Printing a package with different pictures

[Basil Pap]

Is there a way to generate automatically a package from pictures in a folder, where each sheet includes different pictures? (No clicking for each picture please.)
To be more specific, I need to print 12 4X5's. The Print Layout gives me 12 sheets with each picture repeated 4 times on a sheet. I would like 3 sheets of 4 pictures each, with every picture printed just once. Help talks about automating, but no relevant option appears on the automation tools command (Mac version)

[Beth Haney]

I sure can't find one! If you choose the option to print a picture package from a folder, it is pretty quick to change three of the four pictures, but I don't understand why it wasn't automated to use each picture in the folder one time. If we're lucky, somebody else will come along and explain what we're missing! Do I detect another feature request for the next version?

[Beth Haney]

That's what I thought, but I'm glad to get it confirmed. Sometimes it's easy to overlook that one magic button! :)

How ya been?! Enjoying the air conditioned office? It was 90 here yesterday again. Ugh. They're promising cooler temps today, and I sure hope the weatherman is right.

[Basil Pap]

Well, I assume since two of our experts don't know about it, that such a convenient way does not exist. Good thing to implement though in future upgrade.
Weather just fine in NH today.

[Byron Gale]

Basil,

You won't get exact control of the individual image size, but you can come close to what you describe by using the Contact Sheet option.

I tried it this way:

- Set document to 11 wide, 8.5 tall, 240 ppi, RGB.

- set thumbnails to across first, 2 rows, 2 columns.

I did not use the caption.

This produces 4-image pages, in approximately the size you mention. I don't know what your ultimate purpose is for the images, so don't know if the exact dimensions will be a show-stopper for you, or not.

Good luck,

Byron