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  • Create PDF from catalog?

    Posted by Jason Brown on July 21, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    I need to create an electronic version of some media to a group that needs to look through about 700 clips…with searchable metadata and proxies (I’ve already created).

    Is there a function to send a catalog to a viewable file format like a PDF?

    -Jason

    Rolf Howarth replied 14 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Matthew Stamos

    July 21, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    Yes load the view you want to export list grid or thumbnail and select under the edit menu print current view.

  • Jason Brown

    July 25, 2011 at 11:04 am

    I’m about 80% of the way there…thanks for this post! 🙂

    One more question, how can I make text larger? I’m using a modified view using poster frame and thumbnail sequence view, but notes in my text field are very small. Also, if they go too long, they get cropped. Even with a hard return in the field.

  • Rolf Howarth

    July 27, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    Print as an HTML Formatted view, that will wrap a long Notes field onto as many lines as it takes.

  • Jason Brown

    July 28, 2011 at 2:30 am

    Thanks Rolf…that worked perfectly.

    I’m printing to PDF after outputting via HTM and the page breaks are breaking the fields into pieces.

    I have 3 text fields below a filmstrip thumbnail…is there anyway to force the name-thumbnail-and 3 text fields all together and break to new page instead of breaking them apart?

    -Jason

  • Rolf Howarth

    July 28, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    There isn’t I’m afraid, other than printing them out one by one. We’ll make a note to look into adding an option for that however.

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