Iphoto 5-- Large Book with Miserable Printing!

I have ordered 4 large ibooks and have never before had any problems, until now. In the most recent book i ordered, the color is washed out terribly! Some of the images also appear very soft...does anyone know what went wrong? I would like to return the book and have it reprinted, but I don't know how to go about it. I really do not want to keep paying for badly printed books...any thoughts out there?

Hi Helen,
I just did a test run to see if I had the same problem as you, and I do.
I got an Automator Applescript error. I do remember seeing posts about some Automator actions/workflows being broken with 10.4.3 in the other forums.
Maybe you might find more info by going to one of those forums. I do think that this will have to be a bug fix.
Wish I could have been more help, but I think we are all in the same boat right now.
Lori

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