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slug420
11-15-2007, 11:12 AM
not sure if the two of these are connected and I have been in touch with the mypublisher support staff on this but I also wanted to poll the mac community a little.

I am having problems uploading a 100pg book. I complete the book try to order and it optimizes all of my images and then uploads all of my images, I go to the confirmation screen and even get a confirmation email...have done this 3 times now....but according to MP they are not receiving the book or it looks like there is a corrupted image in the book.

Has anyone else run into this?

The only thing that I can see that might be wrong is my book will not allow me to layout the cover. I go to the cover but instead of having a cover with a picture window that I can put an image in it *looks* like a full bleed layout page with nothing on it. I cannot add an image to it or change the page layout. When I try to change some of the cover settings it tells me that cover settings will be configured during checkout (which I assume is referring to choosing color/material). I have tried changing from a windowed cover to a cover with a book jacket and then back again to see if this helps but so far it has not.

I am not sure if this is a problem or not and if it is, i dont know how to fix it.

I also tried exporting the book and then importing it to 2,2 running on windows....but it woudlnt import, said I had a non-jpg formatted image (which I dont). Maybe this is referring to the corrupted image that is preventing the upload and/or the messed up cover.

I am going to try downloading bookmaker again and reinstalling it over the current installation as suggested by MP support but im not sure whether or not this is going to cause me to lose all of my currently saved books (since it doesnt seem to create actual files anywhere for saved books).

Any ideas?

mypublisher
11-15-2007, 11:17 AM
Were you using a MAC or a PC??

slug420
11-15-2007, 11:24 AM
everything I described here was using BM 2.1 on a mac

I am running XP in parallels (and have other PCs) which is how I was able to try importing the exported book into 2,2 on windows but this book was created in (and is currently 'stuck' in) OSX.

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mypublisher
11-15-2007, 03:41 PM
I have not heard of that issue for MAC. That is definitely an odd one. What happens if you do a "File" Save As and try with a different book?

slug420
11-15-2007, 03:54 PM
i am pretty sure that if I create a new book it has a cover - not 100% though, I will check tonight

I do know that if I do a saveas and close the app and open a different book and then open the newly named messed up book....it is still messed up.

slug420
11-15-2007, 05:18 PM
links to screenshots of the "cant layout cover" problem

http://www.nepoc.org/Picturescreen1.jpg
http://www.nepoc.org/Picturescreen2.jpg

mypublisher
11-16-2007, 10:01 AM
Thanks for those screen shots. It looks almost as if your cover is "missing". What happens if you go through those start book screens again. The book size & style button? The first screen shot it looks like you have a Book Jacket book, but if you cannot drag an image in - it seems as if it is locked somehow. I need to send this onto our developer to further investigate. I have not seen this problem before.

Sincerely,
MyPublisher

slug420
11-16-2007, 10:09 AM
I have tried everything I can think of to "jump start" the book into making the cover work.

I have changed it 32092 times to a deluxe book back to a classic book to a dust jacket book to a windowed cover etc etc...cant seem to get it to change...

mypublisher
11-16-2007, 04:48 PM
What happens when you start a new book? Is it still stuck?

slug420
11-16-2007, 05:08 PM
new books are ok

slug420
11-16-2007, 05:09 PM
at some point this book was ok also because when i first started the book I put a picture for the cover window

pixelpushr
01-24-2008, 07:28 PM
I have the same problem and haven't found a solution yet.

slug420
01-24-2008, 07:41 PM
FYI I never got a solution, I manually rebuilt my book in windows (took forEVER but I only messed up on one picture)

worked like a dream with the windows software

mypublisher
01-25-2008, 09:25 AM
Hello - I am sorry but at this time we have this documented as a bug and are planning a new release of the MAC client soon. Hopefully this bug fix will be included.

Sincerely,
MyPublisher