Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/07

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Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 12:09:48 +1030
References: <adbafb042d90f44d2dd00759fbd2e131@mail.gmail.com>

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
>
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Replies: Reply from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number)
In reply to: Message from jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number)