Selecting assets in your lightbox and performing the 'view as contact sheet' action takes you to the Contact Sheet page where you can view your selected images side by side. This is useful for comparing assets and for printing out a contact sheet of assets.

There are a number of layout options available for your contact sheet which can be configured  via the expandable control panel at the top of the page:

Layouts with more than 4 images per page are not suitable for displaying with long lists of attributes (as they would overrun the page when printing). Therefore when you select a page layouts with more than 4 images you will only have the option whether to show the ID attribute or not.

Once you have selected a layout and configured which attributes to display, click ' Apply changes' to reload the page with your new layout options applied. 

Printing

When you are happy with the attribute and layout settings you can print the page by clicking 'Print' on the top right of the control panel.

Depending on which browser you use you can then change printing settings to fine tune how these images will appear on the printed piece of paper (e.g. reduce margins).For best results, we recommend the following:

• Make sure scaling is set to 100%
• Do not show headers and footers
• Check paper size is set to A4
  

When you come to print the page(s), the control panel, navigation and header of the page will all be automatically removed, so the printed page will only contain the assets and their attributes.

Printing as PDF document

The viewable contact sheet is exported to a PDF document. There are seven application setting parameters that need to be configured for this feature:

1.     download-contact-sheet-as-pdf

This setting lets the system know when to display the download option. This setting takes in 3 values,

none – the download option is not visible to any user

all – the download option is visible to all users

admin – the download option is visible only to admin users

2.     wkhtmltopdf-path

This setting holds the installation path of wkhtmltopdf application. For windows based server, the parameter is already configured. In case of Linux/Unix system, we need to download the application from (http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list) and install it; after installation provide the path of the executable in this variable.

NOTE: the application for Linux/Unix is a part of the libwkhtmltox-0.10.0_rc2.zip

3.     server-url-from-server

This stored the local server IP name, port on which the application is running and the application name configured, by default the value of the parameter is http://localhost:8080/asset-bank

4.     contact-sheet-preselected-attribute-ids

This settings should contain the list of comma separated attribute id's whose values are associated to the asset would be displayed by default. The attribute id's can be seen in the URL when editing the attributes in question (Admin > Attributes).

5.     contact-sheet-mandatory-attribute-ids

This setting should contain the list of comma separated attributes id's that would be mandatory to be displayed on the contact sheet page, these attribute id's will be selected and disabled. The attribute id's can be got from the admin settings attribute page

6.     contact-sheet-hide-watermark

This setting helps enable or disable the watermark settings on the ‘Contact Sheet’. The setting takes 3 values,

            none – the checkbox will not be visible to any user

            all – the checkbox will be visible to all users

            admin – the checkbox will be visible to admin users

7.     high-resolution-print-image-size

This setting used in conjunction with the ‘contact-sheet-print-high-resolution’ setting parameter, the default value is 2500 which is the side or the image and the resolution of the image is calculated accordingly by ImageMagik.