User Print Templates in LR4

If I upgrade from LR3 to LR4 will the print templates I created in LR3 still work in LR4?

Yep, should do. I can't think of anything that doesn't migrate. Develop presets will continue to work with PV2010 photos but won't match the sliders for PV2012 which is the new sliders. I think that's it.

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User Print templates will not hold Print Settings Presets

User print templates set up for different papers will not remember/hold Print Settings Presets

Jeff,
You are correct it does work, I added a step not needed - I created a Preset on the Print Setting page, I should have left that as Default, it works that way. How pleasant to get a response from you, I just watched Camera to Print & Screen #39 Print from Lightroom this morning where I learned about Print templates. Thanks so much.

How do I export/share print templates from LR4 on one computer to another LR4

I want to make special print templates for a client on my desktop production machine and somehow have those available on my laptop, too. Any way to do this? Sort of an Export? (Not images, just the template(s).)
jonathan7007

Yep, if you right-click on a template in the Template Browser panel, you'll find an export option. Or if you want to do a load at once, use the Show in Explorer / Finder option in that same right-click menu.

Since upgrading to LR 5.6 I can no longer change paper sizes for user print templates.

The print preview window shows the new size laid out properly but the printer feeds only the size which was used to create the preset resulting in clipping if a larger paper and cell size is invoked in page setup or xs white space if a smaller is invoked. OS X 10.8.5, Stylus pro 7890. REINSTALLED PRINTERS AND DRIVERS, DELETED AND REPLACED LR PREFERENCE FILE, Other aps print ok. I

While the problem is unsolved I have found a workaround. If I use the "Printer" button (lower far right) and print from the printer dialed pop up custom paper sizes chosen in the "page setup" are honored and the layout prints as shown in the LR print preview). On the other hand, If I print using the "Print" button the printer feeds only the paper size chosen when creating the preset.
Bob H

Printer Templates Don't work in LR4

I just installed LR4 (windows 7 version) and the printer templates came in OK (it seems) they are there anyway and when I mouse over them the little display window at the top shows them changing but when I click nothing happens. Everything works fine in LR3.
A bit more: It seems that it will work sporaticly sometimes after I run LR 3 and pop through a few print templates in LR 3, then go back to LR 4 where tehy will work for a bit then it won't again. Very strange.

You can to try to set "Ruler Units". Sorry for my english.

Lr4 print template not saving 'Print Settings'

First of all ... I'm coming from Lr3 running in Windows XP to Lr4 on a Mac, and I'm still getting used to the way Mac OS does things, so bear with me ...
Since using Lr4 on my Mac, today is the first time coming back to a particular art paper. If I remember correctly, with Lr3 (Windows) the print settings "Page Setup" and "Print Settings" were combined into a single dialog of parameters. In any case, a defined Lr3 print template remembered everything (e.g., paper size, paper type, print quality, etc). However, I am finding Lr4 (Mac) only remembers the 'Page Setup' settings and that I will always need check and usually modify the 'Print Settings'. Is this a functional difference between Windows and Mac OS, or am I missing something? Or, did something go awry when I upgraded to Lr 4.1 RC??
TIA & Cheerios from the Avalon Peninsula

