CD booklet maker app besides CD-ROM Bookmaker?

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The standard freeware one recommended here just isn't adequate
(because you just enter names of text files). Anyone know of one
where we can get the same types of results but that allows at least
some sort of preview/editing capability? TIA.
 
fitwell said:
The standard freeware one recommended here just isn't adequate
(because you just enter names of text files). Anyone know of one
where we can get the same types of results but that allows at least
some sort of preview/editing capability? TIA.
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What's the URL for CD-ROM Bookmaker? I googled and didn't find it

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What's the URL for CD-ROM Bookmaker? I googled and didn't find it
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Hi, it's not easy to find, for sure. I, unfortunately, don't seem to
have done my usual practice of saving source documentation with this
one, unless they're on another CD, but I googled for the zip file
itself to find dl sites.

It's a deceptively-named program. The name CDROM Bookmaker is what is
in the title bar itself, but I just saw that the readme file calls it
CD-book (go figure). So found it in several spots, but here are two:

http://www.spiritone.com/~enegus/index.shtml

but also on those handy SAC pages. It seems that whenever a homepage
is gone but I have the zip file name, I find a copy of freeware here:
http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utiltext4.html

CD-book or CDROM Bookmaker is a printing device only and have to say
that it doesn't do a good job.

I printed a booklet last week from 6 text pages or so and it messed up
the numbering. Also pages that would print above what corresponds to
one page in CD-book were printed out of sequence. Also, the page
numbering was off since the program should skip pages so that when the
booklet is stapled together the numbering then is in order. It didn't
even make consistent mistakes, just misnumbered and cut off titles.
There were no glaring gaps in the text files at all just a few of hard
returns between "stanzas", or whatever paragraph breaks are called in
lyrics, and between title and body of song. I have absolutely _no_
idea why it did that at all since errors weren't consistent so
couldn't determine what it didn't like.

I've never been able to include lyrics for a burned CD in booklet form
but I did find a generic paper entry in a non-freeware multimedia
label program I have that allowed me to get around this while testing
yesterday. But trying to make a booklet this way was extremely
tedious as I had to manually do everything to make the booklet.

I'm continuing the search but if anyone comes across something good,
pls advise.

Good luck!
 
fitwell said:
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I've never been able to include lyrics for a burned CD in booklet form
but I did find a generic paper entry in a non-freeware multimedia
label program I have that allowed me to get around this while testing
yesterday. But trying to make a booklet this way was extremely
tedious as I had to manually do everything to make the booklet.
I'm continuing the search but if anyone comes across something good,
pls advise. Good luck!
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If you're running OpenOffice.org, you might look to see if that has a
booklet feature. You might be able to size the pages to fit a jewel case.

I use a commercial software program (which will remain unamed) to do
this kind of thing, so I'm assuming that OO.O should be able to do it
as well. Still, it would be nice if there was something smaller that
could do what you need.

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fitwell said:
I'm continuing the search but if anyone comes across something good,
pls advise.
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this looks promising - I haven't found the time to try it yet . . .

www.spacejock.com

The latest version of yBook includes a new print engine, which allows
you to print books or booklets on single sided or duplexing printers.

Runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and Linux (using Wine)

http://members.iinet.net.au/~simonh/Programs/ybkfull.exe


Susan
 
this looks promising - I haven't found the time to try it yet . . .

www.spacejock.com

The latest version of yBook includes a new print engine, which allows
you to print books or booklets on single sided or duplexing printers.

Runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and Linux (using Wine)

http://members.iinet.net.au/~simonh/Programs/ybkfull.exe
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(my new ISPs newsserver seems to be eating the posts somewhere along
the way. If this has already appeared, pls ignore a duplicate. I
never recvd it so I'm waiting for possible answers to a msg
potentially recvd by no-one. <sigh>. Tx! <g>.)

Well, the ybook from the above page (and the direct dl link above),
sounded promising but it actually didn't come close to doing the job.

The first problem is that it isn't configured to be a CD booklet maker
app, so the configuration on each page, double-sided, isn't something
that it can handle. Picture how a CD booklet must be printed. Both
sides of the sheet must fit much less than an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of
paper and must print border and fold lines. Secondly, it must number
the pages a certain way. When the sheets come out of the printer,
they in fact look like they'll be out of sequence, but when you cut
out the sheets (and a proper program for this will print both sides of
the sheet so that when one cuts ONE along the lines of one side,
they'll coincide with the flip side), and then staple together,
they'll flip correctly in sequence like a paperback or other book.

ybook also will not compress the font so that the booklets will
require sheets and sheets. Also, a naggy thing, but the margins in
ybook are not configuragle to different units of measure. So if one
wants inches, too bad, so sad, it seems. Only one unit of measure
available in ybook.

It was a good exercise. I didn't think it would work, but it was
certainly worth a try.

Thanks.
 
fitwell said:
(my new ISPs newsserver seems to be eating the posts somewhere along
the way. If this has already appeared, pls ignore a duplicate. I
never recvd it so I'm waiting for possible answers to a msg
potentially recvd by no-one. <sigh>. Tx! <g>.)

Well, the ybook from the above page (and the direct dl link above),
sounded promising but it actually didn't come close to doing the job.

The first problem is that it isn't configured to be a CD booklet maker
app, so the configuration on each page, double-sided, isn't something
that it can handle. Picture how a CD booklet must be printed. Both
sides of the sheet must fit much less than an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of
paper and must print border and fold lines. Secondly, it must number
the pages a certain way. When the sheets come out of the printer,
they in fact look like they'll be out of sequence, but when you cut
out the sheets (and a proper program for this will print both sides of
the sheet so that when one cuts ONE along the lines of one side,
they'll coincide with the flip side), and then staple together,
they'll flip correctly in sequence like a paperback or other book.

ybook also will not compress the font so that the booklets will
require sheets and sheets. Also, a naggy thing, but the margins in
ybook are not configuragle to different units of measure. So if one
wants inches, too bad, so sad, it seems. Only one unit of measure
available in ybook.

