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I'll need you to send me your ContactSheetX.ini and .log files and some sample images.
CSX is not setup to maintain the original image size. That's not what contact sheets do.
sample image
Yes, thank you. I know that contact sheets shrink images. But my images are already "contact sheet" size. almost 2" x 2.5". So if i want to make a contact sheet of many of those images, I am having a hard time controlling the images from shrinking or stretching. all images are vertical. no rotation. I uploaded a sample image and the log files. Any help would be great. If I can't maintain the original size, can i maintain the original scale (x and y)? thanks again.
Tweaked CSX settings
I've attached a new file to this thread: CSX-Fix.ini. It is a new ini file (that you can load from the Settings panel) that will generate sheets with images that match the size of the image you provided.
On the layout panel I turned off Auto-Fill and Constrain to Square. These would both result in cropped thumbnails.
I looked at the other settings and wasn't sure what I could adjust, so I assumed that 24x7 thumbnails to a sheet, 72ppi, and the margins and spacing needed to be held constant.
That left only the height and the width to be changed.
First, I focused on the width. You started off with 72 inches. I initially ignored that, plugging in values like 50 and 100 to get a feel for how the thumb dimensions would change with different sheet widths.
I would run a test using only a single source image (selected in Bridge). When the sheet was generated, I would load the Transparency selection and look at the height and width in the info panel. The numbers I was looking for were w=2.000 and h=2.444, the dimensions of the original image.
50 was too small. 100 too large. 75 was a little to large. 72 was a little too small. 73 inches wide was perfect.
There's probably a nice mathematical formual buried in the CSX code that has all of this info, but it was easier for me to do this empirically rather than find the formula.
Arriving at correct height will be easier, but I'll leave that for you. But the value should be something close to (2 + (2.444 * 7) + 6).
The '2' is for the margins, the 2.444*7 is the image content and the 6 is for the spacing between the rows.
Maybe :) It works out to a bit over 25 inches.
If you need to keep the page size constant, I would recommend changing the number of rows and columns to get the thumb size correct.
Keep me posted.