Does this help? http://forums.adobe.com/message/4332138

Print Templates print preview window closes unexpectly when printing document

This is a cross posting from Internet Explorer Web Development after a suggestion that this forum would be a better location. See
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/351e1245-b606-4467-9f3c-1c72f9cdf9ea/print-templates-print-preview-window-closes-unexpectly-when-printing-document?forum=iewebdevelopment.
I have raised an issue through Connect for this:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/1134168/ie9-to-ie11-print-templates-print-preview-window-closes-unexpectly-when-printing-document, but I would like some more visibility of the issue as my customers thought my application was closing when
they printed a document. I also don't know if an issue in Connect gets any priority support via MSDN, but this forum does.
This looks to me like a problem in the IE Print Templates startDoc API call, but if there is a more appropriate forum to raise this issue in please let me know.
In the application where I use print templates, the window closing is not in it self a problem because the Javascript that is calling startDoc also closes the Print Preview window when the print is finished.
The fact that the application looses focus and can be hidden by the windows of other applications when the Print Preview window is closed by startDoc is the issue noticed by our customers, so I need a fix preferably, or a work around at a pinch.
Details of the issue reproduced below.
When using IE Print Templates, the startDoc function is causing the print preview window to close. This behaviour started with IE9, and is still present with IE11.
When an application is using print templates (see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753279(v=vs.85).aspx) for print functionality, this has the effect of causing the application to become hidden by any other application window once printing from the print preview window has started. It is
actually this behaviour that started me looking at this issue as the users thought the hosting application had closed.
Print Templates are not accessible by using IE as a web browser, but only when using the WebBrowser Control to embed IE in an application. The reference for this feature is available from this url:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753279(v=vs.85).aspx
and a sample Microsoft application that demonstrates the use of Print Templates can be used to demonstrate the problem (required for the reproduction steps). The application is available via this article and searching for "download spiffy".
Steps to reproduce the problem:
To see the full effect of the issue, first ensure there is a window from another application (like Windows Explorer) that will cover the sample applications window if brought to the foreground (making the Windows Explorer window full screen works).
Start the sample application (and ensure that the full screen Window Explorer is the next application to activate).
Then in the drop down box in the top right corner of the UI select Template8.htm.
Click the Print Preview button that is just below the drop down box (this will open a new Print Preview window).
In the new window click the Print… button (this will open a Print dialog).
Click the Print button at the bottom of the Print dialog.
The Print dialog closes (expected) and then the Print Preview window also closes (not expected), however the document is still printed successfully.
When the Print Preview windows is closed unexpectedly, the Windows Explorer window is brought to the foreground (obscuring the sample applications window).
If you reselect the sample application and click the Print Preview button again, the Print Preview dialog is not displayed unless you restart the application (this looks to be a symptom of the same issue, not a separate problem).
To see that the Print Preview window appears to be closed by the startDoc call, use the resource editor in Visual Studio (the exe can be opened directly by File | Open | File…) to edit the HTML resource "TEMPLATE8.HTM" (I found I needed to delete
it and add it back in for the change to stick), find the startDoc call and add two alerts, one on the line before and one on the line after. When IE is accessing the template, it is being done using the name of the executable (so do not rename the modified
version of printtemplates.exe, make the changes to a copy in a different directory if you don't want to change the original). Start the modified version of the application and follow the same steps as in the reproduction. This time, after clicking
the Print button in the Print dialog, the dialog will close, the first alert will pop up, then the Print Preview window will close, then
the second alert will pop up.
Thank you,
Warren.

Hi Shu,
I have noticed that the print templates API is listed as part of the Legacy APIs.
Is this just because it hasn't changed or is not new? Or does this mean that it is no longer maintained and may be removed (or at least deprecated) at some point in the future?
It would good to know if we should start planning for the implementation of a different method of printing.
I understand that the sample application is no longer maintained, but I also think that the Print Template API that it uses has not changed, and so should still work (and it does mostly).
If the Print Preview window was being closed as a result of using the Print dialog (and if it had behaved the same way with IE8) I would be willing to go with the by design argument.
I have found that the Print Preview window is not closed until startDoc is called, and it closes before control is returned from the startDoc function.
Just as part of investigating and try to find a workaround, if I call window.close(), any alert calls made no longer display the alert window after the close call.
Alert still functions after startDoc has closed the window however.
The is not the sort of consistent behaviour I would expect from something that is by design.
Also while investigating, I found that calling startDoc after calling window.close() results in an exception with the error code -2147467259 (0x80004005), this is probably quite normal and expected, but does indicate that the Web Browser Control should
not be closed till after printing.
I had found that old thread, and I had concluded it was the same issue, but it was also aimed at different aspect of the problem (which I see in the sample application, but not my application).
The visible issue I have is that my users think the application has been closed because after clicking print (on the Print dialog) the application gets hidden by other windows from other applications.
This aspect affects the sample in the same manner and so it was a convenient way to demonstrate the problem.
If IE connect do not look at this issue any time soon, do I have any other avenues to resolve this issue?
Thank you,
Warren.

