Contents

1. 02What it is
2. 04Before you start
3. 05The window
4. 06Getting started
5. 07The idea
6. 08The Floor
7. 09Sequences
8. 10Compare
9. 11Exports
10. 12Your file
11. 13Backups
12. 14Keyboard
13. 15Limits
14. 16Housekeeping

What it needs

Your key

In your download email. Asked for once, at first launch, and checked on your Mac. Keep it: a new Mac asks again. Lost keys: software@filmflamingo.com.

Requires

macOS 12 Monterey or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel.

Takes in

Your images, referenced where they sit. Nothing is imported into a library.

Gives back

Numbered files, a dummy PDF, a spread PDF, or a plain sequence list.

Never does

Modify, move, rename or write to an original. Ever.

Where things are

1

Floor, Compare and Spreads. ⌘1, ⌘2, ⌘3.

2

Grid or Loose, and the zoom.

3

SEQUENCES. Every named order over the one pool.

4

The Floor itself.

5

The inspector: state, placement, note, and the book.

6

The tone strip, and what the sequence currently holds.

Making a sequence

1. Add images⇧⌘I, or drop them in. They join the project's pool.
2. Order them on the FloorDrag. Grid keeps them on a lattice; Loose lets you place them anywhere, the way prints sit on a floor.
3. Mark what is inIn, Out or Maybe, per image, per sequence. Pin the ones that must not move.
4. Branch and compareDuplicate the sequence, cut it down, and put the two orderings side by side.

One pool, many sequences

Every sequence holds an entry for every image in the pool, in its own order, with its own state, pin, placement and note. Shorter is not a different set of files. It is the same pool with fewer images marked In.

The Floor

Grid and Loose

Grid snaps to a lattice. Loose stores positions in cell units, not points, so zooming scales an arrangement instead of scattering it.

Bigger and Smaller

⌘+ and ⌘−. Zoom scales the whole arrangement, gaps included, so a loose layout keeps its proportions instead of scattering.

Tone strip

The sequence's tonal run, read left to right, for spotting a jump you cannot see while looking at one picture.

Rhythm

The shape of the sequence as a whole.

Loupe

A close look without leaving the Floor.

Working a sequence

Blanks

Insert a blank page where the book needs air. It lives in the running order like anything else.

Section breaks

Titled, and they carry through to the pagination.

Shuffle the unpinned

⇧⌘R. Pins hold, everything else re-rolls. Or shuffle into a new sequence and keep the one you had.

Duplicate

Carries the In, Out and Maybe states across, so a branch starts from the edit you had.

Undo

Covers every destructive action, shuffles and deletions included.

Compare and Spreads

Compare

⌘2. Two sequences side by side, with the divergence between them shown rather than left to your eye. A run that works in one can be promoted into the other.

Spreads

⌘3. The sequence paginated into pages and spreads, honouring trim, whether the book starts on a recto, and every blank and section break.

Spread notes

Per spread, kept with the sequence.

Four ways out

Numbered files

Copies of the originals, numbered in sequence order. This is the only function that touches an original, and it opens the file read-only to copy it.

Dummy PDF

The book as a dummy, to print and fold.

Spread PDF

The spreads as laid out.

Sequence list

Plain text. The filenames, in order, readable by anything.

Backups

Twelve generations

One written on every open, one every five minutes of work, labelled so a choice between twelve timestamps has something besides the timestamp to go on.

Kept in

Application Support, not beside your project. Choosing a file in a save panel grants that file and not its folder, so backups written next to it would stop working the day the app is sandboxed.

Restoring

In the inspector, under Advanced. It lists other projects' backups as well as this one's, and the restore is itself undoable.

Menus and keys

• ⌘N / ⌘ONew Project / Open
• ⇧⌘IAdd Images
• ⌥⌘I / ⌥⌘M / ⌥⌘OMark In / Maybe / Out
• ⌥⌘PPin or Unpin
• ⇧⌘N / ⌘DNew Sequence / Duplicate Sequence
• ⌘[ / ⌘]Previous / Next Sequence
• ⇧⌘RShuffle the Unpinned
• ⌘1 / ⌘2 / ⌘3Floor / Compare / Spreads

What it does not do

• It never modifies, moves, renames or writes to an original. After an export your files are byte for byte unchanged, with the same modification dates.
• No network code of any kind. Help › Check for Updates opens a page in your browser when you ask it to, and nothing fetches a feed on a timer, which is the part of an updater that would disclose your address and the version you are running.
• It is not an image editor. There is no adjustment, no crop, no develop.
• It does not manage your files. Images are referenced where they sit, and a moved folder is relinked rather than re-imported.

Where things live

Your project

Wherever you saved it. A .floorprints JSON file.

Backups and caches

In the app's own Application Support and Caches folders.

Your images

Exactly where they were. Referenced by security-scoped bookmark, so a sandboxed build still finds them on a cold relaunch.