Looks like LULU.COM won't ship that easily anymore ...

I’m just in the process of creating a blurb book using inDesign. There is a process to convert InDesign spreads to JPEG for Blurb use. It’s a bit clunky, but it works and you only need to do it once. I’m going to try to set up a PS action to do it more easily. I’ll send you the action if you’re interested, once I design it.

Jonathan, please do …. I guess you are talking about pdf’ing the indesign and save it as seperate jpg’s that would be insterted as images into the blurb soft? If you know of and action …. gladly … but if i had to do it manually i’d rather quit the whole idea. i’t hard enough to only prepare for print properly the indesign files

I should be finished in a couple of days. I’ll email it to you or post it online.

god bless you if you do! and let us know what you’re working on when it’s done. i’m curious to see it

Jonathan, please do post it here or on the Blurb thread. Thanks in advance!!

I’m frustrated cause I can’t use the Blurb software as my G3 Mac is too old. I want to do a book using Blurb to send to prospective publishers or do it all myself. I’d like to try Blurb to see if it’s better that Lulu and some have suggested. Any way around this for an old Mac man?

.... looks like blurb won’t ship to united arab emirates either. anybody has any other suggestion? i can’t believe these two are the only print on demand sites, ‘couse if they are i should start thinking about seting one up myself :)

Paul, Blurb’s BookSmart software requirements say it does work on G3 Macs with sufficient power and OS:

Requirements for Macintosh

Download Size: 13MB

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later

Memory: 512 MB minimum, 1GB preferred

Processor: 1 GHz G3 minimum

Disk space to install application: 21MB

Screen Resolution: 1024×768 minimum, 1600×1200 preferred

G. Muj, if you have friends in a place to where Blurb does ship, you could have your books sent there and then re-sent to you by the friends. Shipping by Blurb to someone you know within the US is cheapest, of course. Presumably, US friends could open a Blurb book store for you as well, and you’d simply upload your books to it, from wherever on the planet you are. I’m pretty sure there are legalities involved, so if you go that route, in your shoes I’d check them out.

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I have a list of publishers who do small press run books on my laptop. It’s in for repair, but I’ll post the list when I get the laptop back on Tuesday evening.

hi:

Here are some of the online publishers that i know:

lulu.com
blurb.com
my100books.com
eyepublication.com
everbest.com

good luck,

Armando

Thanks Armado. Jonathan, if you have any other suggestions, please post them here or just pm me.

Here’s what I’ve found. The action is taking a bit longer than I thought.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/100-books.shtml

http://www.my100books.com/

http://www.mypublisher.com/

http://www.sharedink.com/

http://asukabook.com/

http://www.hhcolorlab.com/

http://catapultbooks.com/

http://prepress.com/services.html

thanks, Jonathan. how is it going with the PS actions reagrding indesign? If it’s not too much too ask, i’d appreciate if you pm me or post it here. I’m sure many of us would need it. How is your book going? when can we see a preview of it at least?

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Still working on the action – had to go out of town on a personal matter. The action is the last thing I’m going to do before I make the book, whcih I should have finished in about a week. I’ll post it here as soon as I do. Nice to have some pressure to get back to work…

OK, so I’m finally working on the action but have run into problems. What I had intended to do was this:

1. Export from InDesign to PDF
2. Open the PDF file in Photoshop, each page becomes one PS file.
3. Action will save each successive page as 001.png 002.png, etc

Here is the problem: because of the way the files open in PS (the order), they don’t save in the right order. Each spread is flipped. So, if I have pages 1,2,3,4,5,6, the script will save them as 2,1,4,5,6,5.

The action is applied to all open files after they get opened through the Import PDF dialog box. Can anyone think of a way to change the order somehow?