Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your efforts are fantastic, and much appreciated. Marty On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote: > To order copies, use this link: > > http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2889929 > > > > A yearbook contributor alerted me to an egregious error I made with one of > his images; I?ve taken down the old version and uploaded a corrected > version of the book for all, which will now stand for subsequent orders. > > > > Some explanation may be in order: what I have not mentioned to the group, > until now, is that I made a serious error during the book?s assembly. > Rather than use the standard landscape format, I inadvertently left the > default format checked, which is the 7x7 square book. ?I only noticed the > error on December 29th, but quickly realized that the smaller, square > format was not appropriate for the quality of images we collect. ?Blurb > said not to worry; their software allowed me to switch formats in > mid-book. ?Unfortunately, I?d been assembling the book with last year?s > software, which is not compatible with the format switch option. ?That > meant that I had to reassemble the book from scratch, which took the better > part of a day. ?I thought that everything was corrected, but unfortunately > I?d made a mistake with one image (when you load an image into the blurb > templates, it automatically sizes to fill the template area, and thus will > crop part of the picture. ?I almost always correct this, to protect the > integrity of the original image, but in this one case during the reload I > goofed.) > > > > Glad to hear that the book?s meeting with considerable enthusiasm. ?It?s > one of our better efforts! > > > > Best regards, > > Jim Shulman > > Wynnewood, PA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information