15 minutes and already missing Output Module in Bridge CC!

This just to add my voice to the wishes, pleads and requests for Adobe to please! bring Bridge back so its essential output operations are working. The "possible issues" points posted in the AOM install link do not solve the trouble. LR is not the solution (and I'm a photographer).

These difficulties will see me explore the market place again for alternatives. A pity, as really I am / was happy with the overall direction of Adobe the last years and would love to stay on board with CC my centrepiece workstation. I agree with other users' comment that it seems you fail to understand your users' need (also photographers') and the true benefits of Bridge over LR.

I'm also missing this feature, but as Omke points out, Adobe is currently working on it. No idea why would they remove it, but I saw this video: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-julieanne-kost/should-i-use-lightroom-or-bridge/ (I know is a Lightroom vs Bridge workflow video) where Julieanne Kost talks about the reasons why Adobe made Bridge in the first place, for me it shed some light on Adobe's POV on Bridge.

This... makes me so sad. The whole reason I use Bridge is because we create contact sheets on a daily basis. A few minutes ago I tried creating a contact sheet using the way Adobe now suggests, by going through photoshop, but it took... well it took long enough that I'm now typing on this forum and it's still flashing away in the background.

Why did they do this?! Adobe LR is not a good solution. I don't upload all of my images to LR (specifically because you have to load them instead of just viewing them... drives me nuts for sorting images on the network). So I guess it's goodbye to bridge, hello to googling programs that make contact sheets efficiently.  /endrant/

Aha... photoshop just finished making that contact sheet.

And I should have made the thumbnails a little bigger.

From scratch we go!

http://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/whats-new.html#community

I can't believe they got rid of it. Really really really really really really dumb. What a waste of an hour today to acompish the SAME task as yesterday.

This deletion is inexcusable Adobe.  Although very Apple like, just deleting something because they feel they know what is best for us and we will have to conform to a different workflow yet again. 

Don't give your customers any reason to look elsewhere Adobe.

Couldn't agree more. It was the simplest and most powerful way to construct a pdf of images that I could find. I missed it within 5 mins - it was the first things I checked!!@!!!

http://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/whats-new.html#community

This is a joke. They gutted this software and called it an "Upgrade". 

I miss this too, but I just leave Bridge CS6 on my computer. So I have Bridge CC for High DPI support and Bridge CS6 when I need to create PDF contact sheets.

Not responding with anything useful, just agreeing with your rant, installed CC this afternoon and discovered the Output module gone, probably the main thing I use bridge for.

I don't want to use Photoshop or Lightroom or other raster related products to output my mixed vector and raster files for PDF contact sheets.

Can we PLEASE have it back?

I've sold my soul to Adobe, please don't make me regret it on the first day!

Any good news in the near future?

Here is a copy of part of the article Lesa Snider wrote on MacWorld.com, it sure gives hope for the future:

Adobe Bridge CC

Bridge CC is now a separate installation from Photoshop CC, making it even less discoverable than before (and you must install it to get the Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop). Also, in order to optimize Bridge CC for “…modern operating systems and display resolutions,” Adobe unfortunately removed some useful, relatively new features. The most glaring omission is the Adobe Output Module (AOM) for creating Web galleries and PDFs. And if you go searching for the Export panel—useful in converting multiple images from one format to another and quickly posting images on Flickr and Facebook—you won’t find it, either. Also missing is the New Synchronized Window command, which let you have two instances of Bridge open at the same time.

Will any of these omitted features return in future versions? Only time will tell, though Adobe says its team is working on a separate, downloadable output solution. While it’s understandable for Adobe to focus its efforts on paid products, that’s no excuse for the emasculation of Bridge. If your current workflow depends on the AOM, keep using Bridge CS6. But if you’re new to the program or have never used those features, you won’t miss them, and you’ll be pleasantly pleased by the zippier performance of Bridge CC.

Here is the link for the complete review:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2041626/review-photoshop-cc-struts-its-actions-filters-and-enlargements-but-leaves-bridge-in-limbo.html