Aperture 1.0: Too Much Space Between Shots on Contact Prints

Note: Update to Aperture 1.1 or later to resolve this issue.

When using certain printers, contact sheets will have large spacing between shots. This happens because the affected printers are using their margin size between shots. You can easily avoid this issue by creating a custom paper size with adjusted margins.

1. Quit Aperture.
2. Open any other application that supports printing, such as TextEdit.
3. Choose File > Page Setup.
4. From the Paper Size pop-up menu, choose Manage Custom Sizes... .
5. Click the plus button (+) to add a new paper size. It will be called "untitled," but you can click on the name to rename it whatever you like.
6. Be sure that your new size is still selected after renaming it, and then enter the height and width of the paper that you will print contact sheets on.
7. Set each of the four margin values to 0, or to a smaller value than it is currently if you would like to keep some space between the shots.
8. Click OK.
9. Click OK again.
10. Open Aperture.
11. In the Aperture Print Preset window, create a new Contact Sheet preset, and set the Paper Size to the new custom size.

This document will be updated as more information becomes available.