Export PDF

Turn a folder of thumbnails into a delivered content manifest.

$The Tools page with Export PDF open: Options set to read D:\Show\Asset Resources and write to D:\Show\Exports, with the banner image Example Show Banner.png and the title Example Show, and History showing a finished run with 12 added$

Method

Export PDF scans the Thumbnails folder, and every folder inside it, for JPEG and PNG images and writes them to the Output file as a delivered content manifest: a title page, followed by pages of thumbnails in rows per file.

When Volare sets up a show folder, Thumbnails folder and Output file default to the show’s Asset Resources and Exports folders.

Title page

The title page shows the Title, the Banner image, Content Overview and the date the PDF was generated. With no Title, it shows the show’s name followed by Media.

Folder labels

Thumbnails are grouped by folder, each group under a label made from the folder’s path inside the Thumbnails folder. The first folder in the path is the label’s Folder line, and the rest is its File line. Thumbnails in Asset Resources\Song_01\Intro_v02 are labeled:

Folder: Song_01
File: Intro_v02

Output layout

Output file can be a file or a folder. With a file, the manifest is saved under that name:

Exports\Manifest.pdf

With a folder, each run saves a new manifest with the date and time in its name:

Exports\thumbnail-export-2026-10-31T16-30-05.pdf

Parameters

Parameter	Details
Thumbnails folder	The folder of images to generate the PDF from.
Output file	The PDF to write. See Output layout.
Banner image	The image shown on the title page. Optional.
Title	The title shown on the title page. Optional.