Web AND Printed albums ?

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I'm looking for a solution to present my albums. Ideally I would like to build them for both web and print presentations. And not doubling the amount of work that this would require.

I find most sites that propose printing services have terrible software for authoring the books. Think 1990 technology... Slow. Requires software on the PC like Flash or Java or proprietary. Unintuitive.

I found some web software that make it much more user friendly but so far what I found is only for output on the web and the result can't be printed.

Am I dreaming or are there things that actually exist these days to help with that?

 

[Mark G]

Have you looked at smartalbums?

 

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Have you looked at smartalbums?

Thanks for the tip. No I hadn't found about them yet. I guess you're referring to Pixellu's smartalbums. I quickly looked at their web site now but will not try it though, unless I'm mistaken:

1. looks like the web presentation part could be covered by the "cloud proofing" thing (but that works only on mac allegedly).
   
2. the software itself is available on Windows & Mac (which doesn't help with my 100% Linux workflow).
   
3. the whole thing relies on a partnership with printing companies. I would need to check if one of their partners is local enough to me (Belgium) to have reasonable shipping costs.

To clarify my quest: I would like to share series of photos (which I called albums) to family, friends, clients and others on the web without imposing specific software or OS. I understand that this might not be print proofing quality but that's not what I'm looking for. Basically I want to build web albums, share them through some hosting service, and then have the option to print them (possibly this step could involve a little more work to reformat the page layout but not re-uploading all photos and/or retyping all text).