PDF Profile Dialog Box

Lets you enter a a name for your custom layout or edit the existing name.

Lets you enter a short description of the layout. This description only appears in the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you Select an image file representing the custom layout you are creating; it will be displayed in the profile list. For best results, your image should be 45x45 pixels.

Lets you select the unit of measurement (points, mm, cm or inches) used in the Page, Panels, Header and Footer tab of the PDF Profile dialog box. The unit measurement is used for margin, spacing, height and width of a panel, header or footer.

Lets you select any font installed on your system to use for all text in the PDF document.

To export Unicode characters to your PDF document, click the [...] button to select the language encoding and the embedded PDF font that will be used to display the text in the PDF document.

Lets you define the size of the font.

Lets you set the duration value in feet. The foot measurement was used mostly by traditional animators. In the XSheet, a foot contains 16 frames.

Select the type of page you want to print on:

• 11x17
• A3
• A4
• Legal
• Letter
• Custom

If you select Custom, fill in the desired width and height.

Lets you enter the desired width of your PDF. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you enter the desired height of your PDF. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you set the PDF to portrait or landscape orientation.

Options include:

• 0 degree
• 90 degrees
• 180 degrees
• 270 degrees

Lets you set the titles used in the main table.

Use a semicolon (;) to separate each entry. You can also specify the font size after a title. If you write more titles than the number of columns in the storyboard, the PDF will only use those written first. The font size value must be written after the title and a coma.

If you want to make sure that each title respects the naming of the captions, you can write <caption_titles> as the title. This entry will affect all of the captions in the storyboard.

For example: Cut;Picture,15;Caption,15;Time

Lets you set the degree of clockwise rotation of the storyboard on the printed page.

Lets you select the number of storyboard pages to print on each sheet.

Lets you reverse the position of the captions in relation to the panels.

Lets you enter the distance from the top page edge. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you enter the distance from the bottom page edge. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you enter the distance from the left page edge. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you enter the distance from the right page edge. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you insert a cover as the first page of the PDF.

Lets you select an image (.bmp, .jpg or .png) to use as a watermark on the cover.

Displays the project title defined in the storyboard properties.

Displays the project subtitle defined in the storyboard properties. You can find the properties in the Top Menu > Storyboard > Properties.

Displays the duration (as a time code or frame) of the selected storyboard panels.

Displays the date of export.

Lets you include a revision note on the cover page.

Defines the number of panel rows displayed per page.

Defines the vertical spacing between panels. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Defines the number of panel columns displayed per page.

Displays each panel’s visual content.

Displays a rectangle around the panel’s visual content on each page.

Displays the image in the panel at a percentage of the original size.

Defines the DPI value of the exported images in the PDF storyboard. The default value is 150. A higher value increases the sharpness of the images, as well as the final file size of your PDF.

Defines the maximum height a panel can have when it is full page.

Makes each new scene start on a new page.

Makes each new sequence start on a new page.

Makes each new act start on a new page.

Displays each panel’s shot name, panel number, and duration as a header.

Displays a rectangle around the panel header on each page.

Displays the total number of panels in the scene in the panel header.

Displays the duration of each scene.

Displays the duration of each panel.

Displays the name of the sequence.

Displays the name of the act. This option is grayed out by default. To activate it, enable the option called Enable Acts in the General tab of the Preferences dialog box.

Displays the sequence name as part of the scenes’ names. For example, if scene 18 appears in the second sequence, it will be written like this: 2-18.

This option can also be set at the same time as Use Act Name As Scene Name Prefix. If so, the prefix for the act will appear before the prefix for the sequence. Thus, if scene 18 from the second sequence is in the first act, it will be written like this: 1-2-18.

Displays the act name as part of the scenes’ names. For example, if scene 18 appears in the first act, it will be written like this: 1-18.

This option can also be set at the same time as Use Sequence Name As Scene Name Prefix. If so, the prefix for the sequence will appear after the prefix for the act. Thus, if scene 18 from the second sequence is in the first act, it will be written like this: 1-2-18.

For more information, see About the Storyboard Structure

Displays the content of the selected caption.

