Nov 23, 2007

Not to tread on any toes...

When you design albums, you're dancing with a partner, your vendor. It doesn't work when they tread on your toes. Or vice versa.

That's why we've always stressed the importance of integrating with suppliers. And why we enable vendors to switch functions off in Remix where they're not right for their product.

For example, some testers have asked on DWF why Queensberry has disabled aperture resizing by "dragging from the corner" in matted albums.

(Many traditional vendors will need to turn custom design off entirely - ie make PJ drag-and-drop only. In the same way, many studios will want to use drag-and-drop templates for productivity reasons.)

Understand it's not us that makes such decisions, it's the vendors (read QBY's reasons here). But understand also the fundamental reason: that suppliers make real books (and labs make real prints), and the systems only work if you (and your software) understand them.

Having said that, we're about problem solving and better outcomes. Watch this space.

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