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I recently ordered two of Apple's photo albums using iPhoto. One of the books went through without a hitch, but with one of the books there were problems with the text and Apple canceled the order. I came to find out that even though I used the guidelines to line up the text, there is a bug in program. It seems some of the text become truncated and was cut out and would not have been published had Apple continued with the order.

However, there is a way to check that the text is lined up correctly before the order is sent to Apple. Proceed normally and assemble the book and just before ordering go to Finder. Select "Go" from the Finder menu, then "Go To Finder" and enter "/tmp" in the dialog box. In the resulting window, an iPhoto folder will appear, within that folder is the PDF of the book you just compiled. Open this file and you will be looking at what Apple is sent to print your book. From there, review the book for cut text, missing images, and look at the crop lines to view what will be cropped.

iPhoto4 Update: Although this hint works with iPhoto4, the location of the file has changed. While it's still in the /tmp folder, it's now more deeply buried. If you're the normal first admin user of the machine, you'll find it in /tmp -> 501 -> TemporaryItems -> iPhoto; if you're not the first user, then '501' will be replaced by another number, but the rest of the path will be the same.
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iphoto book designs
Authored by: grefft on Dec 23, '02 11:14:22AM

does this mean that you can edit the pdf using other tools and then send it to apple for printing?



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iphoto book designs
Authored by: ParkerBennett on Dec 23, '02 04:49:34PM
I had the same problem when I designed my first iphoto book -- line breaks were not the same in the authoring tool as when published. (Also, there's no way to italicize or bold individual words, or change line leading.)

But I saw this discrpancy when I used the print preview function to save as PDF.

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iphoto book designs
Authored by: spincycle on Dec 23, '02 05:48:51PM

I think this could also be useful if you wanted to print the book your self or some how use the PDF in some other way.



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iphoto problem with book
Authored by: felix-fi on Dec 30, '02 02:19:33AM

I confirm this problem... I ordered two books in november which came out with misplaced text. By putting spaces or tabs, I was trying to get the captions below each picture. But the end result was that some words on the left got wrapped on the next line, or even where sent to /dev/null.
It took me a while to convince Apple that the problem was theirs all the way... They reimburse me... and gave me the same advice: check the book in the PDF file in /tmp/iphoto before submitting it (I think I mention that one should not have to do that... the program should get it right, period).
In fact, I was not very pleased with the overall quality (they do not print on photo paper and the resolution is pretty bad)... so I ended up printing the book myself on my epson photo printer, and made a small booklet using a spring binder.



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iphoto problem with book
Authored by: alajuela on Jun 22, '04 06:57:46PM

Sorry, but I disagree with your assessment. Apple specifically instructs the user NOT to use spaces and tabs in text boxes for this very reason. When you do that, it's hard to call it Apple's fault all the way. So you got your money back, good for you, but when you don't follow their instructions, how can you call it their fault? By following Apple's very clear instructions and guides, I have been absolutely delighted with the layout and the quality of the various formats of the 20+ books I have produced in iPhoto.



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Review iPhoto books prior to final order
Authored by: jfaughnan on Jan 31, '04 12:24:51AM

I don't think this works in iPhoto 4. I haven't been able to find where it stores the PDF prior to printing.

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Review iPhoto books prior to final order
Authored by: mbuis on Jun 02, '04 09:49:58PM
On my machine I found the book at /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/iPhoto.

As the 501 part seems a little arbitrary, you might need to open Terminal and do an ls -l to show all files:
$ cd /tmp
$ ls -l
total 8
drwx------ 4 martin wheel 136 2 Jun 21:12 501
...

If you see another directory, you might need to look in there. In Terminal, you can view the contents of the folder by:
$ cd 501/TemporaryItems/iPhoto
$ ls -l
total 32928
-rw-r--r-- 1 martin wheel 16855269 2 Jun 21:27 Book-164159056.pdf


The file with the extension .pdf and the right date should be your preview

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