Comments on: Missing the InDesign Contact Sheet Script? Bridge to the Rescue!

By: Alexandre Baptista

Alexandre Baptista — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:39:55 +0000

Quoting Lee
“August 11th, 2009 • 5:50 pm • Link
Contact sheet in CS4 not that good, we use the ability to include the metadata keywords and the new Bridge option is lacking this rather important feature.

I’ll guess i’ll hold on to the old Cs3 version until i can find a solution”

Did they find a solution?
I really want to use CS4 or CS5, but strongly need metada in my contact sheet…

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:24:30 +0000

I agree that they had it right in CS2.
I’m a book designer, and the ability to make templates, and customize type, styles etc, is really useful.
I was surprised that there’s no InDesign contact sheet at all in CS4, glad I still have CS2 also.

By: Big Al

Big Al — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:45:18 +0000

“However… this bloke claims to have a script that brings CS3 functionality to CS4 (as long as you’ve got Admin rights on your work PC…): http://creativescripting.net/blog/2009/01/06/contact-sheet-for-indesign-cs4/”

InDesign contact sheet from Bridge worked correctly in CS2. “This bloke” screwed it up in CS3 by trying to fix something that wasn’t broke. Now “this bloke” is charging people $25 to fix his mistake. Think I’ll pass.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:50:46 +0000

Contact sheet in CS4 not that good, we use the ability to include the metadata keywords and the new Bridge option is lacking this rather important feature.

I’ll guess i’ll hold on to the old Cs3 version until i can find a solution

By: Jøhn

Jøhn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:39:43 +0000

The inability to include metadata with images on contact sheets is the real pain in the neck, as far as I’m concerned (not to mention the fact that the whole business was just a lot simpler all round in CS3).

However… this bloke claims to have a script that brings CS3 functionality to CS4 (as long as you’ve got Admin rights on your work PC…): http://creativescripting.net/blog/2009/01/06/contact-sheet-for-indesign-cs4/

By: levy

levy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:32:12 +0000

I really used a lot this feature with bridge CS3 for ONE reason: it was possible to choose which Metadata you need as caption.
Now it is not possible any more. It is a real big mistake from Adobe. I know they are not caring a lot about people who are in charge of printing but why do they delete something which was working so properly?

By: David Wolfe

David Wolfe — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:17:46 +0000

I believe that Adobe is taking a more narrow view of this process than their customers. It seems Adobe only considers “contact sheets” in the context of exactly that–contact sheets of thumbnails of photos.

In fact, Creative Suite users use “contact sheet”-creation abilities of the suite to do all sorts of things. I suspect we are not the only people who use it to create art gangs of all images that appear in a chapter. There are Illustrator files, PDFs, Photoshop files, and even InDesign pages that are all different sizes and geometries. These images must appear in the gangs at 100%. One set of the gangs must be created with a spot color background behind all of the images so that overprinting can be tested on separated files.

There’s no way that the Bridge CS4 feature is going to be useful in creation of these gangs. Luckily, we’ve found a script that does a perfect job of it.

By: Roscoe

Roscoe — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:04:40 +0000

They had InDesign contact sheets from Bridge correct in CS2. Somebody screwed up in CS3 by adding multiple strokes that had to be removed with object styles. Now instead of fixing the screw ups they’ve removed InDesign contacts sheets from CS4. Thanks Adobe, you’ve just given me another reason to stay with CS3.

By: fritz franz vogel

fritz franz vogel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:40:45 +0000

i want to have the contact sheets back because of the linked images. a pdf is a kind of a picture and not a layout as in indesign. i use as well templates for my picture catalogues. and it is true: even cs3 is worse than cs2 insofar as in cs3 are just to many frames as object styles and the position of the pictures in the contact sheet can not be set up as i want.

By: Trish

Trish — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:41:30 +0000

I can’t believe they did away with the contact sheet!! We have different templates for different photos.

Also, how do we add captions to each individual photo? Filename and extension is hardly enough!

This is stressing me out so bad…