Unnecessary page limit for Blurb book in Lightroom Book module

I'm posting this per Julieanne Kost's request following an email exchange regarding this topic. I am in the process of making a photobook using Lightroom and discovered when I reached page 240 that I couldn't add any additional pages, much to my surprise. I was surprised because I knew from Blurb's website that the limit for standard paper is 440 pages and mistakenly assumed that this limit would also apply within Lightroom. I did more research online and found many others being surprised by this limitation after spending hours and days on a photo book. I will likely work around this by exporting from Lightroom to .jpg and uploading to Blurb, but that will take extra time and effort and reduces the appeal of using Lightroom to create a Blurb book. I had also tried exporting from Lightroom to .pdf only to find that the .pdf format exported by Lightroom is not compatible with the requirements of Blurb.
My recommendation in the short term would be for Adobe to warn Lightroom Book Module users up front that Lightroom's page limits differ from those if going directly through the Blurb website.
My recommendation in the longer term would be for the Adobe engineers to make whatever changes are necessary in the Lightroom code to allow for 440 pages when standard paper is selected (and more specifically to make the page limits match the limits of Blurb's actual books). If there is any way to impress upon Adobe management the importance of this, I believe it would be greatly appreciated by many Lightroom/Blurb users.

I agree with that (though a 330 page Blurb book would break the bank :-)
I would also like to see the LR book module allow at least all the same Cover Templates as Booksmart does - I feel really constrained with both of them but much more so with LR...At least let us Drop a Full bleed finished cover on to the front and back covers!
Lately, I do all the page making in PS, move to LR to manage the page numbering and then export to jpg and ingest to Blurb to make my books...pretty kludgy, isn't it?

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Thanks to the gurus in advance.

Good luck. Just as a thought: You can layout the entire book with a page count as you desire, then click on the book to start the process by which you order the book. The first thing Aperture will do is ask for your account info, then it will assemble the book. This creates the PDF file to be sent to printing services and can take anywhere from a few minutes to a half hour. After it is finished, a window comes on the screen asking if you would like to purchase the book or proof/preview the book. The option buttons given are to "continue" or to "reveal in finder." If you reveal in finder, it will show the hidden temporary folder in which this book is located. You can copy it and paste it on your desktop if you do not intend to order it through apple. Then, you can use the PDF layout to send the book to another publisher. I am not sure how dual page full spread photos work out, nor do I know how the cover works out with other publishers as they have different Cameo sizes and quantities. But, you can send it to a different publisher nonetheless. I believe the PDF file is created at 300 dpi. I am not sure though.
Next, if you would like to share the PDF's with a client, someone in the family, etc...I read somewhere that you can open Colorsync utility and the select the desktop PDF book file and open it in Colorsync utility and there is some sort of drop down filter menu that allows manipulation of the file including a reduction in file size. Save as another file name so as not write over the original, and you have a reduced copy.
I know little, but I try to remember what I read. These are good tips. This board is full of them and the people who populate these discussions are very knowledgeable. I just try to pass on what I find.

Is there a page limit for a PDF?

I thought this would have been asked, but nothing came up in the search.
I'm trying to compile a font book and we have over 10,000 fonts, so if I have a display page per font, that's way many pages.
thanks!

Distiller 8 seems to max out at around 1 million pages. I have seen PDFs with more than 1 million pages created by other tools.
The real limit is file size: 2 GB until a while ago (IIRC until Acrobat 7), close to 10 GB by now (due to the cross reference table not being able to use byte offsets larger than what fits into 10 digits).
So one may reach a limit not because of maximum number of pages but because of maximum file size (max. byte offset values in xref table). Though I bet you are not even close to a single GB with your font book...
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I wrote to Blurb but they told me to contact Lightroom
Any help please ?
Thanks

jcal0213:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Yes, you can turn on or off page numbering in the Setting pane in the book mode. You could add a blank page at the end and then create a text document, start a print to PDF and select the Send PDF to iPhoto option. then you can add that image of the index you created in your text editor to the last page in a one photo per page layout. Here's a landscape and portrait text document added that way. You can set up any page layout you want to use the file and any application to create the index file.
Do you Twango?
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I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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There's a whole lot to read in your post, and frankly I have not read it all.
Having said that, this troubleshooting guide should help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
In particular, pay attention to the mobile device support sections near the bottom, assuming you have already done the items above it.

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You would need to go to the computer containing the book.
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File>Export as Catalog and store on media you can use to transfer
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File>Import from another catalog and bring the transitory catalog into your master catalog.
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I have Mac book Pro last generation.
While preparing the book with Lightroom, I used new proposed tool that I found very useful , to place photos as background with different type of opacity. After upload to Blurb some of these backgrounds have disappeared at all and some have very bright color (overexposed) , so I am afraid to launch the print . After export into Pdf, everything works correctly.
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See screen shot:
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* And even then, as far as I can see, there is no method for differentiating between the Blurb papers. It is just one profile to fit all.

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Here are some comments from Blurb concerning using Blurbs 'PDF to Book' workflow, which is similar to what I just described:
From Me:
My Workflow Details:
My objective is to process all images in LR4 and then export them as 300 dpi, ProPhoto RGB profile, 16 bit TIFF images for layout in InDesign using Blurb's InDesign plugin (Blurb Book Creator CS6 v2.0.2.34d8). I will soft proof the placed images inside InDesign using its 'Proof Colors' tool and the Blurb_ICC_Profile.icc profile. Once the InDesign layout is complete I will do the RGB to CMYK Blurb_ICC_Profile conversion during the export to PDF process using the Blurb PDF X-3 Export Preset v1-1.
Blurb's Resonse:
Response Via Email(David) - 07/18/2012
Using InDesign and our Blurb InDesign Plug-in does mean you're using the PDF to Book Workflow. This is because your InDesign files will ultimately be exported/uploaded as PDF files.
Regarding, "Once the InDesign layout is complete I would like to do the RGB to CMYK Blurb_ICC_Profile conversion during the export to PDF process":
Unfortunately, there is no option for this and it's actually unnecessary during the export process. Our printers convert and process all images as CMYK using the Blurb ICC Color Profile, so even if you upload/export them with an RGB color profile, they'll be converted to CMYK for the production process.
My Response:
Customer By Email - 07/19/2012 05:10 AM Thanks for the explanation David. It sounds like I can just upload the PDF file using my ProPhoto RGB profiled PDF, but I would prefer to do the conversion from ProPhoto RGB to Blurb ICC CMYK profile. This way I can see the results before uploading the file to Blurb. Can I use the Blurb PDF X-3 Export Preset v1-1 with Output > Color Conversion to Destination > Blurb CC profile, and then upload the PDF file myself? If so please advise where I should upload the file on the Blurb website.
Blurb's Response:
Response Via Email(David) - 07/20/2012 03:49 PM Hi Todd,
If you do end up exporting your PDFs with the workflow you're referring to, you can upload your files here:
http://www.blurb.com/make/pdf_to_book
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Yes. I found another discussion on a blog that discussed the whole thing in detail. Has anyone found a profile that comes close that one could use in LR to soft proof for Blurb? Some said they used sRGB, but I compared and there is a huge disparity. Blurb color space is about 2/3 smaller than sRGB.

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