Affinity Publisher - "Contact Sheet"

[dkenner]

While the column of spreads down the left hand side of the (default) Affinity workspace is quite helpful, is there a way to have a "contact sheet"-like display that I could at the least, export to PDF for discussion, planning, purposes?  It would be helpful to drop those wee images (scalable) onto an 11x17 sheet to share, print, mark-up as the layout of a newsletter/ magazine is discussed.

Thank you,

Dixon Kenner

Canada

 

[walt.farrell]

You can Zoom out in the workspace to get multiple pages visible at once, then take a screenshot and use that:

Or you can adjust the width of the Pages panel and take a screenshot of that. You can also adjust the thumbnail size in the Pages panel if that helps:

[dkenner]

Did the first, but was trying more for what is in your second image.  Mea culpa, I never dragged it over far enough to get the double width, or triple &c.  I will search further on adjusting thumbnail size, I did not see it in the workbook, and have tried (obviously not very effectively) to adjust in the past.  

Thank you,

Dixon

[walt.farrell]

24 minutes ago, dkenner said:

I did not see it in the workbook,

The workbook is not a manual, and doesn't show everything.

As with many things related to studio panels, the Panel Preferences (aka "hamburger" icon) will give you access to the settings for that panel, including the thumbnail size.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, dkenner said:

 It would be helpful to drop those wee images (scalable) onto an 11x17 sheet to share, print, mark-up as the layout of a newsletter/ magazine is discussed.

Export the file as Pages, not Spreads, from Publisher to a PDF. Open that PDF in Designer and you'll have all the pages spread out for your perusal, drag an artboard over the whole thing and export that if you want.

[dkenner]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

The workbook is not a manual, and doesn't show everything.

As with many things related to studio panels, the Panel Preferences (aka "hamburger" icon) will give you access to the settings for that panel, including the thumbnail size.

 

True about the manual, but it is an excellent resource!  As for the hamburger icon, I have the icons as large as they would go and was hoping for slightly larger.  There are numerous work arounds that I have done, including cut and pasting to construct one.  I was hopeful that there might be a single setting somewhere which I could leverage.  

But the thread has been instructive, to which I am grateful.

 

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, dkenner said:

As for the hamburger icon, I have the icons as large as they would go and was hoping for slightly larger.

Old Bruces suggestion may be appropriate, then.

[Fixx]

You can also print to PDF and fit document pages to print page (maybe this is mac only?) I think it is not possible though to combine pages to spreads this way.

[PaulEC]

Another way, if you want an actual contact sheet of the pages, is to export them as images (jpg/png) then use Irfanview (or similar) to create a contact sheet.