Photo books

• PDF Fotobuch und Erstellung mit Linux oder Mac – wer kann was! 🇩🇪
  • Good Overview of different apps and online services, and which manufacturer handles PDF upload
• Stiftung Warentest 2020-08 🇩🇪

PDF creation

Scribus

• Ein Fotobuch mit Scribus frei erstellen 🇩🇪
• PhotoBookTools-for-Scribus
  • "collection of scripts and tricks intended to create photo album pages in a fast and flexible way with Scribus"
  • Instructions.pdf
  • Needs python packages tk and pillow installed (sudo pacman -S tk python-pillow)

Manufactures with PDF support

Saal digital

• Lade dein PDF im Webshop hoch 🇩🇪
• Profibereich — Fotobücher 🇩🇪
  • Layout and Dimensions, incl. Adobe InDesign template which can get imoprted into Scribus
• Minimum 26 pages
• Sale until mid-November

Manufacturer software

Pixum

• Best image print quality according to tests
• AUR package: pixum-fotowelt
  • Installs and runs fine
  • Approx. 1.1 GB total space used
  • Conflicts with cewe-fotowelt

CEWE, DM

• Cewe and DM apps are based on the same software
• Clunky perl installer, terminal-based installation
• Good ratings in print quality
• Shipping to DM shop possible
• AUR package: cewe-fotowelt
  • Installs and runs fine
  • Approx. 1 GB total space used
• AUR package: cewe-fotobuch
• AUR package: dm-fotowelt
  • Fails to install

fotobuch.de designer-3

• good ratings for software UX
• One-click grafical .run installer
• medium rating for print quality