Show HN: A tool for arranging photos for home-printing without wasting paper(dj-louw.github.io)
1 pointby beAbU6 hours ago1 comment
  • joaquin_arias4 hours ago
    Love the idea of a lightweight, offline, web-only tool! I’ve run into the same frustration with printing multiple photos efficiently. Curious—how did you handle the PDF layout logic to minimize paper waste? Any interesting tricks with CSS or JS you’d recommend?
    • beAbU3 hours ago
      It's manual layout. There's nothing auto in there. You add your pictures, and then arrange, crop, rotate and resize as you see fit.

      I chose this approach as I reckoned I would know best what I want to with each photo I'm printing: maybe one needs to go into a specific-sized frame while another needs to fit a blank space in a scrapbook or something. Auto-layout will probably get it wrong, which will require manual intervention anyway.

      Click the link and check it out - I have some sample photos loaded so you don't have to upload your own.