Lightroom 5 print templates not allowing images to be moved into cells & not allowing individual cells to be selected

I've run into a problem using the LR5 print templates that has occurred suddenly and I need help figuring out what happened.
Yesterday I tried using a Print template from my User Templates menu and the one I selected wouldn't allow an image to be dragged into a cell. I also noticed that the template wouldn't allow me to select the cells for size adjustment, either. Other templates had the same behavior, even the templates in the Lightroom Templates menu.
Not only that, but when I hover the mouse cursor over the template name in the menu it displays the template properly in the Preview pane above the menus, but when I click the mouse to select the template the Preview display changes to one that's completely different, which is the same as what shows in the main viewing area.
I have a few non-Lightroom templates (added by me) that work properly, but all of the Print templates in the Lightroom Templates menu show these symptoms. How can I get the Lightroom Print Templates to behave?
Anybody...suggestions??
Thanks!

I'm having almost the exact same problem. the Lightroom library is not recognizing that the files stored in a LOCAL dropbox folder are the same ones as in the library. So if I try to "synch" library, i end up with 40k photos that are missing from my library but they are not. They are there.

Missing Print Templates Folder

I have recently purchased some blog templates and I can not install them because I have no print templates folder.
I go edit-preferences-show lightroom folder- lightroom- and there is no print templates folder to drop the templates into.
Please help!
Thanks!

I assume you mean, Edit / Preferences... [presets tab] Location: [Show Lightroom Presets Folder]. If you haven't yet saved any print presets of your own, then LR has not yet had any need of a User folder to contain such. So one may not yet have been made.
The easiest way to get LR to do that, (and to be sure that you are looking in the right place) : click the + icon next to Template Browser in Print module.
IOW: save a dummy print preset, doesn't matter about its contents, but enter some very distinctive name and then click Create. By default this should go into "User Templates", which is made as necessary, though you can choose to make a differently named folder if you prefer.
Full path on my Win8.1 is C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Print Templates\User Templates
Then take a look in Explorer and see what has changed - if there's any problem, you can always disk search for whatever distinctive template name you have just entered. Copy your other bought templates alongside this new dummy print preset, restart LR and you should be able to start using any of those. Delete the dummy preset in due course.
(Note that it is quite usual for built-in LR presets to be held somewhere quite different, than user created or user added items. The provided choices such as "(1) 4 x 6" and "custom 1 over 2" may not be findable anywhere on disk, for example.)

Location of printing templates

I just moved to a new PC with better performance. I copied all LR files under User(I think) but I lost all my printing templates. How can I restore my printing templates? I am running Vista Ultimate.
Lennart

The door to the user's Library is now hidden but it is easy to open. In Finder, hold down the Option key while clicking on the Go menu & your users Library will appear about halfway down the list. Then go to Application Support > IWork > Numbers > templates > My Templates to find & delete the unwanted template.

Change print template type to use in different way?

