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New Layout Engine

We’ve just released a major update to our layout engine for blogbooks. This is really cool stuff and while most of it is under the hood, we’d like to share with you the visible improvements:

  • European languages now have much better support when using the Latin script. That means, also these German Umlauts, French accents, Scandinavian special characters, etc… are now fully supported.
  • Non-latin scripts like Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic or Thai are also supported. Chinese and Japanese characters are not stable, though. Please let us know how this works for you.
  • We’ve also changed the fonts used for the books to something more pleasing (to our taste). If there is interest, we can make fonts an option.

Overall, the whole process should be more stable as well. We’re working hard to get this bug free. If your book has zero pages, please get in touch with our support team and we’ll try to get it fixed.

Published August 8, 2011 by feedfabrik
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Feedfabrik goes Brazil!

We’re shipping to Brazil now and our first Brazilian customer, blogger Sandrea, has written a review about our bookfabrik service. If you speak Portuguese head over to her blog.

She’s even included a link to her blogbook at the bottom of her post.

 

Published August 4, 2011 by feedfabrik
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tumblr update

We’ve just updated the bookfabrik to work with the new tumblr API.

The folks at tumblr really did a great job with their new API. One big advantage is the OAuth authentication scheme. We’ll spare you the technical details, but in essence, it means that you no longer have to enter your password on our site. Instead, you simply click the “create my book” button and we’ll redirect you to tumblr. At tumblr, you can then grant us access to your blog and tumblr will redirect you back to your site. The login is then automatic and much more secure.

tumblr also changed the way the data of your blog is transmitted between the tumblr servers and us. The new approach looks really well designed and we’re sure that it is more stable than in the past.

So go ahead and give it a try – and tell us how you like it.

Published July 30, 2011 by feedfabrik
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Embed your blogbook on your website

We’re proud to announce our latest feature: now it is possible to embed your blogbook on any website. You can grab a bit of code from the desk interface once you see your book and then stick that code right into your webpage or your blog post. A little box will show up and present your book as a flipbook, just like the one below (which is actually the blogbook of this blog up to today).

For those of you who are a bit more into coding, you can adjust the width and the height of the box to make it bigger or smaller by tweaking the numbers in the copied HTML.

Your visitors can not only admire your book but also click on the link at the lower left corner to be take right to the Feedfabrik site to a full view of the book and the opportunity to download the free print proof file or buy a PDF or printed book.

Let us know how you like this :-)

 

Published July 19, 2011 by feedfabrik
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Change title and author of book

You’ve asked for it (many times) and finally we got it: When you create your blogbook or picbook at bookfabrik you can now change the author or title of the book to your liking.

Before, the system would always take title and author from the source data, e.g. from your blog. It still does that as a suggestion. However, if you feel like changing the title, e.g. because you’re doing annual volumes and would like to put the year on the cover, then you can do that now. Once you’ve connected with your blog or picture site and created your book, click on the Text Settings tab on the left (the big T) and you find the fields to change the text.

Have fun!

Published July 9, 2011 by feedfabrik
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norske blog bøker

Norwegian blogger Hans-Petter was so kind to review our blogbook service on his blog. He has some great illustrations on how to use the blogbook application and also shows you the print proof PDF file of his book. If you speak Norwegian, hop over and take a look. If not, hop over anyway and admire his blog!

Thanks Hans-Petter!

Published July 8, 2011 by feedfabrik
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WordPress Printing Plugin updated

We’ve just updated the printing plugin for WordPress to version 1.8. You can download the plugin as usual directly from WordPress.org or update from the dashboard of your blog. All details can be found on our special WordPress plugin page, but in short, the changes are the following:

  • Introduce encrypted communication for token exchange
  • Introduce direct link to customer care
  • Improve stability
  • Improve compatibility with WordPress 3.2
  • Provide option to like us on Facebook

Please let us know how this works for you – and if you like the plugin, please like us on Facebook or rate us on WordPress.org.

Published July 6, 2011 by feedfabrik
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Saudações a Portugal e Brasil

Brasilian blogger Sandrea has written a review of Bookfabrik on her blog Sandrea’s BiblioPage: Biblioteconomia, Ciência da Informação e Internet. She has helped us to improve the Portuguese typesetting and recognition of the special Portuguese characters. Thanks, Sandrea!

If you discover that something doesn’t work for you in our books, please let us know and we try our best to fix it! We’re here to help.

Published July 4, 2011 by feedfabrik
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We’re working on Instagram books

We’ve discovered a bug in our instagram books that prevents the correct pictures from being included in your book under certain circumstances. As soon as we found a fix, we’ll let you know. Please stay tuned.

Published July 2, 2011 by feedfabrik
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Instagram and Picplz books

We’re happy to announce two new products at Feedfabrik: Instagram books and Picplz books.

Instagram and Picplz are two popular mobile apps that allow users to make cool snaps on the go and give them a retro look by applying a selection of filters. Instagram right now is exclusive on the iPhone but Picplz can be used on iPhone and Android as well. According to a recent article on Mashable, Instagram by now features over 100 Million photos of 5 Million users and is still growing like crazy.

If you’re using one of these apps you can now create picture books from your photos using our simple bookfabrik application. Go to the start page and select the PICS tab as shown below.

The choose your source and click the “CREATE MY BOOK” button on the right. Both, Instagram and Picplz will ask for authentication first but then the book is created automatically. You can then share your book with friends by sending them the URL link to the flipbook view or even better, order a printed copy for your coffee table.

Please let us know how you like the books and what features you would like to see. This is still in beta stage and we’re happy to integrate your input and thoughts. Have fun!

Published June 22, 2011 by feedfabrik
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