[anxela]

I can help you with the preview as pdf! What you're supposed to do is right-click (ctrl-click) somewhere around your book. Then there's an option "Preview book". It will assemble the book to show you how it will look in print. But I didn't know that this will give me an idea of how light or dark the prints are. :-) I can't notice a difference in the "exposure" in the preview compared to the iphoto original version.

When you right-click, there's also an option to save the whole book as pdf (great if you want to e-mail it to friends or family).

Thanks Britgirl!

It's nice to know that you got a great result, and that the quality is improved! Maybe I'll just give it a shot. I've heard from several that the give a refund if you're not happy, so I suppose I have nothing to lose (except time).

Thanks echogirl for letting me know about My Publisher, will check it out!