Mark, That's still considerable amount of work. Kudos to you for doing to!
I was just curious: why didn't you use PDF? While I haven't looked at all the details, - Blurb seems to allow uploading PDFs. And InDesign (CS3) can embed ICC profiles in those. Igor On Apr 7, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > By the way: Even though the book is being printed by Blurb again this > year, I designed the whole thing in proper page layout software (Adobe > InDesign) rather than the dreadful Blurb "BookSmart" software. It made > design and layout vastly easier while also giving many more options > for overall design. Things like text flow between frames are worlds > better. Editing and revising are a snap. Fewer headaches than last > year, to put it mildly. > > The final pages are then exported as JPEGs and dropped into the Blurb > software for uploading. Pretty cool. The only downside is that > InDesign won't export JPEG files with embedded ICC profiles. Yes, in > 2010 InDesign still won't embed ICC profiles in exported JPEGs (I'm > assuming this will be fixed with CS5 this fall), so I had to add the > ICC profiles in Photoshop. A quick Action automated the process. > > So we get a much better book design (IMHO) and easier workflow as > well. Not a bad deal. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
