IDimager supports so-called "printing templates". Printing templates are pre-defined page layouts that you can use to print images with fixed sizes. There are several print templates available. Examples of templates are "print 2 images per page, each sized 6"x4". Print templates make it easy if you need fixed sized printing.
First open the collection with the images you'd like to print. Then select one or more thumbnails by clicking the thumb while holding the [Ctrl] key down. The chapter “Collection Viewer” describes more selection options. Finally, after selecting your thumbnails, press [Ctrl]+[P] to open the print dialog..
Once you made your selection the printing dialog will open. If needed then activate the tab "Print Templates":
Then select your print template. There are a few options:
Fit method
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The print templates all have pre-defined fixed size slots. You can specify here how the images should be fit inside these slots. Options are:
Best fit in slots: With this method, IDimager will scale your image to completely fit in the slot. It could be that you get empty spaces if the image ratio does not match the slot's ratio.
Crop to fit full slots: With this method, IDimager will crop (=cut) a minimal amount off the image to make it completely fit the slot. As you can see in the sample image below, there is a part of the upper and lower area of the image cropped off to make the image fit the slot completely.
Stretch to fit full slots: With this method, IDimager will stretch the image so that it completely fits the slot. That means it may have to change the image ratio which may lead to distorted images. The stretch method is generally not recommended, unless you really have a need for it.
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Copies per image |
Here you can specify the number of copies of each image that you'd like to print in the template. There is a check mark and when that is check then IDimager will print the same number of copied of each image as there are slots available in the template. In other words, one image will be printed in each slot so you'll get one page per image.
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Add a frame to each image |
Use this option to add a light gray frame around every slot in the template. You could use that if you need to cut out the images after printing.
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