A family member created a print template in my Lightroom5.5 (picked sizes/grid, strokes, etc.) and it seems to have been created as a "Picture Package" because I have saved it, placing it within the "User Templates" folder during the Save process. Now I am asked to fill it with 25 selected images and these are in the sliding image picker at the bottom of the LR interface. (Can't remember the name of that lower panel...) But what surprised me is that this new template layout cannot be used as a "Contact Sheet." Here's what I see on the screen:
-I have the layout displayed.
-The chosen grid has all the same (first) image displayed
-"Picture Package" is highlighted in the "Layout Style" panel
-I click "Contact Sheet" in the "Layout Style" panel
-The view immediately changes to a single panel filling the chosen paper size.
-I go to the Template Browser and click my desired template again,
-but it does not fill from the selected images
Is this possible? What an odd choice for the UI designer. I don't remember not having the flexibility to switch the way the print template was "filled" before LR5.x -- I believe I did this in earlier versions.
I searched Adobe documentation. They write about templates as having the stores characteristic of "contact sheet" or "Package" or "Custom", which is new to me. They did not describe a part of the customization at which the user creates a layout as a "contact sheet" or "Picture package" or "Custom". If I start out and create a layout, then decide I want to use that template as a "contact sheet" after I make it, there seems to be no way to save it in a different category of template. So on deadline I find that the workflow is not clear and the documentation does NOT EXPLAIN what to do (or just say: you can't do this, which would be honest and helpful.)
I tried to re-save it as a different "Type" ("Category"?) ...and there seemed no way to do this. I am now going to build another screen with the 25 panels and, no surprise, it must be initiated as a "custom" which is how I believe it was done before.
I am sure someone knows what I am doing wrong. but I spent this time writing out the details so someone at Adobe *might* catch this and talk to the documentation elves. How can we be 5 [major]versions into this and have the workflow/documentation exhibit these holes?
jonathan7007

Hi Suresh:
This is what I would do.
Here is the demo...Hope this will help.
BHAVESH@oracle10> create table suresh(created_date date, attribute1 varchar2(20));
Table created.
BHAVESH@oracle10> desc suresh
Name Null? Type
CREATED_DATE DATE
ATTRIBUTE1 VARCHAR2(20)
BHAVESH@oracle10> insert into suresh values (sysdate,to_char(sysdate,'yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:SS'));
1 row created.
BHAVESH@oracle10> insert into suresh values (null,to_char(sysdate,'yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:SS'));
1 row created.
BHAVESH@oracle10> select * from suresh;
CREATED_DATE ATTRIBUTE1
01/01/2009 11:24:08 AM 2009/01/01 11:01:08
2009/01/01 11:01:28
BHAVESH@oracle10> -- please notice my nls_date_format is mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss AM
BHAVESH@oracle10> -- which can be changed to anything...use alter session or on windows..using registry..or on server
BHAVESH@oracle10> -- ....using nls_date_format init parameter.
BHAVESH@oracle10> alter session set nls_date_format = 'DD-MM-YYYY';
Session altered.
BHAVESH@oracle10> select * from suresh;
CREATED_DA ATTRIBUTE1
01-01-2009 2009/01/01 11:01:08
2009/01/01 11:01:28
BHAVESH@oracle10> -- however, this may not work for you.
BHAVESH@oracle10> -- so, you can convert the date in the format you want
BHAVESH@oracle10> select to_char(created_date,'DD-MM-YYYY') as converted_date, ATTRIBUTE1 from suresh;
CONVERTED_ ATTRIBUTE1
01-01-2009 2009/01/01 11:01:08
2009/01/01 11:01:28
BHAVESH@oracle10> -- now use the decode function
BHAVESH@oracle10> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1* select s.*, to_char(decode(created_date,null,to_date(ATTRIBUTE1,'yyyy/mm/dd hh:mi:ss')),'dd-mm-yyyy') as new_date from suresh s
BHAVESH@oracle10> /
CREATED_DA ATTRIBUTE1 NEW_DATE
01-01-2009 2009/01/01 11:01:08
2009/01/01 11:01:28 01-01-2009
If your date format is different under the attribute1 column, then you have to write a PL/SQL function to handle different date formats under the same column of different column!
THanks
- Bhavesh

Cannot get print templates to change

Once I use a print template in Lightroom 5 I can not click on another one and have it change the layout. I find I have to close Lightroom and go back into Print. Is there a way to correct this?

