Printing and Exporting Thumbnail Sheets

The Thumbsheets Dialog allows you to create or print pages of thumbnail indexes. To display it select Thumbnail>Print/Export Thumbnail Sheets

Choose which files to export information on:

Create Thumbsheets for SELECTED files

If selected then thumbsheets are created only for the selected files

Create Thumbsheets for ALL files in this mode

If selected then thumbsheets are created for all files displayed in the current mode

Exclude non-image files

If checked then only images are added to the thumbsheets, otherwise non-image formats are added but only given a default graphic

How would you like to export your thumbnail sheets?

Export the Thumbsheets to the following printer:

If selected then the thumbsheets will be printed to the specified printer

Save the Thumbsheets to the following filename stem:

If selected then the thumbsheets will be saved to the specified file, if more than one file is required to export your thumbsheets then successive pages will be given an incremented filename, e.g. if your first file is mythumbs.jpg, then the second will be mythumbs2.jpg, then mythumbs3.jpg..)

Settings

Heading

Specify the text that is added to the top of each page

Number of thumbnails per page

These setting will determine how many thumbnails are placed across (horizontally along the image) and down (placed vertically down the image) the page . The higher the setting the more thumbnails will be displayed but the smaller they will appear.

Resolution of the image (when saving)

This determines the size of the image (in pixels) that will contain your thumbnails. A good choice is to set this to the size of your screen. (most screens are 800 or 1024 pixels wide and 600 or 768 pixels high)

Colors

Allows you to specify the background and text colors for the thumbsheet

Advanced Settings

If you click the advanced settings button you will be given the following extra options:

Heading:

Specify Heading Font Size

By default Smart Pix Manager determines the size of the font by the available space. If you prefer you can specify a point size.

Append the Page Number to the Heading

If you want the page number to be appended to the heading (in the format ',page x') then select this option

Filename Display:

Filename Position

Allows you to specify whether the filename for the thumbnails should be shown, and if so, above or below the thumbnails

Specify Filename Font Size

By default Smart Pix Manager calculates an appropriate font size based on the average width of your filenames. If you prefer you can specify a point size.

Hide Filename Extensions

If checked the file extension will not be displayed, e.g. "Image" will be shown for the file "Image.jpg"

Other:

Page Margins:

This setting allows you to specify what proportion of the page is not used at either the top and bottom or left and right of the image

Thumbnail Border

Allows you to specify a border that will be added to your thumbnails

Thumbnail Shadow

Adds a shadow to your thumbnail of the specified color

Background Image

Allows you to select an image that will be tiled onto the background of your thumbsheet

Controls:

Menu: Thumbnails>Print/Export Thumb Sheets

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