Transfer iPhoto book to SnapFish
Jan 04, '12 10:51:00AM
Contributed by: pbeyersdorf
I was nearly done laying out a photo book in iPhoto when I got a coupon for half off a photo book printed from Snapfish. I wanted to take advantage of the coupon but didn't want to have to redo all the work I had put in laying out the book. With a modest amount of work I was able to transfer my book over. Here's how:
First I exported the photo book from iPhoto to a PDF by right clicking in the background of the photo book layout and choosing 'Save book as PDF". Then I created an Automator workflow to create a JPG image from each page of the PDF that went like this (just search for each command, drag it over, and select the option as indicated below):
- Get selected Finder items
- Render PDF Pages as images
- Move Finder Items (to Desktop)
- Rename Finder Items (Make Sequential)
Save the workflow. After running the PDF through this workflow I had a series of sequentially numbered images files, one for each page of the book. I uploaded these to Snappish and used the full page layout option to make each image a full page. Presumably you could do something similar for other Photobook printing sites.
I did have to reproduce the layout of the front and back covers in Snappish, and everything else was just as I had it in iPhoto. Of course the layout in Snappish was static and could not be tweaked, so make sure you have everything just the way you want it in iPhoto before transferring it over.
[crarko adds: I haven't completely tested this one, but the Automator workflow was pretty simple to create.]
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