P: Ability to export pages as JPEGs from Book Module in LR4

The following is copied from a thread on the LR4 beta forum I made concerning the issue and sums up my thoughts on the issue:

As I indicated earlier, I can't discount the reasoning for preferring PDF over jpeg when it comes to rendering text ... I would very much prefer to hand off a single multi-page file rather than dozens of individual jpegs ... however ... Most of the wedding and portrait photographers I am acquainted with use extremely small amounts of text in their books/albums ... if they use text at all ...

In 2011, I created nearly 200 books ... I don't think any of them had more than a dozen words used in each ... mostly titles, dates and info on the cover ... so rendering text, for many users is really a secondary issue. It's primarily about the images ...

Being forced to convert an exported PDF to jpeg adding another step to the workflow seems extremely redundent ... and the resulting jpegs would be at the whim of the chosen converter ... It would seem to me that this step can be done ... and done well ... right within LR ...

I support the issue of convincing book printers that PDF files are in the best interest for all concerned ... but that isn't going to occur overnight ... it would be quite convenient, and reasonable to have the option of a jpeg output in the interim ...

Yes - the reason for existence of the Book module IMO is that I finally can get rid of printing agency proprietary software.
Their usual business model forced you to decide for one of them before you were designing your book, and afterwards you are hooked to them unless you want to redo the design again in the software of a competitor.
Give us real freedom to select the printer with the best offer at the given time !

Jpgs, jpg2ks or pngs too. Good idea.

I agree... a JPEG export as in the Print Module would be a very useful option.

I agree. I now use Preview on the Mac (or PSCS5) to get tiffs or jpegs which is a rediculous runaround