Re: Aperture trial versions

From	John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Aperture trial versions
Date	2014-08-08 17:00 -0700
Organization	Sept. all the time
Message-ID	<ls3oam$9a0$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <060820142252024142%nospam@nospam.invalid> <c4i108FhnijU1@mid.individual.net> <070820141219592064%henry@att.net> <ls15am$749$1@dont-email.me> <c4kbjjF21lpU1@mid.individual.net>

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On 8/8/14   PDT, 9:18 AM, Steve Hodgson wrote:
> On 2014-08-08 00:23:50 +0000, John McWilliams said:
>
>> On 8/7/14   PDT, 12:19 PM, henry@att.net wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> My point exactly, Davoud. Q.E.D.
>
> No, very different. The reference to iPhoto's crop tool is referring to
> a separate operation on the photo in iPhoto to crop the photo. Aperture
> allow the frame used within the book to be edited to whatever aspect
> ratio is required. iPhoto books don't have the same sort of granularity.
>
> I *know* there are lots of different ways to skin this particularly cat,
> I'm just trying to find out if it's possible to use the application my
> colleague asked my advice about.

Sorry it didn't do what you want. But I think the point about inquiring 
what is the OP's ultimate goal stands.

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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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