Troubleshooting extensions and themes
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes
Preferences are not saved - User.js file overriding preferences
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Preferences%20are%20not%20saved#w_user-js-file-overriding-preferences
* DELETE ALL LINES in '''user.js''' file
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Missing print templates - Lightroom preset ones

All the preset Lightroom PRINT templates have disappeared. I see the folder on the left that says Print templates and Lightroom templates and user templates. If I import templates they show up in user templates as expected but the Lightroom Templates is completely empty - just pops up new folder box. I have checked preferences and looked for the template folder. I just has a folder for user templates which seems to be what the problem is. I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times to no avail. I also went back and deleted old versions (3,4) and the preferences files and every other file/folder I could find relating to lightroom including catalogs. I have lightroom installed on both my laptop and Imac. The problem is occuring on both so it seems that accidently deleting something is unlikely. I've never looked at the print module before so this may have been going on for a long time.
Any ideas on how to get these.
<moved by mod from downloading,installing,setting up - kglad>

I assume you mean, Edit / Preferences... [presets tab] Location: [Show Lightroom Presets Folder]. If you haven't yet saved any print presets of your own, then LR has not yet had any need of a User folder to contain such. So one may not yet have been made.
The easiest way to get LR to do that, (and to be sure that you are looking in the right place) : click the + icon next to Template Browser in Print module.
IOW: save a dummy print preset, doesn't matter about its contents, but enter some very distinctive name and then click Create. By default this should go into "User Templates", which is made as necessary, though you can choose to make a differently named folder if you prefer.
Full path on my Win8.1 is C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Print Templates\User Templates
Then take a look in Explorer and see what has changed - if there's any problem, you can always disk search for whatever distinctive template name you have just entered. Copy your other bought templates alongside this new dummy print preset, restart LR and you should be able to start using any of those. Delete the dummy preset in due course.
(Note that it is quite usual for built-in LR presets to be held somewhere quite different, than user created or user added items. The provided choices such as "(1) 4 x 6" and "custom 1 over 2" may not be findable anywhere on disk, for example.)

Print templates

Print templates no longer work after instaling Lightroom 4.1 from 4.0. How can I fix this?

Uh, you might wanna provide just a bit more info...like OS & platform, what printer, when and how were the rint templates created (in LR4 or earlier). What you've asked is impossible to answer as asked...

Need to track if a user printed a doc via builtin AcroPDF.DLL control

I am creating a small application in Visual Studio 2008, using VB.NET.
I am getting a PDF from a webservice, and need to do a couple things:
1.) Show the PDF to the user with all available controls (i.e. Print, Save, Email, Change Size of viewer, etc.).
2.) If the user selects print, I need to know that the user printed the piece so that I can log it to our database with it's 'last printed date'.
I have the retrieval and presenting part all working perfectly using the AcroPDF.dll to tap into the user's Acrobat Reader (latest version) that they have installed on their computer; but can't seem to figure out if there is some way for me to know that the user went into the print dialog from the automatic toolbar that is created and used by the AcroPDF.dll when I use the following command:
AxAcroPDF1.LoadFile(<file name goes here>)
Is there some way for me to intercept some event within the AxAcroPDF1 object so that I can interrogate it an know whether or not the user printed the report?
While I am asking, I will also ask about the Send Email method, is there a way that I can tell if the user clicked on it and went into, and completed, that function?
If there is no default way to tap into the existing infrastructure, is there an easy way for me to 'override' the existing print button so that it calls a function that I create instead of the one it currently does?
I would like to keep the visual aspect like it is, if possible, to keep it as polished as I can.
Thanks,
Jim

lrosenth,
Thanks for the reply! I have only two follow up questions:
1.) What, exact javascript am I supposed to insert into the PDF that will allow me to know if the user printed the document from within my windows based application? I have injected javascript before into a PDF, but for a different reason.
2.) Where, exactly, would I want to inject the javascript into the PDF?
any example javascript code, etc. would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Jim

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