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Re: Aperture trial versions

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In article <c4i108FhnijU1@mid.individual.net>, Steve Hodgson
<hamrun@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2014-08-07 02:52:02 +0000, nospam said:
> 
> > In article <060820141954405120%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >>> If you explain what your underlying requirements are then other people
> >>> may suggest alternative ways of them being met. If you ask for help,
> >>> people will try and be helpful and this may include trying to work out
> >>> what you really need and offering alternative suggestions.
> >> 
> >> Perhaps, but my point is that, prima facie, O.P. Steve Hodgson asked
> >> where he could download a trial version of Aperture, and explained that
> >> he understood that it was being discontinued, but that he wanted
> >> Aperture for "one specific purpose."
> >> 
> >> That sounds to me like a man who has done his homework and knows what
> >> he wants, and does not need to have his motives questioned and to be
> >> told that he should try a different product. Instead, he deserves a
> >> straightforward reply or none at all (which is what I gave him, because
> >> I didn't know the answer to his question).
> > 
> > maybe, but there isn't a trial anymore, so it would help to know what
> > that one specific purpose is so a solution can be found.
> 
> I have replied to that elsewhere. I have a colleague at work who wishes 
> to create a photo book using the photos he has stored in iPhoto. BUT he 
> also needs to be able to edit the aspect ration of the 'frames'. 
> Aperture will do this and iPhoto will not.

With iPhoto's Crop tool you can set the ratio to what ever you want.
The ratio of the pictures in most Apple photo books are set by the
number of photographs on a page, and whether you select both horizontal
and/or vertical frames.

> 
> I appreciate there are other photo book services available but I 
> believe he is keen to go through Apple for this and who am I to argue?

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Aperture trial versions Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 17:02 +0000
  Re: Aperture trial versions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-05 17:16 +0000
    Re: Aperture trial versions Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 21:10 +0100
      Re: Aperture trial versions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-05 21:41 +0000
  Re: Aperture trial versions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-05 13:16 -0400
  Re: Aperture trial versions Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-08-05 18:21 -0700
    Re: Aperture trial versions Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-06 12:11 -0400
      Re: Aperture trial versions android <here@there.was> - 2014-08-06 18:29 +0200
        Re: Aperture trial versions Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-06 19:41 -0400
          Re: Aperture trial versions android <here@there.was> - 2014-08-07 16:26 +0200
      Re: Aperture trial versions John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-08-06 16:08 -0700
      Re: Aperture trial versions {$PW$}@womar.co.uk (Paul Womar) - 2014-08-07 00:08 +0100
        Re: Aperture trial versions Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-06 19:54 -0400
          Re: Aperture trial versions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-06 22:52 -0400
            Re: Aperture trial versions Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> - 2014-08-07 20:05 +0100
              Re: Aperture trial versions <henry@att.net> - 2014-08-07 12:19 -0700
                Re: Aperture trial versions John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-08-07 17:23 -0700
                Re: Aperture trial versions Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 17:18 +0100
                Re: Aperture trial versions John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-08-08 17:00 -0700
      Re: Aperture trial versions Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-08-06 17:36 -0700

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