P: Ability to create custom book templates/sizes from scratch

I gave it a go, great for a quick page layout. In fact a lot quicker then writing the layout template code manually which I did for a bunch pages I use regularly. On the other hand, my pages can be pretty complex and include double spread layouts. You just need to learn the language of the .lua template file! So in fact you can make your own templates, it's just.... laborious, a bit complicated and takes a couple of iterations to iron out the inevitable errors!!!

In addition to wanting to be able to create my own templates for book pages, I also want Adobe and Blurb to include Lay Flat pages as an option.  

It's been 6 years since this thread began. With that said, it appears Adobe is never going to address this. My guess is they enjoy the kickbacks from Blurb too much to rock the boat and care little what their end users who wish to use other providers think.

Besides, they seem to have put all their marbles into Lightroom Mobile of late and no longer seem interested in 'Old Tech' like printed books.

When is Adobe going to address this?

Need a Mac version.

Thanks Ferdinand for the tool and the video tutorial. It looks great, but do you plan to release a Mac version ?

To see how you can create your own book page layout templates from scratch, watch my tutorial. As always, feedback is welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqw_BwkgFk

How about some updates to the Book Module. It has not had any significant updates at all. How about custom pages. How about moving the Global Options to a separate panel.

Lightroom BOOK Module: Create Custom Templates from Scratch - Blurb is affiliated with Lightroom. Blurb has an intuitive, powerful and flexible book making software called Book Wright. CC Lightroom users do have a BOOK Module linked with Blurb. However, the BOOK Module is inferior to the power and flexibility of Blurb’s Book Wright. For example, in Book Wright we can use the “Draw Tool” to add and position as many Text or Photo boxes as we want and position them in any location on a blank page layout. Users can personalize their layouts and creatively modify the fill and aspect ratio of their photos or text boxes . This provides the freedom many want when creating page layouts including overlapping images for effects. Creators are not restricted to set of templates provided in Lightroom’s BOOK Module. Having the ability to freely position and resize photo cells or text boxes in Lightroom’s BOOK Module in the same manner as Book Wright would be a huge asset. There’s an advantage to linking a Lightroom “COLLECTION” directly to Lightroom’s BOOK module. Utilizing Book Wright requires a work-around virtual “Collections” in Lightroom. A separate image folder would need to be created for Book Wright’s software to link-in. What’s worse is that Lightroom users would now have to leave Adobe’s application to utilize the more powerful external application of Book Wright. I’m certain Lightroom users would rather use a Blurb plugin or have the BOOK module updated with similar Book Wright features to keep users within Adobe’s own application. Hope this becomes a future consideration or update. Thank you