Been working on a book/magazine generator and its now at beta so have some questions

I started working on a book/magazine generator back in 2023. Got to the stage where i needed to update various other backend systems I run here especially a bespoke content DB. That took me upto Oct 2025 and since then I have been pushing forwards and it is now at beta phase.

It is a fully scriptable system using cascading config files and sizing and page+object template files that handles chapters and autogenerates table of contents. End product is pdf 1.7 with bleed edges.

Spent an enormous amount of time on color science and extracting and using the dominant colors from various images ie. cover image to automate styling of various parts of the book/magazine.

Attached is part of the color science subsystem for extracting the dominant colors from an image for later use in generating the content pages.

Now I have reached this stage and it generates what I want for my purposes I wanted to gather any feedback from other photographers.

What would you like to see in an automated system to stylishly display your work or genre ?

All feedback welcome!

iain

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Wow! Impressive! When I made my first book, I had an editor choose the layout for me. I did have to come up with what I wanted on the cover, back cover and spine. Maybe that's worth looking at.

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