gjconstructs
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Photography

Q: Why is book printing disabled?

I just tried to print a book from Aperture and was told that this feature is no longer supported.

 

There is no information regarding how I am or even if I am able to get this done anymore.

 

It looks looks the service is still available using the crippled Photos software but no indication on how I transfer my Aperture created books to Photos.

Posted on Apr 24, 2016 11:51 AM

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Q: Why is book printing disabled?

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 24, 2016 12:53 PM in response to gjconstructs
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    iLife
    Apr 24, 2016 12:53 PM in response to gjconstructs

    The Print products for Aperture have been dropped without a replacement. You can print books from Photos for Mac, but not migrate your books to Photos for mac, just the albums with the photos.  It is not possible to create similar books like your aperture books in photos, because you cannot create custom book formats. You are stuck with the predefined book templates and page layouts.

     

    what you can do is save your Aperture books as PDF and upload them to other print services. Presto Photos claims to be able to print aperture books.

  • by gjconstructs,

    gjconstructs gjconstructs Apr 24, 2016 2:06 PM in response to léonie
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Photography
    Apr 24, 2016 2:06 PM in response to léonie

    This make no sense. Apple had to have paid a programmer to remove this feature. Why would they do that?

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Apr 24, 2016 3:38 PM in response to gjconstructs
    Level 10 (84,066 points)
    Photos for Mac
    Apr 24, 2016 3:38 PM in response to gjconstructs

    You will have to ask Apple - http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html - or use the contact us links at the bottom of this page - we are users exactly like you and have no idea "why" anything - we work with that "is"

     

    You choices are to use a third party like Presto Photos or to move to Photos (which is much different and  less capable than Aperture especially in print products)

     

    LN

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 24, 2016 8:18 PM in response to gjconstructs
    Level 10 (105,337 points)
    iLife
    Apr 24, 2016 8:18 PM in response to gjconstructs
    This make no sense. Apple had to have paid a programmer to remove this feature. Why would they do that?

    Apple stopped last year the development for Aperture and iPhoto completely. Aperture 3.6 is the last  Aperture version, that has been sold by Apple. You can no longer purchase Aperture. It is not the first time that Apple dropped the print products support for older software, when the new and currently supported software used different themes and book sizes. The support for printing from iPhoto '8 has been dropped a few years ago, two years ago we could suddenly no longer order books and cards from an iPad, after iOS8 came out, and now the Print Products Store are only printing the products ordered via Photos for Mac. It is not only a software question, also of the printing equipment for the different book sizes and types of bindings. There are no more wire-bound books for example.