General ⇒ Looking for a LaTeX photobook template

[anta40]

I and several photography enthusiasts are working on a hobby (non-commercial) project, and we decide to make a photobook. Currently, we use Adobe InDesign for that goal. Yet somehow I'm curious to build the book myself using LaTeX.

A quick Google search pointed me to: LATEX TEMPLATES FOR POD PUBLISHING WITH BLURB.COM. I'm on Windows (already have MSYS & TexLive installed). After hours messing with Makefile, still cannot build the PDF.

Maybe somebody here have another easy-to-build templates?

[Johannes_B]

So you are asking for another template (chances are, there are none, the concept of a LaTeX template is insanely messy); you are not asking how to get your current template to work?

Makefile stuff on Windows is off-topic here, and i don't have windows, but i'm happy to try. But with the current information, the question cannot be answered. By the way, you never mess with a Makefile, if you do, it will mess with you.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Does it matter how photos are arranged? (all full page, or kind of placed in some way...) Will there be some text?

How should it be possible that there's a photobook template, as there's a million ways to design a book with images.

You could collect ideas of image placement and design pages, visually. Somebody might come up with a framework for such pages. Such as a page with circular placement, rectangular placement, captions below or on the right, etc.

Stefan

[anta40]

Ah, I forgot the tell you the template I'm actually editing is available on this page.
It's inspired by the template linked on the first post.

@Johannes_B
I'm not at home. Will upload my modifications as soon as I get home.

@Stefan_K
Of course I'll prefer customizable photos and text layout. But only being able to display the images on the center of the paper, with text below the photos is enough for me. Anyway, this is the example of the PDF, to give you an idea.

[anta40]

Hello all,

Sorry for the late reply.

Using the same template linked in my first post, I still couldn't built the PDF. And no, I didn't touch the Makefile

If I understand the Makefile properly, a "make book-web" or "make book-blurb" is sufficient for my case. But running them doesn't produce the PDF expected:

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CSL-NB-064@CSL-NB-068 /C/Users/CSL-NB-064/Desktop/Photobook Templates/blurb
$ make book-web
xelatex book-web.tex

CSL-NB-064@CSL-NB-068 /C/Users/CSL-NB-064/Desktop/Photobook Templates/blurb
$ make book-blurb
xelatex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -q -E -V 3" book-blurb.tex
xelatex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -q -E -V 3" cover-blurb.tex

If someone can built the PDF using this template, let me know