like to resubmit your order, we recommend these steps:
1. Use Software Update to install the latest version of Aperture or iPhoto and Mac OS X. For more details on using Software Update, refer to: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1338
2. Close all open applications
3. Open iPhoto or Aperture and preview your order. For instructions on how to preview your order, refer to: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040
4. If you are satisfied with the Preview, return to iPhoto and click “Buy.” For Aperture users, return and click “Continue”
We appreciate your business and apologize for any inconvenience."
We have tried all of this, and the preview remains the same (no photo on the cover). Also, when clicking the "Buy Book" button we get an error message that says "Empty text field detected in book. The book you are about to order contains an empty text field. How do you wish to proceed?" This gives the option to either cancel or continue, and since I have not been able to find it I always just hit continue.
I have tried contacting apple support but I guess their technical support for Aperture is only available during regular business hours.
Help?! We need this book printed and sent to us by the end of next week. We would pay extra for rush/expedited shipping, but this option doesn't seem to be available (at least in Canada).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The unified library does not work for books and other products. Aperture and iPhoto cannot open each others books, because the editing options are different.
See: Using the Unified Photo Library http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5043
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Books, calendars, and cards created in iPhoto are visible in the Source list in Aperture, but you cannot edit them. Books, web pages, and web journals created in Aperture are not visible in iPhoto.
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Need Music to go with photo book

I created a photo book on iPhoto and sent it to iDVD. Now I can't find how to put music with the photo book, but i know how to put music to the main menu. Any suggestions?

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Very disappointed with photo book quality

I created and ordered a photo book using Aperture and am extremely disappointed with the quality. The opening page has a spot of red ink on it with vertical red banding through the center of the image. Many other pages also have the banding.
Most of the images are also very grainy. I know the source images are not at fault, they are very smooth and look nice on my monitor and when I print them. In fact I ordered a few prints through Aperture and they came out really nice. The grain pattern is the same for both full page prints and those that are sized down to about 2x3.
On top of that, the paper quality seems worse than previous books I have created using iPhoto. I was always happy with those books, and I assumed Aperture would be the same if not better.
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I sent an email to Apple support, but are others still having book quality issues with the latest version of Aperture 2? This is unacceptable, especially for the amount that is charged. Would it have been better if I exported the images as jpegs, imported them into iPhoto and created the book there?

Hi guys,
I got a real trouble with aperture book printing.
The cover is Ugly it looks like it's scratched over some miles. It's Mate. And it looks printed with a poor inkjet printer.
Inside the book the photos looks almost correct but in the skies we can see some vertical line. I'm fully unsatisfied I got better result with iphoto books !
Please Apple do something. I ordered this book from France. Ans I saw on different forums that they can get better quality than this outside France.
The paper looks very light.
I'm considering ordering books from blurb. And I feel sorry cause aperture tool to create a book is awsome.
Did any french photograph experienced this ?
Regards every one.
Bye.
PS : I printed the pdf and checked at 100% the photos looks great.

Problem with photo book

I'm trying to buy a photo book I just created and though I've done this a few times before without a problem, now it's giving me a hard time. When I click "Buy Book," I receive a message that says: A connection could not be established at this time.
This is clearly a lie, as I am typing this message...Is this an Apple glitch that's being worked on? Any ideas?

Could you please be more specific? Where would I find the location? And what would I change it to? When I select preferences...which tab is it under?
Also, I have created calendars etc. in the past and never had a problem...
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Hello all!
I am new to APE and this forum; I've been reading about it (APE 7, for the most part - right now I'm reading "The Missing Manual" for version 7), and have pre-ordered version 8.
I have published many books in the past on lulu.com, but none of them contained photographs; my current book will also include many photographs (it's about half text and half photos); I'm wondering if there's a better way to create it -- using APE 8 -- than my normal method, which is to use Open Office Writer to create the document (inserting pictures from files where appropriate, I guess), and then, as a final step, converting the document to a .PDF and uploading that.
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Question: InDesign help with e-book creation

When I place my InDesign created book into the Kindle Previewer, I run into two problems: 1) Some of its paragraphs are doublespaced and some are single. However, they are all set at 14.4 pts apart. And 2) The hyperlinks that connect the Table of Contents to each chapter do not work (when they worked on InDesign). What's happening? How can I fix these problems?

