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planeman320
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April 29, 2013
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Contact sheet pdf in lightroom

  • April 29, 2013
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I was recently shown how to create contact sheet pdf's in Lightroom 4 which could be emailed to clients onto which they could comment and return. All this without the need for more software or so i thought. I cannot seem to make it work. What software is needed and what do I need to do?  Many thanks.

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deaftv84
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October 20, 2015

Hi Have you figure out how to do that export contact sheet with comments for clients to create comment on contact sheet with each picture yet? Hope so!

Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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October 21, 2015

A contact sheet can be 'printed' to a PDF from LR if your OS or an installed program allows this-

I can print to pdf in two ways (I do not have Acrobat!)

For a customer to add comments to your PDF I assume they need "Acrobat" or a program that allows text addition to a PDF- I can do this in Foxit-

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
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April 29, 2013

Press the Print.... button, bottom right, then show us a screenshot of this dialog if you still can't see it.

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
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    planeman320Author
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    April 29, 2013

    Thanks to you both for looking to assist me.  Perhaps I could draw your attention to my original question, which was to produce the pdf as a document which can be commented on.  I may have misunderstood what I was told. Victoria, I get this dialogue box and I can save as a pdf but simply as an 'image'. I have assumed I always needed some more software but not sure just what. Is it just the free 'reader' and if I send the pdf as I can save it using the above will it be able to be commented on by whomever it is sent to? I got the impression that it was self contained but I now wonder if the recipient also needs Adobe reader or something else?

    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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    April 29, 2013

    Yes, I think Adobe Reader would be needed for anyone to make comments, but it may be that they need more than that (Acrobat or whatever it's called nowadays). I don't think Preview can do this, but I could be wrong.

    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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    April 29, 2013

    Sure you weren't shown Bridge? Window > Workspace > Output.

    In LR you would need to "print" but choose PDF as the printer. It's different  on Mac/PC. Say which you use.

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    planeman320Author
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    April 29, 2013

    To answer your questions it was definitely not Bridge, I was actually shown using the LR5 demo but told it was the same. I am confident that I am following the process correctly it is just that I am not getting the option to print to pdf.

    I am using Mac

    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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    April 29, 2013

    OK, then the option to print to PDF is in the Mac's print dialog.

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