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I just installed CS4, and get the following when trying CTRL-R: "Camera Raw editing is not enabled. Camera Raw editing requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature." What the heck qualifying product is supposed to be launched, and how can I enable RAW in Bridge?

Hi,I dont know if it is possible to do this in Bridge CS5, but I suspect that it really should be possible so I ask, hoping that someone can enlighten me.I maintain a few jQuery-driven image galleries whith frequent turnaround (images come and go, or are just changed a little bit, or their titles/dimensions are altered). Each gallery is based upon an HTML list with each image along with its thumbnail being held inside a list item, like so:<li><a href="gallery/olja/images/11-O-3.jpg"><img src="gallery/olja/thumbnails/11-O-3.jpg" alt="Januari" width="75" height="53" border="0"/></a></li>Since I often do things with the images, I would like to be able to do all image processing in Bridge assigning titles, cropping, etc., and then being able to select some images in the source folder, where images are too large to be used in the gallery and have bridge automatically do the following:1) (this step is actually optional, I could do this myself in Photoshop if it

I've tried everything I can think of to make OnLocations Metadata 'comments' and 'description' show up in the content panel of Bridge.   Do I need to pay someone to write a script for this?   I have my camera folk commenting relevant data in those fields, but I'm not seeing how to put it into a column in Bridge.  I do understand that this info shows up in the metadata panel under IPTC (IIM, legacy) and IPTC Core... but that doesn't help me scan an entire directory for comments at a glance.    Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated...Thanks in advance,David

When creating an HTML Web Gallery (using  ‘Lightroom’ template), Bridge CS5 renames the thumbs and large images to  an arbitrary number.  The caption reads as the original file name, but  the actual image has a new name.  This is problematic, as my clients  will right-click selected images from my galleries to save and forward  for approval, but the file name is not the same as the original.As an example: VLNK0321.jpg  is renamed as _4856316150.jpg.  (In Preferences/Output, the "Convert  multi-byte file names to Full ASCII" is unchecked.) Is  there any way to fix this little (for me--BIG) problem?  Can the script be altered to keep the original file name, not the ten-digit arbitrary number that it currently generates?  Thanks for any help offered!

ok so i started to work with actions and scripts and im ready to use them in bridge to be more productive. Before when i had bridge open i could see the actions for other programs, but now i can't (just bridge actions) I opened the startup script window and it said all were checked, even unchecked closed and opened and rechecked all boxes and still nothing

I have a folder that contains 4 subfolders and in total 2500 jpg'sIn this folder I would like to find 800 filenames that I have in an excel sheet.Example of a filename is: 678211_103.jpg and all filenames are unique.Is there a way to do this automatically?I hope somebody can help...Thanks!

With Perl compatible regular expressions, I can have a regex do string replacement with \1 to represent the pattern to be preserved in the replacement.IMG_1234.cr2 --> YYMMDD_061234_Description.cr2using a pattern such as:IMG_([0-9]{4}).cr2 --> YYMMDD_06\1_Description.cr2This doesn't work in Bridge, and I don't see what "token" to use as a "placeholder" for the part of the string to be preserved.In the above example, the ([0-9]{4}) is recognized, but I don't see how to reuse that placeholder.

PS/Bridge CS5, WinXP/SP3, German editionAdobe Application Manager shows availability of Bridge update 4.0.1Click on the update button in the right corner below (Adobe Application Manager window)Message appears (translated from German into English): "Another instance of Updater is already be executed. Repeat the process at a later date."Reinstall of PS/Bridge CS5 did not helpThank you

Hi, folks--Does anyone, by chance, have a script to take a portion of the title of my images and rewrite that in my EXIF Date Created section?For example, I have a file named 20080603_211330_614012_2838b where the first two sections of numbers represent YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.  I'd like the script to take that value and overwrite the existing Date Created data in the corresponding EXIF.I know I can do this one image at a time using ExifToolGUI, but I'm looking for a script to batch out a couple thousand of these at a time.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks!-Greg

Hi -- I have written a script that launches from InDesign then goes to Bridge. A boiled down version is below. What I am finding is this script works perfectly as long as the folder I am referring to is the last one accessed by Bridge. If it was a different folder, bridge stills fires up and selects the desired thumbnail but then stops. The next time I run it, it works fine as long as I am accessing that same folder (the one that failed the first time). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.var myPath = "C:\\myfolder\\mypic.jpg";var bt = new BridgeTalk;   bt.target = "bridge";           var myScript = 'app.document.thumbnail = new Thumbnail(File("' + myPath + '"));\n';            myScript += 'var sels = app.document.selections;\n';      myScript += 'for( var i = 0; i < sels.length; ++i ) {\n';      myScript +=     'var md =

Hello,I am using the Barred Rock metadata export script for Bridge CS5 but am having some problems with a recent batch of images. Whenever I try to export the metadata from these images, the script skips a large chunk of images.  I can't seem to isolate what the problem is.I've compared fields, word counts, etc. but I can't seem to pinpoint why the script skips 600 images in the middle of the set.  Has anyone else experienced this with the Barred Rock scripts?  I had this exact same problem with the Metadata_BR script and was never able to resolve it.Thanks,Chris