If you're running Kindle Previewer (as opposed to the Kindle plug-in for InDesign), you would have to create an EPUB first. What did the EPUB file look like in Adobe Digital Editions?
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Hi,
Moving from PSE v4.0 to v5.0 Adobe changed the way Photo Album pages and Photo Layouts are created. In v5.0 and greater the photos are now loaded into Elements Editor and that is where the creation is then made. The problem is that I find the Editor is severly limted in the number of photographs it can handle. In version 4.0 I could easily create an album/layout with 40-100 photographs, however anything over 20 photographs in version 5.0 causes huge peformance issues (to the point that it is just not practical to do). Currently my workaround is to use both version, but this is a cumbersome. Does anyone have any other suggestions or comments about creating photo layouts & albums with a lot of photographs??
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The other thing I don't like is how much hard disk space a collage takes up. The creation for these 35 photos took over 300MB. That will add up fast.
What I realize is that there are two cases for photo creations (1) quick and easy and not ideal for printing - ie smaller resolutions, smaller images, etc etc, and (2) creating photo layouts/books meant to be printed. It seems PSE4 handled case 1 better and PSE5 and PSE6 are better setup for case 2. In the future I plan to make printable books, but right now I'm just trying to post small pdf photo files on my website ... so it's looking like I'll have to continue to use two versions.
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Photo book what does it do?

What does photo book do? pictures?

What program are you talking about? I'm not familiar with photo book or what application it comes in. I would take a rough guess it is a photo program of some kind.

Preview your photo book as pdf before clicking on 'Buy Book'.

Hi, here is the learning from the recent problem I had with photo books.
I would suggest that you save your book as a pdf file, before ordering. Preview your pdf file, and when you are satisfied, submit your order.
Saving a book as a PDF file:
1. Select the book in the Source list.
2. Choose File > Print.
3. Click Save As PDF
In particular, you can see how the text which looks OK in the iPhoto program will be truncated in the printing. Suggest they need to put this as a required step in the ordering process - at the moment it is not explicitly mentioned.

I created a pdf of a book in the three user controlled ways: 1 - via the Print and then save as pdf file; 2 - Right click in the book mode, selecting Preview and then saving and; 3 - Right clicking in the book mode and using the Save as PDF option.
All three gave me the same page size, 11 x 8.5.
Unfortunately iPhoto assembles and creates the pdf file after you click on the Buy Now button preventing the user from obtaining the temporary pdf file that is created for uploading and printing like we could in iPHoto 5. I suppose one could open the temp folder User/private/var/tmp/folders.501/iPhoto before clicking on that button, copy the book while it's getting uploaded and then quickly cancel the process or, if too late, go to the Apple order check page and cancel (must be done within an hour or so).
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Robert

So, what are my options,
If My Published will not reprint for you then that is not a choice
So your choices are to order from Apple or redo the book for some other source of your choice
LN

Trouble with viewing font on spine of Photo book. I can't find a way to view and edit the text which appears on the spine of the dustcover or the book itself when printed.

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What devices are they using?
What program or apps with versions are they using?
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Thanx for the prompt response, KT. I have indeed seen that thread, only just after I posted the question.
I have spent hours on the phone with what I now know is a call center in Texas on this question.
I think Apple could be a little more "hands on" with iBooks Author users, and it should also be pointed out that landscape photos will not display in portrait mode.
In my case, I used gallery widgets to display vertical photos, since they look better in portrait mode.
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Right now I have "tickets" telling me to "fix" this "problem or to disable portrait mode.
I don't want to disable portrait mode.
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