Book Designer Changelog

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Below are recent updates to our award winning Book Designer online software.

Release 3.5

All new Calendar support! Calendar products are now directly supported in the Designer and PDF upload. Layout and Preview views now show proper top-n-bottom orientation for a flip calendar.
New "Add Multiple Pages" under the "Arrange Pages" tool is a fast way to add dozens of pages to your book.

Dropped images are now immediately marked as used in the book
Dropzone's have greatly improved UI for indicating crop adjustment or to drop a new image

Our all new Multi-Uploader allows you to select many files at once for upload with a single click! Just click "Upload Files" when editing your book or card.
You can now upload images for Dust Cover Flaps - both inner front and inner back
The PDF Wizard now has a magical checkbox for iPhoto PDF uploads.
Improved Template Creator UI to be consistent, improved uploading, new drop zone images

All new streamlined user interface that greatly improves ease of use and is gorgeous to see!
Photo drawer checkbox for images used in book, additionally gray out
New Drop Zone images for Designer Templates
Improved feedback for all dialogs and panels that fetch data from server.
Edit Public Preview button now available on Flip Preview for product owner.
Over 75 fonts now available to use in drag and drop text editing!

Instant Shipping Quotes available for all products.
All new "Green Box" interface for cover and webstore editing makes these steps much easier to use.
All new "Layout Preview" with instant zoom, improved Flash-less flip preview.
Improved Flickr integration - no more synchronized, instant image browsing and drag & drop.

Auto-Fit Template Pages now available for all sizes! Drop unlimited number of images onto a page and our special algorithms will arrange the images for the best fit.
Template Pages now have notes to add individual instructions
Improved Template Usage statistics for designers including sorting pages by usage, proportional bar graphs of usage, and listing of statistics for all templates by a user (see link on Profile Page)
New Dropzone Layers when Creating Book Designer Templates so you can add dropzones above or below the uploaded PNG file.
New cover guides on the Book Binding and Covers for designers
Condensed, unified header for Book Designer, Book Machine, and PDF Wizard
Improve dashboard products listing: direct link to Step 1 using the app icon (Designer, BookMachine, PDF Wizard); list PDF dimensions
Add 11x8.5 Dust Jacket Hard Cover, Premium Photo Printing
Add Premium Products for Square and Landscape books

Support for "themes" when creating a template. Every template is assigned one core theme e.g. "Scrapbooking"
Ability to filter results in template browser by designer, price, and theme
Internal Designer template browser made identical to external browser
Interactive filters on main shop pages for browsing templates
View pages in a large, 72 DPI lightbox preview prior to creating a book
Calendar pagination now begins on the left, so top/bottom appear as side-by-side pairs.
Improve Drag-n-Drop reordering so it behaves well on all browsers

Template browser when creating books.
Rollover thumbnails to view the finer details of your draggable images.
Gallery Navigation through the photodrawer with breadcrumbs
Interface overhaul
Warn on low image DPI to prevent unsatisfactory print quality and on use of the same image multiple times in the same book to prevent mistakes
Upload your PNG quick page templates directly to the book designer and draw your own dropzones using our new toolset
New WYSWIG Caption Editor ( ckeditor )