iphoto crashes every time I try to process book

Same problem here ...
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Hi,
I had the same problem with a repeated crash on page 17 of a 78 page book.

I tried fix 1 and fix 2 recommended by Old Toad,checked and removed duplicate fonts, delete preferences, uninstalled & reinstalled iPhoto and then wiped my MacBook and did a clean install of Snow Leopard. I even bought more RAM as my MacBook was struggling with 2Gb and using the hard drive as virtual memory. Still the same problem with the crash on the same page.

After a bit of trial and error I found that the crash was related to a photo that I was using on a double page spread (it seems the page count includes the cover as page 1 when assembling). The photo I was using was either being zoomed too far or the zoom was extending beyond the page bounds of the book. I edited the photo, changed the resolution and cropped to the approximate proprtions. I then reimported the photo, did a bit of fine tuning and it worked fine.

I'm not sure this will work for others but it may be that zooming beyond a certain point that the effective resolution of the image is too low, or zooming in so that the exent of the photo goes beyond the page edge might cause a problem. I'd be keen to hear if this works or solves others issues.

Hi mtb_monster,

Thanks for your tip - that did the trick for me. The crash always occured at the same page, which featured a background photo which had been behaving strangely. Deleting the photo and reintroducing it, making short its behaviour was ok solved the issue.

Wow, Thanks mtb_monster and Reiner Dieden.

This worked for me as well. Had a "spread" photo occupying 2 pages that was zoomed. Ended up cropping same photo and the crashing stopped. Just sent to store successfully after 4 attempts ended in failure!

Also make sure that all other apps are quit so it's just iPhoto running when it comes to processing and uploading your info.

This fixed my issue as well - a zoomed photo in a 'spread' layout was causing the problem.

I had the same problem: iPhoto/iLife 11 crashed every time after the assembling process by ordering the book. And iPhoto crashed ad the end of the process by building a PDF. Now I found the solving of my problem: I am not allowed using more then 2 different fonts in one book. When I have more then 2 different fonts in my book - crash. And when I do not use the fixed font size (12, 14, 18, 24 etc.) and use a own font size (19, 20, 22 etc.) - crash. I don't know why, but it happens this way.
I informed Apple about this because I had a support number for my problem. So I hope Apple will fix this in the next version.
Friedrich Guenter

Tanks to turner 1948!
I had the very same problem: iphoto crashed anytime I tried to order my photobook or export it as .pdf! When I reduced the number of used fonts to 2 and avoided odd numbers, like a miracle the order was succesful.

I hope Apple will solve this problem soon, until then try this trick!
Michael Born

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