BookSmart
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Hello Actumeruk, Currently we don’t have any plans to release a Linux version of BookSmart, but if demand increases substantially we will definitely reconsider. Sorry for any inconvenience. Ben Senior Technical Support Specialist |
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I just tried to run booksmart under WINE, but it crashed pretty hard. The technical response email I was sent tells me that there’s no plans to support neither WINE nor Linux. It’d be great if you did though… I want to make a book of wedding photos and much prefer the look of Blurb.com rather than the photobucket alternative that was sugested to me. Unfortunatly I’m running linux only and am going to have to wait until I can borrow a Windows machine before I can attempt my magnus opus :-( |
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Since BookSmart is written in Java, I bet it’s not too hard to figure out how to run it on LInux. Go ask your hacker friends :)
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If we continue to ask, maybe they could start porting Booksmart to linux box! |
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Let’s hope so! In terms of PR, a Linux version would only be a good thing, not to mention all us potential authors (customers) who are currently excluded! I’ll keep my fingers crossed. |
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Please count my vote for a Linux version of your software, I think if it’s being developed in Java won’t be so hard to port it to Linux. Thank You, Carlos |
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I am a Linux-only person too, and I have to borrow a Windows machine every time I want to use Blurb. Really, why else would you use Java :-) -mike |
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+1 For a Linux version of BookSmart David |
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I too want use it under linux!!! wy |
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Count this as another vote for a Linux version |
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Hello, I try use Booksmart under Linux (jvm: 1.5.0_10-b03 jre: 1.5.0_10-b03 java: 1.5.0_10), but i i not seen preview for image in My Imported Photos and software freeze when i place new photo to book. :-( |
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Hi, Here’s another urgent plea to have BookSmart working under Ubuntu/Linux. Please count me also! truico |
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Wow, lots of people wanting a linux version. How about it, Blurb? |
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+1 for a platform independant Java version. I use FreeBSD, but a Linux version would be swell too! |
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+1 for Linux. I use only Ubuntu. Booksmart is made in Java, let’s go, Linux have full java support too! |
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Any news? |
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I vote for Linux version too BUT before you start porting it, first make the Win and Mac versions usable enough please, because (looking at too many angry posts here) it seems like these two versions deserve some substantial tweaking. Thank you. |
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+1 for a Linux version too! :-) |
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I’m a Linux only user at my jobe because of my job, and at home because of taste. I had to use VMWare in order to use Booksmart, this is costly in terms of CPU power. I would love to see Booksmart in Linux. My guess is that Booksmart would be quite easy to port because it’s java and there are some people who had made attempts, and it worked! but it’s functionality is crippled. C’mon, just fix this little glitches, pleeease :-). Look at Dell, they’re selling lots of PC’s with Linux. Linux users are very loyal to a company that supports them, even to the level of Mac users’ loyalty to apple. Thank you very much. |
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Another Linux (Ubuntu) user here. Would love if Booksmart would run on that platform. |
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Well, I actually already e-mailed the blurb people directly before I found this thread, but I, too, would definitely love to see a Linux version of the software. I really want to use this for my wedding book and I hope that the software is available by then. |
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I would love an Linux (Ubuntu) version. I use Windows at the office because I have to. At home, where I hope to compile my "365" book, I use linux on three computers and soon a fourth. Please add linux support. |
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FWIW I would also love to see it on linux. I just found out about blurb yesterday and I am very excited about doing a book or two with blurb. |
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Definitely another vote for BookSmart on Linux. Especially since it’s Java already, it can’t be too much work. On top of that, it could distinguish "blurb" from the other photo book makers out there as the "OS independent" guys: Giving customers the freedom of choice. Not a bad thing at all, in my opinion. |
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I definitively agree with you, mmayer. Please "blurb" make your nice Booksmart work on Linux too. |
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Another +1 for linux! perhaps if we say pretty-please? |
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One more for Linux . I am on Ubuntu 7.10. I would love to support Blurb, but I don’t do Windows. |
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Another vote for a Linux version of Booksmart, please! |
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I too want a Linux version. I have been running Linux exclusively for 6+ years and I am not going back. I got BookSmart running under WINE but it randomly crashes, not something I want to deal with. So until there is a way to use Blurb with Linux I am going to keep my business elsewhere (Walmart has a flash tool that works, it is not optimal but it does work). I will even take this a step further. I am a Java developer (always on Linux) I will make the necessary changes to the code if Blurb will open it. What say you Blurb? If not, can you at least give us an API? I will be glad to add a Blurb export tool to F-Spot. |
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I too wish to add my support for a linux version ( I am on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10). I came to blurb by way of JAlbum which works just fine on my machine. No Linux, then no books, I am afraid. |
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+1 for Linux |
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+1 for Linux |
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+1 on Linux I just leave windows since vista exists. Ubuntu 7.10 is a very simple solution of replacement. Except for BookSmart. As i’m a java developper, i don’t undestand why there is no version of this fabulous software on Linux. Do you accept (authorize, not support) some patch to make it available on Ubuntu ? It seems that with a good java command line (without nativeSmart.dll) and perhaps a patch for system where property SplitPane.supportsOneTouchButtons=false (so no leftbutton, no right button on splitpane and some nullpoinerexception…), Booksmart could works on linux. Can i try to make it work on linux ? how can I give you result of these experiments ? |
