Lightroom 2.3 Contact Sheet "print to JPEG" not working

[rushnp774]

I've searched the web and these forums to no end, and can't find anyone else who has ever had this problem. I'm REALLY trying to warm up to LR, but it's just error after error for me...

Whenever I go through the motions to create a contact sheet, once I click "print to file", I get a dialog box to save it. I type the file name, and in the box below it ("save file as type"), the only option is "Supported Files" without any mention of JPEG or PDF. After naming my contact sheet and saving it, there's a new folder on my desktop with my contact sheet name, but there is nothing in it.

This always happened to me with LR 2.1. Someone recommended me upgrade to 2.3, and the first contact sheet I made with it worked perfectly. Ever since then, this same error/bug/issue happens.

Also, I'm running Windows XP 32-bit (in case that matters), and there's always a message in my "print" dialog in the upper left with my printer's name and "page x of xx" (usually based on my last contact sheet I tried to print). Could there be some issue from the old job not being cleared from memory or something?

I'd be VERY grateful for any help in resolving this issue, because the contact sheet feature is one of the biggest things that made be get Lightroom. Thanks in advance!

 

[Fragglerock]

afaik you give it a folder name and it puts all the pages in that. The files are named <foldername>-1.jpg <foldername>-2.jpg

It takes a while as it has to do a fair bit of processing to make the sheets up.

 

[incapete]

Hmm, works ok for me.... sorry, not much help!
Although on mine the "Supported Files" bit is actually "Supported Files (.jpg)" and it outputs a jpeg file without problem.

 

[rushnp774]

afaik you give it a folder name and it puts all the pages in that. The files are named <foldername>-1.jpg <foldername>-2.jpg

It takes a while as it has to do a fair bit of processing to make the sheets up.

That just seems odd to me. Why would I want it to recreate a bunch of JPEGs in a new folder? All I want is one contact sheet with 6 images per page. I think we may be misunderstanding each other

Hmm, works ok for me.... sorry, not much help!
Although on mine the "Supported Files" bit is actually "Supported Files (.jpg)" and it outputs a jpeg file without problem.

That's exactly what happened to me the first time I created a contact sheet once I upgraded to 2.3. "FINALLY!" I thought LR was going to start being good to me, but nope, just got lucky that once. Every other time, the same error/oddity/bug (don't really know because apparently I'm the only LR user with this error).

Thanks again for the responses, and I welcome any more help.

 

[incapete]

That's exactly what happened to me the first time I created a contact sheet once I upgraded to 2.3. "FINALLY!" I thought LR was going to start being good to me, but nope, just got lucky that once. Every other time, the same error/oddity/bug (don't really know because apparently I'm the only LR user with this error).

Thanks again for the responses, and I welcome any more help.

I'll have a play around and check it all still works...

 

[Craikeybaby]

Can you print to a pdf, with something like PDFcreator?

 

[Chappers]

Try uninstalling Lightroom. Then reinstall version 2.3. Provided your catalogue is in the default location the program should find it and load OK. ( If not just point to the correct location on initial start up)

After reinstalling see if it works OK. I've found on a couple of ocassions loading a update onrtop of an existing problem program doesn't clear the problem. removing and reinstalling does help. It'll only take a couple of minutes to do anyway.

Have you tried the Adobe LR forums to see if anyone else has had the problem?