Hello everyone, I have a question concerning the export to PDF. When I do the export of my tropy list including the images, many (not all) of them appear as black boxes. This seems to happen randomly, as it sometimes occurs to a selected data set, but not when exporting the entire list and vice versa. I would be happy if you could help me. Thank you!!
It sounds like this could be an error where individual images are not loaded (or are not loaded in time) during the export process. Can you tell us what operating system version youâre using? The print/pdf stacks work differently on each platform.
If you notice additional details it could help us figure this out. For example, if it the same photo always fails, I would guess that thereâs an issue loading that specific photo. If it happens randomly, as you say above, and given photo sometimes works and sometimes does not I would guess that itâs a timing issue. A timing issue should be more likely to happen if youâre exporting a larger set; less so if exporting a smaller set or even just a single photo.
If itâs down to timing, there is currently an arbitrary timeout (two seconds) â if all images have not reported as being loaded the PDF conversion will continue. Itâs possible that this is just too short in your case. Again, this is more likely to happen if you export lots of photos together or if the photos are very big, but maybe we just allow for a little more time there.
If the images are big it would also help to make sure you have the option âOptimize photo size and qualityâ enabled in the preferences.
Tropy is amazing. But it would really be necessary to develop the PDF export options: possibility to export several images per page; no more bugs when exporting a PDF, etc. Is there any progress on this point?
What kind of printing modes with several images per page would you like to see? Do you mean something like one item per page, with all photos in the item being shown (if possible). Which metadata, if any, would would you want to see on the page?
We have always planned to include some kind of item/per page mode but we have not seen good use cases yet to help us figure out exactly what this should entail.
Of course the other way to get multiple photos on the same page is via the OS-level print dialog, which should also allow you to save as PDF.
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For example, for my research, Iâd need to export PDFs from Tropy with 4 images per page, and all the metadata. Ideally, Iâd like to be able to choose how many images per sheet I want when exporting in Pdf format (and that the text remains sufficiently legible). But I donât know how complicated that is.
This would be very useful for historians to show a selection of images simply, and reduce the number of pages of the Pdf.
When you say four images per page, including all metadata for each image, how is that different from using the current layout and selecting four pages per sheet in the print dialog?
the text becomes illegible.
Reviving cause I was curious if there were any updates on this feature.
As someone trying to use Tropy to catalog science samples, showing one item per page with its title and image would be incredibly helpful to print group catalogs or lists so there are not several pages per item.
Just to clarify, youâd be interested in printing out only the first photo of an item (i.e., one item per page). And youâd like to include only the title field and no other metadata?
Hi,
Yes, the more detailed printout is helpful for teaching purposes, but to show an overview of the records to skim through- it would be helpful to be able to print a list of just one of the images and the title.
I have just found this topic here. I have experienced this problem several times (always latest Tropy version, in an updated Windows 10 environment).
Whenever it happens, I enter the Project View, then use the Consolidate command (either just the selected items, or the whole project), and export again. Usually, the PDF is exported correctly after consolidating.
I canât figure out a sequence of steps to reproduce this problem, but there is another âglitchâ that could be somehow related, it happens in the Item View:
- open an item with several photos in Item View
- in any photo, create one or more selections
- in the Photos Pane, whenever I click or navigate directly to a selection, without navigating to its parent photo, an exclamation mark appears next do this photo.
What happens in step 3 does not compromise the usability, as clicking back in the photo makes it appear correctly (even with the exclamation mark). Since it bothers me seeing a âfalse flagâ in the interface, I right click it and then click âconsolidate photoâ, and the exclamation mark disappears.
Having the same problem with printing items to pdfâs. Random BLACK BOXES
option âOptimize photo size and qualityâ enabled in the preferences.
random black boxes for larger number of files - up to 150 seems to be the limit
tried with different hardware â same result
I know itâs going to fail because the window in Tropy turns black for a second and then resets
If it blinks twice then the resulting file will have two sets of black boxes.
System is WIN 10
âAgain, this is more likely to happen if you export lots of photos together or if the photos are very big, but maybe we just allow for a little more time there.â How can the time be adjusted??
Weâll adjust the time in the upcoming release.
You guys are great â ( Longer print delay #896 for 1.17 version)!
Looking forward to the update
Hello I myself have problems printing PDF files.
Printing several pages leads at best to black pages and at worst to not being able to print (slowdowns that lead to having to reboot). Printing a single page with a large image is OK (visible on screen and visible when printing).
Are there any minimum memory specifications? ( 8 GB on my laptop ) Windows 11 family version 24H2
Please make sure that you have enabled the print setting âOptimize photo size and qualityâ in the preferences, which can help avoid this issue. Otherwise, itâs probably the same timing issue as above and will be addressed in the upcoming release.