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Hey All, Woah, nice show of support. This thread will let Blurb’s "deciders" see the demand for themselves :-) Linux is a great platform and it is on our radar for sure. Jan, who posted back in October on this thread, may have nailed it when he said our first commitment should be to users of the currently supported platforms. We admittedly have some bugs to fix in Beta, and are pouring all our engery into the next release (which will focus exclusively on stabilization and performance). Beyond that, Linux support is a terrific idea for an upcoming improvement, and I encourage all of you to continue posting. If anyone manages to get BookSmart up and running on Linux, please let us know by repying to this thread, or by starting a new one! Best regards and Happy New Year, Jeremy Blurb Customer Support |
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I also would appreciate linux support. |
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Hi Jeremy, I effectively try to make it work on my ubuntu 7.10. It seems to work perfectly. I don’t benefit of your nativesmart.dll for filedialog but features ( book realisation, upload…) works . My goal was not to hack your application, but just make progress the management of linux platform . To proove it, you have a new linux customer because I order (not exactly me but somebody of my familly) a book done with this non official development. I wait for the result. Modifications are only what i explain previously : "It seems that with a good java command line (without nativeSmart.dll) and a patch for system where property SplitPane.supportsOneTouchButtons=false (so no leftbutton, no right button on splitpane and some nullpoinerexception…), Booksmart could works on linux. " it is the case. Modifications done seems compatible with every linux. The last point : It’s seems that i have more probleme with java1.6. With 1.5 it’ OK
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Hi Clecuret and hi all, I’m also a software engineer and a Java programmer and I would help you or Blurb to port Booksmart in Linux (expecially Ubuntu). I use only Linux for several years, and I have no intention to come back to Windows. |
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Hi imopen, it works, it’s sure. One book has been done with the official bookmart 1.9.2 patch with a small jar |
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Originally, BookSmart was written to be an entirely platform independent application. We wanted to be able to release Mac OS X and Windows versions of BookSmart simultaneously with a small development team. To do that we used Java which, as several people here have mentioned, runs on Linux. However, Java has presented a few problems (mostly around image processing) that compel us to write more platform-specific code. Therefore, supporting Linux as BookSmart matures is going to be much more complicated than just having an installer. Frankly, we just don’t have the time. For now, getting things right for Macs and PCs is our number one goal. |
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lukechastain, Perhaps you could post more details on the issues you’ve seen with Linux. Especially if you’re seeing issues with specific classes. I’m sure that talented people such as clecuret, and imopen can probably help to find solution. Heck, even if its something as crude as just system calls to ImageMagick would be an improvement. (I’m not actually suggesting that) A flat no seems rather short sighted. Especially when people are offering to help in ways that won’t devulge any of your actual code. |
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I finally received the first book make on Linux Ubuntu7.10 and booksmart 1.9.2 (with a small patch). No surprise. the result is excellent. I hope that politic around linux support will change soon. Perhaps some aspects are "more complicated" but I’m witness in fact that a basic support of Linux could be enough to authorize people who vote on this forum to use this good service named blurb instead of services delivered by concurency. |
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That’s great news! Would it be possible to dowload the patched version, or at least post the patch, so other people could try booksmart on Linux? Thank you very much for your effort. As a photograph who only work on Linux I really appreciate it! |
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The patch that I isolated is only a workaround to use Blurb without exception on Linux. The goal of my post is to have permissions from blurb to offer for free this workaround by waiting time to consider really this platform. If you want to have more details about steps to make it work; you could contact me on my google mailing address or facebook… |
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Great Clecuret! |
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Hello clecuret. Probably you can post a walkthrough in your blog. I think that a lot of us are interested in your findings. Hello clecuret. PS. Can you post here your gmail address? Your blog is in French (I think) and I cannot find a link to your email address. |
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Bonjour clecuret, Français moi-même, je n’ai pas réussi à trouver votre e-mail. Et je reste très intéressé par la "recette" permettent d’utiliser BookSmart sous Linux! La mettre sur votre blog me semble être une excellente idée, si cela est possible évidemment. Merci encore |
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Clecuret, I can really understand your persistence and thoroughly follow-through, for one sensitivity aspect of issue, I am afraid and very hesitate to chime in and say something. You really need to follow-through the issue with Blurb Team particularly with BookSmart software engineering team to address to include Linux support. Cleruent, please try to understand that BookSmart is a and copyrighted, trademark property of Blurb Inc. Do not do anything unless you have the permission by Blurb to include patch or something on your own. In a few words, be very careful. That is all I want to say. Please kindly refer to all information related to Policies and Legal and all. I’ll just step aside and will not participate in this discussion because I do not want to cause any flamed or hot topic debate. It is just that, Clecuret, be careful. |
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In a few words, just for your information. With frame of reference to Blurb’s Legal and Policies on aspect of End User License Agreement, known as “EULA”, have a look at below: http://www.blurb.com/about/eula Keep smiling and Happy Blurbbing! |
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Hi brianbonitz and many thanks for your answer you say :"please try to understand that BookSmart is a and copyrighted, trademark property of Blurb Inc. Do not do anything unless you have the permission by Blurb to include patch or something on your own." I agree and plainly respect this position. I’m a software developer and manager and know that privacy have to be preserved. I also understand that blurb policy is not currently to support linux platform. It’s is the case of many software company. HP for exemple doesn’t want to support Linux but they explain that some solutions exist to use their printer on Linux with any HP guarantee My only goal by posting here was to offer to blurb (for free of course) one way to operate this excelent software with your potential linux customers. Authorization of Blurb company is of course necessary before any publication. I will of course respect blurb’s decision to accept or deny my proposal (blurb can send me an email directly if it’s more confortable). NB : en francais cette fois : désolé mais depuis mon premier post, mon but est d’aider blurb a proposer une solution (meme imparfaite). Si Blurb ne veut pas, je ne suis pas maso et ne pourrai diffuser d’autres informations. Je respecterai leur décision. Le patch ne sera pas sur mon blog et ne le diffuserai pas sans autorisation. Pour mon mail il s’agit de mon alias chez gmail. A bientot.
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BookSmart for Linux?
