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I just received my book….and I am very pleased with it….I have read the others on the forums but it is basicly alot of complaining than trying to deal with problems that isn’t for the most part blubs fault anyway. I can understand if it is a binding issue but not a printing issue…you print the file you get…bad file =bad print…..I am in the business of wide format printing and don’t get me started with all those that want colors to match there monitors at home or their printers at home…I admit I made a huge mistake by not reading the directions to start a 400 page book…I got it today and I love it…I would like to go back and change the photos I used to sRGB as all of mine were sent in Adobe98…..and was going to go up on the saturation on some of the photos…my problem is the amount of photos I have in this book….I could run an action to change all the profiles to sRGB and import the new files in my book ….If I do that …do I have to place the photos back in their spaces or will blurb pic them up and use them if the old files are missing…I won’t change the file names….mic

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micluc
Dec 7, 2007 9:26pm PDT
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Hi Michael,

I needed to adjust the 800 photos in my book and I did not wan to re-import them back into blurb. It would take a lot of work to import them and you would have to make any adjustments to zooming and positioning of each photo.

So I used the following method:

First make a full backup of your book, just in case you make any mistakes. Locate your book under the folders \BookSmartData\<name of book>. Easy way to create back up is to simply copy the entire folder (and sub folders) to another location on your hard disk (make sure you copy the folders, not just move them).

When you import photos into BookSmart your photos are copied into the sub folder Library under your book folder. They are also renamed as a long sequence of unique number/letters (called GUID) with the extension “.original”.

Simply rename the .original files to .JPG and then edit them in place. If you are running under Windows it is far easier to do this in a good old CMD window. Open the CMD window and goto that directory and use the command:

RENAME *.original *.JPG

You can now edit all your .JPG files as required.

When you have finished editing then rename all your JPG files back to .original

RENAME *.jpg *.original

When you import your images into BookSmart, it will also create low resolution images that are used in the editing and preview modes. These are the .ZOOM files in the library folder. You should now delete all this files. From CMD window;

DEL *.ZOOM

When you open your book in BookSmart, it will see that the ZOOM files don’t exist and will re-create them from the .ORIGINAL files. This will occur as you page through all your pages.

You should now have all your new updated JPG’s back into your book.

You may want to try this procedure on a test book first to make sure you know how it works. I suggest create a new book. Drop in 10 new photos and run through this procedure. When you edit the JPG, make big changes to the colours, so that it is very obvious that you have got the new photos.

The process is a little complex, but it will save you a massive amout of work over re-importing all your photos.

Cheers,

Martin

 

 

 

 

 
Posted by
MartinRobert
Dec 8, 2007 3:11am PDT
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