I am trying to rebuild a 10 terabyte archive of images spread over 8 network drives with 1100 directories and avoid the problems of bridge running low of memory.  This process is very time-intensive - it takes about 1 week of continuous processing.   I think the following strategy might work:1. a windows dos script would pass the the full network path name to Bridge CS5 on the command line.2. As soon as Bridge starts, a bridge script automatically and immediately does a "Tools/Cache/Build and export cache" with "export cache to folders" turned off (since all directores already have the Bridgecache fully constructed).3. At completion of the cache rebuild, Bridge terminates.4. the dos script would process successive files in a similar manner.Is it possible to write a Bridge CS5 script that will do the necessary operations in 2 & 3 above?  And suggestions as to how this might be done?

I keep getting errors when I launch Bridge saying "Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read the cache. Please try purging the central cache in Cache Preferences to correct the situation".I purge the cache but the message keeps coming back. I tried deleting the Bridge Preference file but still keeps happening.No doubt it's something wrong on my computer. Always seems to be the case when I post a problem. But I thought I'd post just in case there is a solution.Mac G5 Quad - OS 10.4.11 - 12 GB RAM - 2 internal TB Drives with plenty of free spaceLindaAdded Note: Thought it might be relevant to mention that I also use Lightroom 2 on this setup, just in case the two programs are conflicting.

ExtendScript Toolkit CS4 (for Windows) is driving me nuts. Am I the only one having problems with the way the editor is handling tabs? -- Olaf

Hi,I have approximately 65,000 images for which I need to catalogue filenames and pixel dimensions into an Excel spreadsheet. I am using Bridge CS5, and I can see a field containing pixel dimensions, but I can't seem to find a script that will export this field into a file with the associated filenames. There are some useful scripts that will export IPTC and EXIF metadata, but I really just need to compile the filenames and pixel dimensions.If you know of any scripts or free software solutions it would be greatly appreciated.Cheers.

Hi,is there any hashtable implementation in Bridge's script that can be used? I searched the forum and the "Big G" but all I was found were some words about an old AdobeLibrary2.jsx that I cannot found in my CS5 installation.ThanksKonrad

Hi,how can I get the name/id of the collection I clicked with the rigth mouse button on to open the context menu?I want to run a function on the current selected collection via a submenu commen like "Rename" or "Delete".I only can find a couple of functions to manipulate and create/delete a collection, but no function or object that tells me the current collection.How can I access this?ThanksKonrad

Hi,I'm looking for an overview of all menu identifieres. I only can find single example for the edit menu, or the help menu or such things.I want to add an menu item to the submenu of a collection. Where can I find this ID? And for the case of other menu: Where can I find an overview of "all" identifieres?Thank youKonrad

Hello,I made a jsx  script which generates several layered TIF files which get placed in a  PDF as separate pages.  The script in CS3 used the PDFPresentation function and all was  well.  However now in CS4 since that functionality has been moved to  Bridge, I don't know how to make a PDF directly from the script (which  is currently running in Photoshop).  Also on a more important note, the  text vector data is lost when the PDF is made in Bridge!  It's just one  big raster image on each page - which means low print quality.  Why  can't I select an option in Bridge to include fonts in the final PDF  output?

Whenever I use Dr Brown's 1-2-3 script for resizing images they always resize to 72ppi instead of what I put in.   Any ideas why this should be.   I am trying to resize from 300ppi to 240 ppi.

Hello, I need to export all the metadata from a library of images to a comma delimited txt file which will then be loaded into mysql. Does anyone know of a bridge script that will do this ? thanks kindly for any help.

i just create a 'Image Processor Outter Mode.jsx' script for photoshop and copy to ../photoshop cs3/presets/scripts/ folder.  i can see the menu item list in photoshop file->script->.but can't find it in the bridge cs3 menu. in bridge cs3 tools->photoshop. it only list the default script, image processor for example.i'm plan to search files in bridge and run all the result files with the new jsx. anybody can help me ?thanks.

For some jobs my workflow ideally involves manually sorting the order of a batch of RAW files in Bridge (the RAW file names are as assigned by the camera) and then using a PS Action from Bridge to convert, save, and rename the batch of files. I want to end up with my image files sequentially numbered in the manually sorted order.However, my PS Action automatically processes the files in ascending order of their RAW file names and therefore my manually assigned file order in Bridge is lost.Is there a script (or other method) which will allow me to run a PS action from Bridge on a batch of files while keeping the manually sorted order for the purposes of the numbering sequence of the renamed output files?My current workaround is to Batch Rename in Bridge a copied set of RAW files as an intermediate step to running my PS Action on the renamed RAW file copies. It's not a bad workaround but if there is an easier way, I would much appreciate knowing about it!Geoff

Hi,i know there exists some scripts which can be run in Photoshop for example (inside CS) and get the selected files inside bridge.but i want to write a program (let say with Delphi, or .Net or ....) and i need to get the list of the file(s) which are selected in Bridge, so i don't think that i can use those existing scripts since my programs is running outside of the CS world.does some one know a how ?!Thanks,