Displaying Thumbnails of Spreads Instead of Pages of InDesign Documents

[Trevor:]

Hi

I am looking to have thumbnails produced

Thumbnails embedded in Indesign documents are embedded as individual pages, the amount of pages embedded can be set on a document level.

Someone asked on the ID scripting forum if it would be possible to view in Bridge thumbnails of spreads instead of pages.

To do this one could have ID embed thumbnails of the spreads, BUT this would be really quite tough and involve making a difficult c++ plugin that would take quite a lot of time as the api doesn't include the methods needed.

The other option would be to script Bridge to display the embedded page thumbnails next to one another instead of one at a time.

One hitch is that bridge would have to detect if the thumbnails are coming from the same thread.  Maybe that could be achieved by embedding some meta data in the ID document.

I faked this screenshot with fireworks by mistake I did it on a pdf doc instead of an ID one but the idea is the same.

Does any know if this is doable?

Thanks

Trevor

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I doubt it very much. But if you could extract the pages as jpg's you should be able to stack them.

[Trevor:]

Thanks Phillip

I don't think stacking the generate jpegs would help in this case.

Trevor