It was a good exercise. I didn't think it would work, but it was
certainly worth a try.

Thanks.
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There's a similar problem here with the ISP. Otherwise, I
cannot comment further. I don't get all the posts and
sometimes get them late...ALL AT ONCE! Heh, tech-NO-log-y!

Helen
 
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(my new ISPs newsserver seems to be eating the posts somewhere along
the way. If this has already appeared, pls ignore a duplicate. I
never recvd it so I'm waiting for possible answers to a msg
potentially recvd by no-one. <sigh>. Tx! <g>.)
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[snip]

There's a similar problem here with the ISP. Otherwise, I
cannot comment further. I don't get all the posts and
sometimes get them late...ALL AT ONCE! Heh, tech-NO-log-y!

Helen
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Helen, hi! Yes, it's very odd. My other ISP's newsserver was much
more reliable. This one was great then all of a sudden has acted up
in last few days something awful. I posted the msg above originally
several days ago and it seems to never have appeared.

Tx.

************
p.s., _still_ looking for a CD-ROM booklet-maker solution. Esp. since
yesterday found all the lyrics on the net for an album I bought a
couple of years ago by a French-Canadian singer called Mario Pelchat.
It would be just so neat if I could make a booklet with all the lyrics
to put into the CD.

yBook didn't work and there are too many bugs in CD-Book (aka as
CD-ROM Bookmaker).

Cheers!
 
Here's one - mentions only XP and 2000 though. It has a
screen shot.
-- This is the site description:

CdCoverCreator is a powerful tool to easily create audio CD
covers, inlays, labels and booklets. Design time for your
covers is as short as possible.
The track lengths are read from the audio CD, titles can be
retrieved via CDDB from the internet. For your own
compilations use Match&Merge to gather the track titles from
the original CDs.
Use color gradients or images as backgrounds together with
transparent textures.
CdCoverCreator offers you an integrated search engine for CD
covers on the internet. (Please note that the use of covers of
CDs you do not possess is illegal.)
A special feature of CdCoverCreator: create your own CD
booklets, e.g. with song lyrics that can be downloaded with
the integrated Lyrics Browser.
Style templates define the basic layout of a cover, which,
however, can be adjusted to your needs. CdCoverCreator ships
with a couple of pre-defined style templates, and of course
CdCoverCreator allows you to create your own ones.
Plenty of label and cover formats are supported. The measures
can easily be adjusted.
http://www.our-class.net/mmchristen/ccc.php
 
Here's one - mentions only XP and 2000 though. It has a
screen shot.
-- This is the site description:

CdCoverCreator is a powerful tool to easily create audio CD
covers, inlays, labels and booklets. Design time for your
covers is as short as possible.
The track lengths are read from the audio CD, titles can be
retrieved via CDDB from the internet. For your own
compilations use Match&Merge to gather the track titles from
the original CDs.
Use color gradients or images as backgrounds together with
transparent textures.
CdCoverCreator offers you an integrated search engine for CD
covers on the internet. (Please note that the use of covers of
CDs you do not possess is illegal.)
A special feature of CdCoverCreator: create your own CD
booklets, e.g. with song lyrics that can be downloaded with
the integrated Lyrics Browser.
Style templates define the basic layout of a cover, which,
however, can be adjusted to your needs. CdCoverCreator ships
with a couple of pre-defined style templates, and of course
CdCoverCreator allows you to create your own ones.
Plenty of label and cover formats are supported. The measures
can easily be adjusted.
http://www.our-class.net/mmchristen/ccc.php
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Darn. <sigh> Great for other people, but here is blurb for other
OSs:

"Operating System: Window™ 2000, Windows™ XP
Note: CdCoverCreator may not work correctly or even crash on
operating systems other than the above listed. Use at your own risk."

Doesn't sound like something I want to have. Darn, darn, darn.

Thanks for the tip. Appreciate it. Maybe one day will be able to
upgrade.
 
fitwell said:
Darn. <sigh> Great for other people, but here is blurb for other
OSs:

"Operating System: WindowT 2000, WindowsT XP
Note: CdCoverCreator may not work correctly or even crash on
operating systems other than the above listed. Use at your own risk."

Doesn't sound like something I want to have. Darn, darn, darn.

Thanks for the tip. Appreciate it. Maybe one day will be able to
upgrade.
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Yeah, me too. I saw the note about 'other OS's' after sending
the post.
I thought it was nice too, but not for my OS. Oh well, it is
my under-standing that Win98/SE is the most widely used
worldwide. Perhaps a note to the writer would be helpful?
I've thought about that, but cd booklets isn't high on my
priority list, so I probably won't. Hope you find something.
This one seemed to fit the bill except for the OS. But who
knows, it might even work on 98/SE? I hope you find one. If
I run across something, I'll post it. BTW, what OS are you
using?

Helen
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fitwell said:
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This one seemed to fit the bill except for the OS. But who
knows, it might even work on 98/SE? I hope you find one. If
I run across something, I'll post it. BTW, what OS are you
using?
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You guessed it, Helen, Win98SE. <sigh> Well, may one day give it a
try, who know, anyway. I've had time to think. But can't at the
moment. And don't want to risk my installation. Already it's buggy
and had to do an overlay install. Too much still left to burn before
a complete one. If I try it, will probably do so on a clean C drive.

Thanks!
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