how to export a book made in Aperture to make a similar book in Photos?

I also have this problem and am trying to solve the problem as I write this.

I saved my book as images (jpg) in a PDF file (eash page is an image). Imported the images into Photos. Created a photobook in the same size with single-images pages and placed them in the order I want. The cover and flap may be a problem though. Have't figured it out yet, but maybe this will help you get started.....

Good luck!

Does anybody know haw to do this in short time. The book has an elaborate design and I'm concerned I will end up with a different book format made on Photos and my product to the customer will not be the same.

Apple killed such a great pro app, Aperture and now is making the life miserable to all of us who remained faithful to

The templates in Photos are very different form the book templates in Aperture, and Photos does not support custom layouts.

You can change the fonts in the text boxes, but it is not possible to resize the photo boxes. You have to use the layout of the pages astray are.

To recreate your book in Photos browse the available book themes and pick the one, that comes close to your Aperture book.

To transfer your book project to Photos for mac, select all photos you used in your book project in Aperture plus the book project, then export the selected items a s a new library with "File > Export > ...as new library".

Then drag the exported library onto the Photos icon in the Dock. Photos will create a new library from the exported library and open it in Photos. The book will probably have been migrated as an album. Use the command "File > New Book" and drag the first photos to the new book project.

I would not drag all photos at once to the project, because Photos will create automatically pages for you, alternating between the different page layouts. And usually it will pick the wrong photos for the full page spreads. It will be quicker to add the pages as you go with the correct number of photos per page that you want.

Check out Presto Photos - they claim to be able to print iPhoto and APerture books - I have never used the and I've seen no feedback here but it is wroth looking at and if you try it please report your results to help others

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I suggest that you go the the photobook that you created in Aperture and click on Print. That will open a window where you can select from the lower left side corner (where it says PDF). Select the option Save PDF to folder as JPG , and save it in a folder that you have created on your desktop. Each page will be saved as an image. You can open it with Preview to see exactly what the pages will look like.

You then open Photos and import it to a photobook of your choosing and select single-photo pages where you will place each image, just as they were in your original book. It worked for me. However, Presto Photos has also been helpful and would be your other option.

Best of luck!

If the "Save PDF to a folder as JPEG" option should be missing, you can also save to a PDF file, then open the DF file in Preview and use "File > Export" to split the PDF version of your book into JPEG photos or TIFFs.

When I select "Save PDF to folder as JPEG", the book is processed, but then I get a window called "Copy Finder Items". Selecting 'continue' gives a window that says "The action "Copy Finder Items" encountered an error." Any help?

Bingo ! Same problem this morning - just finished a phonebook of a holiday in Japan and Aperture tells me that I can no longer order through Aperture and I have to "upgrade" to the Photos app. Of course the Photos app is not an upgrade as far as producing books go and I have 50+ books in my Aperture library that I can no longer upgrade.

When Apple stopped supporting Aperture I switched to Lightroom but preferred the flexibility of Aperture for the books - and of course the format fits all the other books I have.

Very poor from Apple - no notification (they have on file all the customers who have ordered a photo book from Aperture).

The book formats in Photos are too restrictive and this is another retrogressive step from Apple abandoning longstanding clients.

When Apple stopped supporting Aperture I switched to Lightroom but preferred the flexibility of Aperture for the books - and of course the format fits all the other books I have.

You can try to select your book product in Aperture and then export just the book as a new Aperture library (File > Export > Book as new Library).

Open this new library in Photos by dragging the new library onto the Photos icon in the Dock. Then look how your book will migrate and if you can get something close to what you want in Photos.

if you do this will the book still be in aperture? I want to know if the book will then be in both aperture and photo???? I made a book and was going to send it to presto for printing. However, presto has slightly different sizes and they do not a comparable dust jacket. I have made sooooo many books in aperture i really want to keep the same look, size and layout. thanks. If i can keep the book in both aperture and photo I might try to duplicate the book in photo and see what that looks like before trying presto

This table shows you the sizes and quality what the Photos books look like: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201882

And here are sample photos: http://www.apple.com/osx/print-products/

The books look similar, you just have less control over the layout.

if you do this will the book still be in aperture?

If you export a partial library of your book, the original book will remain in Aperture. You get a second, new library just with the book, that you can try to work with in Photos.

thank you

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This is brilliant! i have been searching for a solution for the past week. I have done as you suggested and everything looks great so far. I just need to put the pages into the a book. What did you do about the flaps on the cover? I'm stuck on that. I ordered this same book from presto this morning. I want to compare the 2 and see which i prefer. This is a great solution, thank you. Now, if i could figure out the flaps...

Will the image quality print the same as if I ordered directly from Aperture? No losses when printing to JPEG as single image?