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Introduction

BookSmart is a bookmaking application developed by Blurb, Inc. It allows users to design and publish books. Although Blurb do not offer or support a Linux version of BookSmart, it is a Java application which will run on Linux with a bit of fiddling. Website: http://www.blurb.com/

Installation Instructions

These instructions are heavily based on the hard work done by Blurb forum member Cedric Lecuret. His original instructions are here.

Download and mount install disc

Firstly, download the latest version of BookSmart from here. Make sure you get the Mac version, not the Windows version. Alternatively, download it from the command line. The following will get v2.5.1, which may not be the latest version so check first: wget http://downloads.blurb.com/booksmart/BookSmart_2.5.1.dmg Now install some software to convert the DMG file into something that Linux can mount, such as dmg2img. Follow these DMG2IMG instructions. Then, convert the file using: dmg2img BookSmart_2.5.1.dmg Next mount the disc image (Karmic seems to have HFS module loaded by default. If not, "sudo modprobe hfsplus"):

sudo mkdir /macbooksmart
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o loop BookSmart_2.5.1.img /macbooksmart

Install files

Install the BookSmart files:

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/booksmart/
sudo cp -r /macbooksmart/BookSmart.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/ /usr/lib/booksmart/
sudo cp -r /macbooksmart/BookSmart.app/Contents/Resources/Java/resources/ /usr/lib/booksmart/ 

The 2.5.1 Mac version of BookSmart seems to run okay under Java 1.6 - previous versions needed 1.5. Make sure 1.6 is installed: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

Create startup script

Create a script that can start BookSmart:

sudo echo '#! /bin/sh
cd /usr/lib/booksmart
classpath=""

# Build classpath with all jars in the lib directory
for jar in lib/*.jar
do
classpath=$classpath:$jar
done

java -Xincgc -ea -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -classpath $classpath com.blurb.booksmart.application.BookSmart

exit $?
' > $HOME/booksmart.sh
sudo mv $HOME/booksmart.sh /usr/lib/booksmart/booksmart.sh
sudo chmod a+x /usr/lib/booksmart/booksmart.sh

Set up menu

Finally, create a menu item to run BookSmart. Right-click on the Applications menu and select Edit Menus. Add a new entry under the Graphics menu called BookSmart which runs the following command: /usr/lib/booksmart/booksmart.sh

Tidying up

You can now tidy up the files used during installation:

sudo umount /macbooksmart
sudo rmdir /macbooksmart
rm BookSmart_2.5.1.*

Getting Started With BookSmart

You can now run BookSmart by selecting Applications > Graphics > BookSmart from the menu.

Known Issues

The thumbnails for themes for the New Book wizard are missing/misnamed.

NB

Booksmart requires write access to its running directory (/usr/lib/booksmart in this case) for writing a log file... By default regular users don't have write access to /usr/lib/. Alternatively, on a single user workstation, ~/booksmart can be used instead of /usr/lib/booksmart/.