Displays camera motion (such as pan, tilt, or zoom) in the image across several panels.

Ensures the camera movement is included in a single panel space.

Displays transition information (Transition type and duration).

Replaces the panel’s image with an X and the text “No Panel” above it. This is used when there is not enough space to display a panel on the same page. The panel with the image is normally displayed on the next page or the nearest one with enough space to show the image on.

When a scene has a camera movement, this adds an extra thumbnail for the scene's layout before the thumbnails for the scene's panels. This thumbnail contains the camera movement for the entire scene, as well as the artwork in the first panel of that scene.

Displays the panel at the maximum of its height.

Keeps every panel of your printed storyboard the same size.

Renders an in thumbnail and an out thumbnail for the 3D panel, as if the user would have added a snapshot at both ends of the panel.

Displays a transition as a panel.

When using the Vertical profile, displays images on the right side of the page instead of the left.

Displays the camera frame and camera path on the PDF export.

Prints the different camera keyframes on the exported images. The actual camera keyframes on each panel are rendered instead of just the in and out frames. To see this change, enable the Render Camera option.

Displays the hash marks below each camera frame, which indicate the aspect ratio of the camera and the position of the horizontal limits of the 4:3 area

Prints the In and Out camera labels of your camera moves to your storyboard. But if the Display Camera Keyframes option is selected, In and Out will be replaced by letters (A, B, C, and so on), representing each camera keyframe. To see this change, enable the Render Camera option.

Covers everything outside of the camera frames and the camera's trajectory with a solid colour.

Prints the Title Safe Area over the picture. By default, this area is 20% smaller than the camera frame. It is used as a guideline of the area that CRT displays might crop out of the picture. Visual elements such as text and logos should be placed within this area.

Prints the Title Safe Area over the picture. By default, this area is 20% smaller than the camera frame. It is used as a guideline of the area that CRT displays might crop out of the picture. Visual elements such as text and logos should be placed within this area.

Prints the 4:3 area on each panel of your storyboard which has a camera movement. To see this change, enable the Render Camera option.

Includes every caption in the PDF. You can deselect this option to activate the browsing button. Click the Browse button to display a list of all the captions. Select the ones to export.

Includes the empty captions of your project in the PDF.

Adds revision notes as a new caption. Revision notes can only exist on panels that were marked as changed—see Tracking Changes.

Removes empty lines after captions.

Lets you decide how captions are framed. Options include:

• Box: Displays a black rectangle around captions on each page.
• Line Above: Displays a line above each caption.
• No Frame: No frames will be displayed around captions.

Lets you select the font for the caption.

Lets you define the size of the font.

Determines the scale factor used when converting a font to a PDF font (screen resolution versus print resolution).

Lets you set the minimum font size to use when shrinking captions.

Reduces size of captions if they do not fit in the panel.

Enables the Caption Title Font and Caption Title Font Size options.

Lets you select the font for the caption title.

Lets you set the size of the font for the caption title.

Ignores text formatting, such as bold, italics, that may be in the caption fields in the interface.

Prints the Sketch captions to your storyboard. This option needs to be enabled to give access to:

• Show Empty Sketch
• Sketch Height Policy
• Sketch Height
• Sketch Render Method

Prints the Sketch captions even if they are empty. To see this change, enable the Show Sketch option.

Sets the height rule for the Sketch captions:

• Automatic Height: Lets Storyboard Pro automatically define the height of each Sketch panel depending on the available space in the current layout.
• Evenly Distributed: Keeps the same size of sketch boxes throughout the storyboard. Otherwise, the caption boxes are set to fit the content of each sketch independently.
• Fixed Height: Keeps the same height throughout the storyboard.
• Max Height: Enables the Sketch Height field in which you can define the maximum height you want your Sketch caption to follow.

To see this change, enable the Show Sketch option.

Defines the maximum height a Sketch caption can be. Set the Select Max Height in the Sketch Height Policy to make this option available.The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

To see this change, enable the Show Sketch option.

Sets the rule of how your sketch will appear in the Sketch caption.

• Crop: The sketch will keep its original aspect and be cropped if it does not fit the current Sketch caption size.
• Fit: The height of the sketch will fit the height of the caption, any exceeding part on the width may be cropped.
• Stretch: The sketch will be resized to fit inside the caption field and will not be cropped.

To see this change, enable the Show Sketch option.

Adapts the box to the text or sketch and spreads it across the next panel if necessary. When this option is deselected, the caption text or a sketch that is too long or big for the space available in the box will be cut.

Displays a header on each page (except the cover). The header includes the project title, project subtitle, and project episode defined in the storyboard properties.

Lets you enter the size of the footer for each page except the cover. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you select an image (.bmp, .jpg or .png) to display on the header. Scale the logo to match header's height.

Sets the position of your logo in the header.

Displays the project title defined in the storyboard properties. You can find the properties in the Top Menu > Storyboard > Properties.

Displays the project subtitle defined in the storyboard properties. You can find the properties in the Top Menu > Storyboard > Properties.

Displays the filename of the PDF on the cover.

Displays a page number in the header on each page (except the cover). Affects the following options:

• Use Sequence Name as Page Number Prefix
• Use Act Name as Page Number Prefix
• Show Total Page Number
• Start Page Number
• Sub Page Number

Displays the sequence name as part of the page number. For example, if the panels (or at least the first panel) on page 25 are in the third sequence, the page number will appear as Page 3-25.

This option can also be set at the same time as Use Act Name As Page Number Prefix. If so, the prefix for the act will appear before the prefix for the sequence. Thus, if the panels from page 25 are also in the first act, the page number section will display as: Page 1_3-25. In this example, the underscore is used after the act number because it is followed by the prefix of the sequence.

Displays the act name as part of the page number. For example, if the panels (or at least the first panel) on page 25 are in the first act, the page number will appear as Page 1-25.

This option can also be set at the same time as Use Sequence Name As Page Number Prefix. If so, the prefix for the act will appear before the prefix for the sequence. Thus, if the panels from page 25 are also in the third sequence, the page number section will display as Page 1_3-25. In this example, the underscore is used after the act number because it is followed by the prefix of the sequence.

Shows the current page number, as well as the total number of pages of the storyboard. To see this change, enable the Show Page Number option. For example, if this option is enabled, Page 3/7 will display, but if this option is disabled, Page 3 will display.

Defines the first number to start the page numbering. To see this change, enable the Show Page Number option.

If you already printed your storyboard, but have recently added new panels or a new scene to your project, using this option allows you to create a PDF of the new panels or new scenes in your storyboard that can be inserted into the existing print without causing issues with the page numbers.

This option does the following:

• Makes the page number displayed in the corner of the page always display the number in the Start Page Number field, without incrementing.
• Adds a "sub page number" after the page number, which actually increments with every page.

For example: Let's say you have a storyboard printed out, but a new scene was added to the Storyboard Pro project, and this new scene is to be inserted at page 100 of the original printed storyboard. Instead of reprinting the whole storyboard, you can simply print out the scene. In this case, you could set the Start Page Number option to 100, and then type -1 in the Sub Page Number field. This would result in each page in the PDF for the new scene to be numbered like so: 100-1, 100-2, 100-3, etc. With the pages numbered in this way, the printed PDF can be inserted at page 100 of your original printed storyboard, without affecting the existing page numbers.

Displays a rectangle around the page number in the header on each page.

Lets you select any font installed on your system for the footer text in the PDF document.

Displays a footer on each page (except cover). The footer includes the project copyright, defined in the storyboard properties.

Lets you enter the size of the footer for each page except the cover. The value will be written in a way to reflect the set unit type in the General tab of the PDF Profile dialog box.

Lets you select an image file (.bmp, .jpg or .png) to use as the logo in the footer. Scale the logo to match footer's height.

Lets you select any font installed on your system for the footer text in the PDF document.

Lets you define the size of the font.

Displays the project title defined in the storyboard properties.

Lets you select the font for the title in the footer.

Lets you set the font size for the title in the footer.

Displays the filename of the PDF on the cover.