Aperture 3 and Photo Book Plug In

I notice that Apple Inc officially released Aperture 3 (yes, version 3) earlier today. I also notice that Aperture now has special plug in feature included. I believe that at least four Photo Book Plug Ins for other vendors.

I would think it is very wise for Blurb to work with Apple Aperture team to come up with Apple Aperture and Blurb Photo Book Plug In. I had seen some of this issue being asked in the form in the past.

I will submit a feedback directly to Aperture team about Blurb Photo Book Plug In to be included in Aperture. I also suggest that Blurb team should look into it.

Thanks again for all you do! That would be fun!
Cordially, Brian
{a passionately Blurbarian}

Thanks for the support, guys. We’ll look into this for sure.

 – Kathy

Can do that, but what about the covers? Fine if you have InDesign, but if you don’t?

When Blurb can produce the plugins for Aperture 3, then we can use it create the whole, covers and all.

Yes, please.

This would be cool! Do it!

I agree! This would make an already huge update to Aperture that much cooler!

I want one. It will me my life easier and build my books much quicker.

add me into this please.  It would take a little bit of hassle and risk out of the process.  pleased to say my recent Blurb book created using custom book sizes in Aperture worked well.  Even managed to get the spine text correctly positioned :)

I add my vote.  We plan to order several books a year from one of these companies.  I’d prefer it be Blurb as we just ordered our 2009 books from you, but I can’t stand the work arounds we have to go through with our photos starting in Aperture.  I was contemplating switching to one of the companies that they already have a relationship with.  Can you let us know if you are making any progress with this plug-in/relationship with Aperture?

Any idea’s on when it will be ready?

I’d also be really interested in this add on if Blurb released it – please just do it ;)

Thanks

adoramapix.com already has this feature (direct aperture to adoramapix) so let’s hope that blurb can catch up as it sincerely would make a world of difference

We have enjoyed using Blurb in the past, but we just got a Mac and are moving our photo library to Aperture 3.

We will be creating all our photo books in the future with Aperture. This will make it MUCH easier for my wife. We would still like to print the book through Blurb, but not until you have your own Aperture 3 plugin.

Please create a plugin soon.

Another vote for the Aperture 3 plugin!

I don’t know many mid – pro Apple users who would use Blurb as a standalone product – Aperture & iPhoto are such a major part of the workflow (and rightly so) that you really need an Aperture plug in to capture any real percentage of the market. I haven’t tried Blurb printing yet – but would have if there was a plug in.

I’m a Photographer in Australia & am just about to print new demo books & samples. If Blurb was better io would be using them for all of my customers from now on as well. I’ll be trying the vendors with plugins right now – but the Blurb standalone spftware is going in the trash now. Until I hear about a plug in for Aperture I’ll be ignoring Blurb as an option…pity I had high hopes in the print quality :( 

Export to a PDF file and sending it to Blurb won’t work. It sounds easy, but it is not.
Blurb wants you to export to a PDF/X3 file, which only works in InDesign if you have imported Blurb’s templates for InDesign.
Aperture can not export to PDF/X3, only to PDF/X.
As for now I cannot see any option of making your design in Aperture and exporting it to Blurb.
The only option you have is, exporting your pages made up in Aperture to jpeg’s and importing them in Blurb’s BookSmart. And order your book from there.
So extremely long-winded.

At a Blurb meeting in Amsterdam this year I spoke to the spokes person of Blurb.
She said, not enough people are interested in a Aperture plugin.
I think that’s not true, because most Blurb Mac users would be glad to pay for Aperture, if the knew the bookmaking process would be that easy with Blurb’s (potential) Aperture plugin.

I think that no Pro book making company that takes itselves seriously can get away without an Aperture plugin.

But it also seems that Apple does not make it easy for album making company’s to create a plugin.
For Asukabooks mailed me that they tried to make an Aperture plugin, but they failed to do so, for it was so extremely difficult to do it right.

I think we have to create a lot more buzz. For example could one of us maybe create a website or blog with a name like wewantapertureplugins. Or something like that!
We not only have to wake up Blurb and other Pro album making companies, but we also have to wake up Apple

I quote my request to them for an Aperture plugin and their reply:

Hi Jan,

We have attempted to work with a plugin for Aperature in the past and it seems that this didn’t work out. I, unfortunately, do not have details on that at this time but do know that we’ve tried.

Please share more on what is paining you and we’ll be happy to make this as smooth as possible for you. Do you work in Aperature anyway and not in Photoshop? What part of the process is most difficult for you? I definitely know that ours is not the easiest, but we’re here to help you.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any further questions.

Thank you and have a great day.

Katie Ball
AsukaBook Customer Care

Message:
Hi folks,

When will you finally make a plugin for Apple Aperture? So the designing process will be as easy as possible and totally headache free?
That would be such a relief! For I love your books, but I hate the designing process. If I design an album, I want to do it intuitively, not break my head over numbers and be afraid if I take the right meisures, dpi, number of pixels etcetera etcetera.
And I am pretty sure that counts for most of wedding photographers.
Please make me happy.

High regards,
Jan Groot

Thank you,

AsukaBook USA

In reply to Kathy I would say that that is indeed pretty unfortunate. I do like to make books in blurb, and I will probably continue to do so, but in a much lower quantity than I would if I could use Aperture due to the huge amount of effort that it is to create books that fit my needs using your program.
You are probably underestimating the benefits of making an aperture plug-in and would suggest that you create a poll on your website to ascertain its true potential.
I am certainly not alone in this reasoning.

You have my vote for this plugin as #1 priority!

I make at least four books a year. I loved my last Blub book. But now that I’m using Aperture 3, I will not print any more books through Blurb until there is a plug-in to Aperture. Here’s another customer you have lost by not prioritizing this plug-in. Bye Bye Blurb.

Hi jangroot,

 If you think you have a quality issue with your book please contact us at customer support for assistance.

We have thousands of users making books with BookSmart every day and they’re delighted with the result. If you’re seeing a problem with your books the problem is not in BookSmart itself but either in production (a print defect) or possibly even in the images used (excessive sharpening or high ISO, for example). I’m not sure what your particular issue is, but do contact us and we’ll help you diagnose it.

Regards,
Michael/Blurb Customer Support

Aperture is fantastic. Blurb plugin would be great, hence +1. ;)

I Join the petition asking an Aperture 3 plugin.
Thanks Blurb

Please, Blurb plugin for Aperture now!

Another vote from me.
Please Blurb, make this happen soon!