How to "print"photos with filenames as captions to PDF?

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January 11, 2018
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Are there suggestions, links, etc on how to do something like this?

I have Creative Cloud, but so far have only used Photoshop, so forgive me if this is too newbie.

Someone suggested Lightroom might be a way to do this. However, if there is a Windows 10 or other simpler way to do it I would be glad to hear of that.

My Creative Cloud has 3 version of Lightroom. If Lightroom is the tool which should I try?

Lightroom CC

Lightroom Classic CC

Lightroom CC (2015)

I have a set of photos of seniors in a facility. The file names are the names and room numbers. e.g.,

PUBLIC, John Q. (Bubba) 123A.jpg

DOE, Joan 456C.jpg

SMITH, William S. (Bill) 341B.jpg

WASHINGTON, George (G.W.) 321D.jpg

The goal is to print a set of the photos 1 time to verify that the picture, name, and room are correct.

I would like to print 12 (or so) photos to a 8.5 * 11 page with the filename as the caption. (could live the whole path as caption if need be.)

There is not a printer with color ink on my computer, so I want to "print" to CutePDF so a document can be printed on a friend's computer.

filenames as captions

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Correct answer 99jon

This is quite simple to do in Lightroom Classic using the slideshow module. Choose text overlay. Lightroom will pull the filenames from the metadata fields. Then simply export a batch to PDF.

99jonCorrect answer

Legend

This is quite simple to do in Lightroom Classic using the slideshow module. Choose text overlay. Lightroom will pull the filenames from the metadata fields. Then simply export a batch to PDF.

Kanikas

Legend

Moving to Lightroom CC

[Moved again to Lightroom Classic - mod]

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BigArtK3Author

Participant

thank you.

Are there links etc, that would help me get started with this task?

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

I' thought I'd try this out thanks John, but I cant get the line break to work.

Cmd J does not force a line break, which I presume you do inside the Text template Editor window.

I've tried entering text as in your previous attachment also but no joy either.

I'm using LR 9.2.1 on High Sierra . . .

Tony, The [Ctrl+J] was a new learning suggestion to me, and a test just now works for me in Windows & Lr-Classic 9.2.1-

I use the Print module, In Page Setup I selected 'Print to PDF' (The Slideshow module is not needed)

(I believe that Mac OS has PDF as an option in a Printer dialog. Windows-10 has a "Microsoft Print to PDF" option. I used a PrimoPDF as the 'Printer')