photo book / printed photo album

[aguila]

Hi guys,

I'ld like to produce a printed photo book / photo album. There are a number of companies offering this here in Germany and some also have software for Linux.

Has anyone ever installed that kind of software on PCLOS? Is it save? Could you recommend anyone (needn't be german, maybe it's the same software anyway)

Would be happy for any suggestions.

Thank you,

Aguila

[Was_Just19]

Have you looked at Open Office to see if it will do what you want?

There is albumshaper - or maybe flphoto - in the repository which will export to different formats including HTML, and maybe those could be imported to some printing application .......

Essentially, no, I have not had the need to make a book of pics for printing, but that is the direction I would look first .....


regards.

[aguila]

Maybe I wasn't clear enough, I don't want to print it myself but order it from a store that produces a hard cover book of it.

[Was_Just19]

Maybe I wasn't clear enough, I don't want to print it myself but order it from a store that produces a hard cover book of it.

Yes I guess I misinterpreted your wish to produce a printed book  ......  seems what you want is software to prepare the contents of the book and then bring it to a printing house for final printing?

I would think that the printing house would be the place to go .......  ask them what format they require your file to be ......  I would not be surprised to hear it is some proprietary format specific to the software they use .......  but it is worth asking them I would think.

[aguila]

check this for example:

www.fotobuch.de
www.pixum.de
www.xxl-poster.de

and there are more...

[Linuzoid]

If the publishing place has Linux programs, you can make a request at the Package Suggest section. It must be source code and down-loadable I suppose.

[Was_Just19]

check this for example:

www.fotobuch.de
www.pixum.de
www.xxl-poster.de

and there are more...

Well the first one offers freeware for Windows, the third one software for Win & MAC ...... 

Unfortunately I do not speak German so that is as far as I got   

I guess you could run Win in VirtualBox and install some of those there to produce the file type the print house requires.

[The Chief]

Would be happy for any suggestions.

Thank you,

Aguila

Seems to me I remember (from a similar search a few years back) that there are a couple that have web based preparation software.  You upload any pictures you want to include, and do all the typing and arrangement right in your web browser.  Then they will print the book for you, and keep the file on record so you can print another copy anytime you want (for a fee, of course).

Sorry I don't remember any names

[pags]

In an instance like this, I would be more focused on the quality of the product than the tool(s) used (as mentioned, a VM can be used if wine fails).
I've used Blurb (http://www.blurb.com/), and been very happy with the results (don't know if they service Germany, off-hand) using a VM.
There are also some forum threads there about people using Scribus under linux to some success, but haven't tried that, myself....

[aguila]

Thanks everybody.

I absolutely agree with you, pags. "Keep it clean", that's why I was worried about getting some queer piece of software.

I guess I'll go for the virtual machine solution or see if I can upload a PDF.