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

I can't however create the template below which is a mirror image of LR's. The 3 small inline image didn't appear when used in LR CC. Any idea why?



Sorry if this is not the proper place to post this.

I can't however create the template below which is a mirror image of LR's. The 3 small inline image didn't appear when used in LR CC. Any idea why?

The code is as below...

DB8D5FAD-0739-4D82-BFCF-E6C6516FC021

I'm sorry if this is not the proper place to post this.

I have used LRBE several times over the last month and been pleased with it.
It allows me to create new templates and to edit old ones.
Is it perfect? No. It crashes with some layouts, but I've learned what they are and am able to use it well.
Also, it has a text window that shows the commands for each image-box in a given template. I've been using my own script code (Matlab) to generate more complicated template layouts. I can then copy-paste those into the text window and LRBE will then use those templates. Nice. Example:

<rect fill="#cccccc" stroke="#000000" x="36" y="36" width="1368" height="720" id="svg_0"/>
<rect fill="#cccccc" stroke="#000000" x="1422.36" y="360" width="360" height="396" id="svg_1"/>

I highly recommend it.
Many thanks to Slynn1324 for creating it!

After scouring the net, the only solution I found to create custom template is to use slynn1324's Lightroom Book template editor which can be found at :
https://bitbucket.org/slynn1324/light...

and it's being discussed here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1254145

Quite a rough app but I managed to create quite a few custom templates for my own use.

this is not possible if Adobe does not provide the SDK needed for the book module. If it was we would have lots of plugins for book module since a long time

The problem for potential developers of a book template plugin is that Adobe could release a new version with custom book page layouts, thus making their effort worthless. I thought that would be the case for versions 5 and 6, but I was wrong.

Agree with you. On a commercial point of view, I don't understand why other companies are not interested in developing such plugin. It will be new clients for them!

In my opinion you could easily have both. Adobe should give the user the option of creating and modifying the size and layout of book pages. The user should have the option of saving his/her layouts as templates. Book printing companies, could also develop and provide templates appropriate for their books. You don't have to choose one or the other.
This would be like other Lightroom features such as develop presets, print loayout templates, etc, where the user can change settings, the user is able to save them, and you can also find third part solutions.

It's been several years that this subject is on discussion... My personal opinion is that it should not be to Adobe to improve the book module. Instead, companies (such as Blurb or Cewe in Europe, or other photobook publisher) should develop plugins that enable us to create photobooks directly from Lightroom in the right format of the publisher. Does this sound possible?

How ugly. I transitioned from Aperture this year, and, while LR has some good tools - it is pretty poor at the traditional creative/publishing side of things. Books are a glaring example.