BookSmart will help you quickly import pictures and text into professionally designed book templates and page layouts or drag and drop your content into fully customizable pages and layouts for a look that's all your own.
BookSmart will provide an easy-to-use interface, a New Book Setup Wizard and various templates for you to choose from. All you have to do is select your book title, the author's name, full color book format (Small Square, Standard Landscape / Portrait or Large Landscape / Portrait) or black & white book.
To make it even simpliere, BookSmart will allow you to choose from a set of layouts such as Portfolio, Photo book, Wedding, Guestbook, Cookbook, Yearbook, Journal, Text and photos, Text only, Poetry, Blog to book or Blank.
BookSmart also provides users with themes for their book and each theme includes photo borders and page backgrounds in coordinating colors to make designing your book simple.
Here are some key features of "BookSmart":
Easy to Use Software:
· Cross-platform
· Drag and drop images and text
· Intuitive layout tools
· Easy image management
Professionally Designed Layouts and Styles:
· "Guide Me" feature to help get you going
· Starter layouts and themes
· Backgrounds, borders and ornaments
· Customizable, savable layouts
Import Photos, Blogs and More:
· Slurp your photos
· Slurp your blog
· iPhoto integration
Faster, Easier Layouts:
· "Snap to Grid" auto-alignment
· Instantly set an image as a page background
· Aspect ratio locking: keep images in proportion
· Auto-fit containers to images
Improved Guidance and Workflow:
· New help resources, handy and in-context
· Content preview in the Layout Editor
· Trim guidance: keep clear of the page edge
· Improved image library management
· Increased Support and Stability
· Crashes reduced more than 50%
Requirements:
· Processor: 1.3 GHz minimum, 2 GHz or faster recommended
· Memory: 512 MB minimum, 1 GB or more recommended
· Disk space to install application: 140 MB
· Open disk space required to run BookSmart: 1 GB
· Disk Space per Average Book: 100 MB
· Screen Resolution: 1024x768 minimum, 1600x1200 preferred
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Automatic two-page spreads
· Drop your photo in our new two-page template and BookSmart automatically spans your photo across two pages with full bleed
· Automatic book size change functionality
· Now you can take an existing book project, click "Change Size" and create a smaller or larger version of your book
· BookSmart automatically copies the entire contents of your book into the new book size and saves your original version so you can always order more
· We're also upgrading Blurb's standard end sheets
· Currently, Blurb's end sheets are white
· As of Wednesday, April 13, 2011, our standard end sheets across all hardcover books will be mid-grey and 30% thicker
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