Each Print Batch has one Print Layout, that defines where the images and optional image captions are placed on the page. These places where the images will appear on paper are called Cells. There are four Print Layout options, which control where the cells will appear, how large each cell is, spacing between cells, and other layout options.
Many of these Layouts include the following options:
| • | Best fit - Check this to allow Bibble to rotate images 90 degrees if doing that would result in a larger image. When this is unchecked, images will be printed in the normal orientation set for each image. |
| • | Scale crop - Crop the image to fill the cell with as much of the image as possible. This will result in no white space inside each cell. |
| • | Scale reduce - Shrink the image so that no part of the image is cropped out, ensuring that your whole picture will appear on the print. |
A Contact Sheet layout fills a page with a configurable number of columns and rows of images. The 'Spacing' setting controls the gap that is placed between adjacent cells. A Caption appears next to each cell. By default, the caption will be the full, original filename of the image being printed, and will be located below the image cell. The Size control sets the size of the Caption cell, and the Font Size control sets the point size of the font used to print the Caption. Use any Renaming Formats as part of the Caption text. |
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The Contact Sheet shown above would look like this:
Fixed Size layouts place cells of a specific size - chosen with the dropdown or entered into the two text boxes below the dropdown. Bibble 5 will automatically configure the page layout to fix as many cells on a page as possible. 'One image per page' tells Bibble 5 to fill each page with a single image; with this unchecked, Bibble will place one image in each cell. 'Pictures per page' can be set to limit Bibble 5 to only put a specific number of images on a page; 'Max' tells Bibble 5 to fill the page with as many cells of the specified size as possible. |
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Note that after changing the paper size, the number of images that fit on a page and their placement on the page will also change. It is possible to select a cell size larger than your paper size, in which case the image will not print.
The Fixed Size layout shown above would look like this:
The N-Up Layout allows you to specify how many images to print on a page, in rows and columns, with the designated amount of spacing between cells. |
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The N-Up layout shown above would look like this:
The Custom Layout style is the most complicated, but also the most flexible. The layout is controlled by text files that reside in the "layout" folder inside your Bibble Settings folder. The format of these files discussed in the Configuring Bibble 5 chapter on Custom Print Layouts. |
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There are two custom layouts that are provided with Bibble 5, which result in layouts like these:
