Hi Janelle

Have seen this video - several times, fast and slow, stop and experimenting along the way. But there's notihing about setting these margins.

I have searched and read a bunch of places. But niether this video or any other place tell me how to set this outer margin. Or if they do I have not been able to catch it?

I've been using Bridge for great many years, but is new in LR. But there must be some LR user somewhere that have made a contactsheet - with some sort of margins?

-- Søren

Tried to illustrate.

Hi Janelle

Sorry if I was unclear.

I that you've got the result I'm looking for. But how do you do it. When I drag the Margin Top/Bottom sliders - it only affects the margin between the pictures and the border. The page info still sticks to the border.

It's probably some basic stuff that I'm missing. But where do you set the margin to the page-info?

Sorry, but I still don't understand how you do it?

It is so that ...

A) there is some secret button or click that gives the margin that you showed me in above?

or

B) LR can't produce a contact sheet with this margin. You must edit the generated contact sheet afterwards?

Sorry, that I'm so dense

If for example I'm using printing via pdf-file printer or jpg file, which would be my preferred - There's no way to trick the printer to sneak in the missing margin.

Here's another sample showing the problem.

Would have uploaded another sample with the tiny margin, but upload seems to give some problem right now.

My settings are as described above. I use the pdf-printer that comes as part of the CS package. I've browsed through every corner of this print dialog and there's no margin stuff anywhere.

My latest attempt was to use an Epson 3880 printer driver - and print to jpg (an LR option). This gave a tiny margin. But there's nowhere that this margin can be set. The size of this margin seems to shift with different printer drivers.

Well, this is the end of the day where I evaluated LR. The option of making contact sheets was on the pro side. Having used Bridge and InDesign for this job earlier - it seemed very nice that here was a product (LR) that did have this feature. But it not all that cool after all.

Would have been cool to have this feature - working right.

Janelle, thanks for your effort.

-- Søren

ps: is this something that should be reported as a bug - or is it waste of time describing and argumenting that it's an error?

No worries, you was the one with the patience

-- Søren

Hi Brett

This was about the result we reached. You just put more clear.

I've browsed through the printer drivers I have. The pdf-printer does not have anything like setting margins. The Epson 3880 driver have some option, but not much.

To be honest, this margin for page numbers and page info - is not at all at level with everything else related to printing in LR. The fact that you're so limited and it takes this much effort clearly indicates to me that this is a design flaw in LR.

I know that both developers and managers hates re-visiting otherwise working code - but this should be refactored, that for sure

Both, thanks for you help. I can move on - a bit wiser

-- Søren