Ticket #243 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

Add book size options for (annoying) American standards

Reported by: mushon Owned by: adam, aco, douglas
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: Booki Keywords:
Cc: adam aco douglas

Description

This is needed as many American P-O-D providers don't support the sizes that Booki currently exports to. Example:
 https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/
 http://www.blurb.com/create/book/pricing#bw-text

Ideally, we should provide a custom size input too.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by douglas

  • Component changed from Objavi to Booki
  • Owner changed from douglas to adam, aco, douglas

Objavi can take arbitary sizes. It is just that Booki doesn't expose those options.

There are some changes pending to booki and objavi that will allow you to use the objavi interface to make booki books (at present objavi only lists old FM books), which will make this change less urgent for booki.

comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by douglas

  • Priority changed from major to minor

For now:

  1. Use the form at  http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/
  1. choose page size "custom"
  1. put in any numbers you want less than 1000 x 1414.

It is true that the page size list is arbitrary and strange. If you have new suggestions, I will consider adding them too.

comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by aco

Also, i realised custom Page size option is already in booki interface. CSS auto hide option of width/height inputbox is missing when you select "custom" option, but it works if you enter values inside. Will fix this hide/show part later. Probably also put some other options for objavi.

comment:4 follow-up: Changed 3 years ago by mushon

Yes, I've started using that, it works well :)
I would recommend adding the following sizes:
5.5"x8.5"
5"x8"
6"x9"
7"x10"
You can see more sizes here:  https://www.createspace.com/Help/Book/Artwork.do

Maybe these should actually be divided to American industry standards vs. ISO

comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 Changed 3 years ago by douglas

Replying to mushon:

6"x9"

This was already there, but called "USTRADE". Now "USTRADE6x9".

5.5"x8.5"
5"x8"
7"x10"

Added these ("US5x8", etc).

You can see more sizes here:  https://www.createspace.com/Help/Book/Artwork.do

Most of these are there also (e.g., 6.14 x 9.21 is "ROYAL"). These are presumably the names they've got on Lulu.com.

comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by douglas

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed
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