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Post by potet on Sept 12, 2020 21:24:36 GMT
... The disappearance of the cover wizard is the hardest blow I have received so far. The new cover system is vastly inferior to the Lulu cover wizard I was used to. I now suspect the creator of the wizard left Lulu for whatever reason, and nobody else has been able emulate him or to do the same, because I just can't imagine any POD company abandoning such a great tool, and not creating a new version taking into account the constraints of the current technology. Having edited/published numerous books for my local history society and also under my own name, I was a great fan of the Lulu cover wizard. It provided numerous templates and unlimited colour options. There were certain usability issues but, once one had grappled with them, every cover (front & back) in our particular books came out superbly. There is even a new snag. The wizard automatically adjusted the existing cover to the new edition even if the new number of pages was significantly larger. With the new system, we have to create and upload a new cover if the number of pages has changed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 3:35:22 GMT
Yes I'm another fan of Lulu's cover wizard. So easy to use. sigh
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Post by potet on Sept 14, 2020 22:19:00 GMT
Carol, the Lulu clerk in charge of my case, e-mailed me this evening (2020-09-14) that I could have my previous cover. She joined a PDF of the cover to make sure we were talking about the same thing. It was exactly the one I had designed for all the editions of this book of mine. Naturally I thanked her profusely. Her competence and will to help greatly offset all the terrible shortcomings of the new Lulu platform.
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