Templates are a very effective tool that you can use to make your book look professionally designed. We spent part of our development season working on templates, so now they look more professional, and are easier to use than ever. Coupled with our cropping tool, you can now crop each image to fit perfectly into your template on its way in. Alternately, use the auto flow template wizard to flow templates to multiple pages, and automatically populate them with your favorite candid images.
Draven Rodriguez made national headlines this month when he released a photo he wanted as his senior portrait for his high school’s yearbook.
The image is of Rodriguez holding his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth, accompanied by blue and pink lasers. And it’s pretty unique.
He started a petition drive with the goal of getting 500 signatures. He has received 7,408 signatures on ipetitions.com.
School district spokeswoman Karen Corona told USA TODAY Network via e-mail in early September that it “would not be acceptable for the senior portrait section.” And students do not have to have an image in that section. But it could go elsewhere in the yearbook.
The high school in Schenectady, N.Y., reached a compromise last week.
His principal, Diane Wilkinson, would also appear in the photo with their animals, and the photo will appear on the principal’s page in the yearbook, the Daily Gazette said.
“The school and I have worked out a compromise we’re all happy with. It’ll be in there, just not in the senior section,” Rodriguez wrote on his petition page website.
Both animals are rescue pets. The principal’s dog’s name is Vivian, the photographer, Vincent Giordano, said, and the goal is to raise awareness of rescue animals through the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
It’s September! As usual, we like to celebrate the back to school season with a new release of our Yearbook authoring software. This development season we’ve primarily been working to keep the program up to date with the most recent operating systems, on both Windows and Mac. We’ve also been working on updating our program’s interface, making it more intuitive to use, and with fewer errors.
New Price Point:
It’s no secret that we’re competing against a growing online market. Even though the online solutions available today aren’t as reliable as our desktop solution, the convenience and marketability of them can make for a tough sale. We’re pleased to announce that we substantially lowered the license costs for our desktop software. As of this season, we’re selling individual licenses for $75 each. Folks who are signed up as our publishers receive a discount on all licenses. We hope that this makes it easier for you to market our solution to your schools.
Branding is Now Included in Publisher Renewal Fee:
We’ve always offered branding in our software, but until now we’ve been charging $500.00 for this service, on top of our standard publisher signup or renewal fee. As of this season, we will begin offering branding (Your company’s logo and contact information) to all of our publishers, included in the regular publisher signup/renewal fees. We will still be charging a premium if you need custom artwork, panels, or page sizes, but the charge for these will be much lower than previous years as well.
Edge Effects are Back:
Our customers spoke, and we listened! Edge effects (The clipping masks that can be used on portraits and candids) have been added back into the page editor, and the panel flow wizard. We still have the same draw problem where the transparent parts show up as white on the page editor, but the transparency is crisp and perfect in every PDF. Enjoy!
Major Bugs Resolved:
Last season we released a new page editor, and as is typical with new technology, we did run into a few annoying bugs. Thankfully we were able to work around these issues last season, but the better news is that we’ve resolved most of them for this season. The PDF errors (Box size, and dropping backgrounds to name a couple of the majors) have been resolved, a few of the buttons have been rearranged to make things feel more natural, and a full round of testing has gone into the major features and functions.
We are pleased to announce that our first update to Yearbooks Desktop has been published today, September 24, 2013. This is for both Mac OS and Windows – if you are looking for the Windows OS update click here.
Click the button below to begin your download.
Installation Instructions:Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns with this update.
Release Notes, Yearbooks Desktop v14.02:
-Corrected a minor registration issue, should not affect any existing licences.
-Minor cosmetic corrections to Cover Sheet form.
We are pleased to announce that our first update to Yearbooks Desktop has been published today, September 24, 2013. The update is for both Mac OS and Windows – if you are looking for the Windows OS update click here.
Click the button below to begin your download.
Installation Instructions:If you were not prompted to overwrite a file in Step 4, you may have moved the file to the wrong folder. If you are having difficulties, please feel free to contact us for further assistance.
Release Notes, Yearbooks Desktop v14.02:
-Corrected a minor registration issue, should not affect any existing licences.
-Minor cosmetic corrections to Cover Sheet form.