Aperture Special Report: No extra-.Mac Web publishing

MacFixIt reader Brett Wickens notes a serious limitations in Aperture: the inability to directly publish albums or contact sheets to personal servers (limited only to .Mac accounts).

Brett writes:

"Having worked with Apple's Aperture program for nearly a week now, I think potential users should be aware of a surprising limitation in the program that is not made clear on Apple's Web site or literature.

"It is possible to publish directly to a .mac site from within the program, but not to one's own domain or ftp site. This is a surprising limitation for a 'Pro' product, given most photographers have their own domains, and .mac is somewhat of a consumer offering with meagre disk space. (Even iView Media Pro, a far less expensive cataloging tool lets you upload to your own domain from within the program). You can post to your own domain indirectly from Aperture by exporting a site, then using another ftp program to upload it to your own domain.

Index:

• Release Notes
• Aperture 1.0.1 persistently appearing in Software Update -- fix
• Aperture 1.0.1: Release notes; What is fixed, and not fixed
• Solution for importing metadata from iView MediaPro
• Artifacts when adjusting images with "auto levels"
• Burning CDs of photos from Aperture
• Dual monitor issues
• Cannot recognize some DNG files
• Duplicate image imports -- fix
• Frequent crashes -- try deleting .plist file; disconnecting devices; check for bad RAM
• Viewing the supported camera list
• Vault Issues: Corruption; Incorrect "not enough space" errors
• IPTC/ metadata issues
• Methods for doing RAW conversion in ACR
• Long progress indicator for 6x4 images
• Navigation pane erratically shifting
• No extra-.Mac Web publishing
• Performance issues with libraries imported from
• Problems with print ordering
• Problems with Slideshow during photo print ordering
• Sharing libraries between multiple users

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