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<\/a>HP ENVY 4500 and its output cut into four pieces and the iPad that sent it there.<\/p><\/div>\n
iPad or iPhone with Pages app (free for the former and $10 for the latter)<\/p>\n
Download the HP ePrint app (free)<\/p>\n
Take all your pictures. If you can, shoot them in the same orientation as this will save you time in a subsequent step. Sometimes it’s just not possible though, especially when shooting objects on site. You’ll want to go into your camera app first and edit to orient all the images the same direction. That is to say make them all portrait or landscape orientation. This will help you when loading into Pages because it won’t let you rotate images inside the program. To do this, hit the edit button, then look for resize icon, seen to the left of the cancel button pictured below. \u00a0It kind of looks like two intersecting V shapes. The use the rotation icon which is a square with a curved arrow above it.<\/p>\n
In Pages, click “create new” and it will give you a couple different blank orientations, choose the one that matches the orientation of your images. If you have many pages to print, you can create all your pages ahead of time instead of printing after setting up each page of four images.<\/p>\n Hit the plus symbol found on the top bar, find the picture you want, you can only pick one at a time. The first picture shows up as a zoomed in image for some reason, subsequent images will not start\u00a0this way. You can either resize\u00a0on this screen or hit “done” and resize\u00a0on the next screen. Resize to\u00a0somewhere around 5.15″ for the widest dimension, that should space out well on the page without pushing you into a second page (more on that later). To initiate the resize option, click once on the image and you’ll get a few options to pop up above the image as well as blue dots on the four corners of the image. Put your finger on one of the dots and drag as desired, it will resize proportionally. This is all very rough sizing and gets the job done, I can’t say that every image is going to perfectly fill the space. There will likely be a little white space around the image here and there, but it’s not too distracting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In an ideal world, one would be able to create their own template in Pages and\u00a0could drop in an image perfectly aligned. If one\u00a0had more time during the packing process there could\u00a0be a text field\u00a0where you could add all the information about the object. For our purposes, we just needed to know what was in the box and the box was labeled with the donor’s name. \u00a0Everything was wrapped up, then placed either in its own box or within a speed box with many other things. Then the boxes were piled up on a pallet with the images facing out. This allowed for quick drop off when we got back to the museum and allows us to find the object later using the image.<\/p>\n Hit the SHARE button found on the top bar, it’s the one that looks like a square with an arrow pointing up and out if it.<\/p>\n Choose “Open in Another App”<\/p>\n When choosing a format I choose PDF. \u00a0I can say that the Pages format does not work, but honestly I haven’t tried the other\u00a0formats. \u00a0One of the others could be sightly faster to process, I’m not sure. \u00a0If someone has tested this\u00a0we’d love to know?<\/p>\n Hit “Choose App” or if you wait another second it will pop up the choices automatically. \u00a0Choose “Open in HP ePrint”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n