Comments on: Better InDesign Contact Sheets

By: Dolores

Dolores — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:59:29 +0000

I too wanted a contact sheet showing my InDesign layout work as it progresses. Went to Bridge and under TOOLS in the menu I do have InDesign Contact Sheet. Somehow it doesn’t work the way I wanted it to - it keeps telling me that I haven’t selected the right files when in fact I have.
An alternate solution: change your indesign layouts to jpgs by going to File>export. Here you can select the format for your document. I make a separate folder and send all of them to it so I can now go to Photoshop and make a contact sheet like I originally wanted! Lot of work for something that Adobe said could be done out of the box in Bridge…what gives??

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:12:36 +0000

I would love to have a better way of creating contact sheets from multi-page InDesign docs.

If anybody has a good solution they would be willing to either share or even sell me. Please get in touch.

Phil
phil at phoenixedit dot com

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:02:04 +0000

Hit submit too soon.

For those that have the full suite, check your preferences under startup scripts and make sure the InDesign scripts are enabled.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:59:19 +0000

I have no way to check here but those scripts, if I remember correctly, are only included in Bridge with the full suite.

By: Ginni

Ginni — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:54:49 +0000

I just now learned about this contact feature using Bridge and InDesign, but like everyone else - it is not available to me under the Tools menu in Bridge, and the actual Script folder in the library is empty. Did anyone ever get an answer to this mystery? I’ve found, and posted to, the same problem on an Adobe forum, but have not gotten any answers or help.

By: mary

mary — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:43:39 +0000

No one seems to want to take on the mystery of not finding InDesign (or any other) application in the Bridge tools menu. I have Creative Suite 3 Design Premium (Mac), and I don’t see it, tho I could swear I have seen it before–that would probably be on my work computer that has CS2. Whats up?

By: kristin

kristin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:20:02 +0000

If you have quotation marks in a file name you will not be able to make a contact sheet with containing that file. Also, files with embedded color profiles will sort separately from files without, ie: they will be out of alphabetical order and placed last in the contact sheet.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:43:14 +0000

Same here, InDesign isn’t listed under the Tools menu. Anybody?

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:34:03 +0000

Barb I. said:
Barb I said on June 25th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
“InDesign is not listed under my Tools menu in Bridge. I own InDesign CS3 and Photoshop CS3, not the whole suite. Is this feature available only to suite owners?”

I have the same issues.What’s the solution?

By: christina

christina — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:54:42 +0000

I am having problems using the templates i created in CS2 in CS3… the photos don’t line up with the template. Is there anyway to fix this?