move Aperture "book" to Photos

Hi Larry

Thanks for the advice. I reviewed the conversation at that link. I don't think that tricking Photos into making a book from a bunch of PDF pages is going to work for me. I looked at that carefully: the problem is that Photos doesn't generate books in the sizes that Aperture offered in the past. My current project is one that is 8.5 x 11, softcover, using a template I created (different layouts on different pages). Ordered this in the past in Aperture, no problem, good service and nice photo book, but Photos doesn't offer that size now. So my new project won't look like the old ones.

In looking at the links at that conversation, it seems that Apple made the sizing of photo books in Photos to fix that they'd offered (for the most part) in iPhoto, and didn't consider Aperture.

I'm looking at Presto: reasonable enough setup and they'll take my PDF file of the book. But they do want an extra $10 to remove their idiot logo. Grrrr...

I am certainly not expecting compensation; just trying to get a problem solved. Thanks for the explanation of policy here.

Forgive me, I'm not the one doing the contacting. I initiated the thread looking for a way to move a photo book from Aperture to Photos. The person 'thestorygirl' is the one making the offer (to me). I'm not selling anything, and I'm not a professional photographer.

I hope that clarifies, and thanks

That would fix part of the problem, and I'm pretty good at converting images from one format to another -- plenty of tools and experience. However, my previous books in Aperture were formatted as softcover, 8.5 x 11 inches (convenient for a casual coffee-table book, which is what these were). That option doesn't exist in Photos: I can get hardcover at that size, or softcover at 8 x 8 which requires me to reformat the book. With that realization moving the photo book to Photos isn't really an option for me: I might as well start over and create a new book in Photos, and just import the images. The alternative (which I increasingly prefer) is to export the book as a PDF and find a service (e.g., Presto) that will print the book from the PDF without a lot of fuss.

I must say that I am not keen on the current version of Photos to create photo books -- pretty restricted layouts. Perhaps that will improve with time.

I'm also not keen on some of the services out there: try to get Shutterfly to just take your PDF and print it. Just try. Ditto MyPublisher. They all want you to use their on-line page layout system. Hey guys, I've done the work already.

I also confess I don't understand why Apple turned off their printing service within Aperture -- the people who still use Aperture, like me, have already made it clear that we prefer that to Photos or Adobe Lightroom, at least for know. Deprecating a very useful feature isn't going to get me to move to Photos, it's going to make me find a work-around.

I see it now, thank you. I get an email every time someone replies and thought it was aimed at me. Thanks for the clarification.

Please do. I'm going to pull the trigger and try a book at Presto as well -- nothing to lose at this point.