Contact Sheet Problem - blank spaces left where photos should be

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Contact Sheet Problem - blank spaces left where photos should be

I'm have a problem wih Contact Sheets in Aperture 3.2.2

Aperture is spreading the photos over more pages than necessary and leaving blank spaces where some photos should be. For example,

when I print a contact sheet with 10 photos with rows = 2, columns = 3, Aperture is spreading them out over 3 pages as follows:

Page 1

Photo 1	Photo 2	Photo 3
Photo 4	blank	blank

Page 2

Photo 5	Photo 6	Photo 7
Photo 8	blank	blank

Page 3

Photo 9	Photo 10	blank
blank	blank	blank

Print dialogue settings are:

- borderless A4

- Landscape

- Rows = 2

- Columns =3

- row spacing = 0.28cm

- column spacing = 0.23cm

- margins, top = 1.14cm, left = 0.53cm, right = 0.74cm, bottom = 0.78cm

- rotate to fit = off

- border = none

- metadata = "Name Only", "Below Image"

- title = on

- sub-title = off

- page number = on

- crop marks = off

Can you help, please?

Thanks

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Aperture 3.2.2

Posted on Mar 8, 2012 6:05 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 8, 2012 7:00 AM in response to Strelizia regina

Just to narrow things down: do the blanks go away when you uncheck "Metadata"? How about "Title"?

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Answer 2

Mar 8, 2012 8:24 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

Changing the Metadata & Page Options has no effect on the blanks. I've tried turning all the options off (Metadate View = none, Logo = none, Commen Lines = 0, Title, Page Numbers and Crop Marks all unticked), the photos resize, but the photos and blanks stay in the same places.

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Answer 3

Feb 14, 2013 9:00 AM in response to Strelizia regina

Hi,

I have the same problem. Have you ever found a solution ?

Thanks

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Answer 4

Feb 14, 2013 9:13 AM in response to Arno Jannarelly

Sorry Arno, no I have not found a solution.

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Answer 5

Feb 15, 2013 12:49 AM in response to Strelizia regina

Thanks anyway, this is really wierd !

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Answer 6

Feb 15, 2013 4:11 AM in response to Strelizia regina

Sorry -- missed your follow-up months ago 😊 .

Let's either fix this or identify it as a bug.

Are you running the most recent version of Aperture?

Have you tried selecting another A4 setting?

Does it happen with another printer selected?

And -- although this is clear from your excellent description, I want to double-check -- the layout presented by Aperture is, for example, "7,8, blank, blank, 9, 10", and is not "7, 8, blank, blank, 11, 12"? In other words, Aperture is laying out "n + b" photo locations where "n" equals the number of Images selected and "b" equals the number of blanks Aperture is adding?

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