Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The problem with the book is?????? "TOO MANY COOKS!" In a group such as this, It's impossible to satisfy all the members of the "TRIBE!" So between now and September 1/2016 and a sort of first call for submissions? And a set book design is offered? My gut feeling??? "USE THE 2015 BOOK LAYOUT DESIGN!" Whomever the "PHOTO EDITOR/ART DIRECTOR IS!" AND RUN WITH IT! :-) It's clean and professional looking! Guys and gals? Let's KISS it "AND NEVER MIND TRYING TO SATISFY THE WHIMS OF THE PLANET EARTH LUG PHOTO TRIBE!" OK I'm out of here with anything to do with the book until Sept. or Oct. 2016. By then I'll have a couple of photographs ready to submit and will do so! As long as I'm vertical and breathing and not a bunch of ashes in an URN! :-) Dang, now there's a picture? An URN full of ashes! :-) Jeeeesh ya gotta love that line! :-) :-) Hell maybe? :-) CHEERS CREW! see you in the 2016 book! :-) Dr. ted. :-) -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Hopkinson Sent: April-14-16 3:45 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] other options for LUG Yearbook Blurb has an option to publish in an economy or premium magazine format. Their claim is that the quality equals news stand publications. As an example, the base cost (with no markup) for the premium option with 100 pages is USD $21.99 plus postage. The prices and options are all publicly viewable on the Blurb sites of course. Regarding the PDF option (vs. an eBook for iPad) I considered this for 2014. Some members expressed concerns to me and I opted not to offer that option , promising not to do so as to allay those concerns. Those included that any image displayable on a computer screen may be saved/duplicated at the displayed image quality/resolution. Hence contributors' images could be copied without control (which of course applies to any image on-line at all). So if contributors were sensitive that their images might be copied without permission this is an issue. That is a whole topic on its own of course. The PDF optionally Blurb generated and downloadable by the editor (last few Yearbooks published in print) does not appear to have any copy/read protection at all, so anyone having a copy of the file can duplicate or distribute it with no control by the editor over that. For interest the files range from ~76MB to ~260MB If a document is generated as a PDF with Acrobat or similar (not the free version) security restrictions can be implemented. However someone else such as Brian, would be vastly more knowledgeable on that topic. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus