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Hi All,

I uploaded some 300 dpi food labels that print perfectly from the individual record. Clean and crisp. They measure 4.247"h x 4.027"w and I want them to print four-up on a letter-size page via PDF. We currently do this with our Access but are transitioning to Airtable.

In Photoshop these show up as 1274px h x 1208px w. I tried setting both the record size and the field size (for the graphic) to these dimensions in Page Designer.

Then, I selected Print Records in a Specific View to PDF. The labels were huge (one per letter-size page) and very pixelated.

I looked at the AT record settings for an index card, which was in the ballpark while not exactly the same size as our labels. They, surprisingly, were only 327px x 545px. So I calculated the ratio of pixels to inches and applied that to get the dimensions for our labels of 447px w x 472px h and entered those dimensions to the record and graphic size.

Print setting:
Records in a Specific View
Grid
Letter Size- Portrait

They print four-up; however, the label resolution is poor, and when I try to print to paper, it shows the document size to be 9.7"w x 12.5"h.

It seems like this should be simple to format. What am I missing?
Suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately, you can’t control the resolution of printing from Page Designer, and Page Designer can’t be automated in any way,

If you want to automate the process of creating a high-resolution PDF file from Airtable, you would need to turn to a 3rd-party app for that.

Here are a few popular 3rd-party apps for automatically generating PDF documents from Airtable:

  1. DocuMint — the original document creation app for Airtable. Creates PDF files.
  1. DocsAutomator — creates Google Docs documents or PDF files. 
  1. Make’s integrations — which can be integrated with any PDF app on the market, such as PDFFiller for filling out pre-existing PDF forms.

    If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one way that you can instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.
     
  2. Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable — Fillout lets you automatically generate custom PDF files from a form submission.

    I show off this feature on this Airtable podcast episode:

    Using Fillout to create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.

Hope this helps!

If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with this or anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld


Mhmmmm it does not seem to be a pdf generation issue (in any case, for further context for Soctt’s item 4 above you might want to take a look at this video) but a resolution and page size issue. I’ll try to play around with the issue on my side and get back to you :D

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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