Who can print the book I designed in my own software

Who can print the book I designed in my own software

by Andrea

I am looking to publish custom photo books. I am looking to publish a book with a company that does not require you to use their photo software. I would like the flexibility of using my own software. Which publisher would you recommend that would produce the highest quality book?

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Oct 31, 2009

Photo Printers who support books designed in other software
by: Linda

Most of the photo book printers are so proud of their software that they don't work with other software. Or, I should say that they only accept a full page jpeg. This means that you would need to create your book and then make each page into a separate jpeg. This can be a bit time consuming. You can check out which printers accept a full page jpeg by going to the photo book publishers page and looking at the the publisher score chart and noting which ones have a "1" in the column for Digi-Scrapbooking.

The following list of printers all accept a pdf file or have other instructions that let you design your book in your own software.
Blurb - has great instructions for PDF to Book
Bookemon - accepts Word, PowerPoint, and PDF documents to start your book
DigiLabs - gives some good tips for designing book in other software
Lulu - is a good source if you want to do Print on Demand
Qoop - really relies on books being created in other software
Viovio - has a list of several programs that you can use to work with their books and instructions on doing so

From the list I am most familiar with DigiLabs as far as a range of book quality. They offer a base set of books that are similar to the books other printers offer, then have two more levels that offer a higher quality book.

Let us know if you design a book and use one of the printers.

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