InDesign Contact Sheets From Bridge

[_David_Harradine_]

Im having trouble making the InDesign contact sheets script work from Bridge.

I choose my images in Bridge (not raw files) I select Tools > InDesign > contact sheet

I get all the options for rows and columns and page size and so forth, which I set up and hit ok. Then I get a window saying Generating Contact Sheet, starting and the beach ball spins and spins.

Eventually it gives up and Im still in Bridge with no contact sheet, InDesign is open at the time.

Have tried restarting apps and computer with no change.

G4 PB 1000Ghz / 1.25ram / OSX 10.4.2 / CS2 Premium / Bridge 1.0.2

Thanks,

[_Robert_Stucky_]

Hi David,

We're working this problem right now. Hope to have a definitive answer for you soon. For some reason, it seems that ID doesn't want to receive bridgetalk messages.

We sure could use the following info:

Machine Locale (US English, International English, Spanish...)
CS2 Installed Locale (US English, International English, Spanish...)

Was update 1.0.1 installed at any time (even if it was uninstalled)?

Bob
Adobe WAS Scripting

[_David_Harradine_]

Hi Bob

I've just put a new HD in to my power book, 40G to 100G, but it happened on both systems.

Old system was Australia/US English/ Bridge 1.0 to 1.0.1 to 1.0.2

New system is Australia/US English/ Bridge 1.0 straight to 1.0.2

It seems to work in Russell Browns movies ?

Hope this helps,

Dave

[_Theora_Gibson_]

I realize this is a little thread necromancy, but I'm having the same problem. To the best of my knowledge we bypassed version 1.0.1 (since we just got CS2 last year.) Our machine is U.S English while our CS2 appears to be International English since InDesign keeps trying to make us use British spellings. Was this resolved in an update? We're currently using Bridge 1.0.4.6 and InDesign 4.0.5.

[Bob Trent]

In view of the fact that Theora hasn't had a reply I imagine she is correct in suggesting this thread is necromantic but hopefully somebody will see this.

Bridge CS2 (1.0.3.106) for Mac (OSX Leopard) - I just would like to change the default setting when making anInDesign (CS2) contact sheet from US letter to A4, be able to change the page margins from 12.5mm to 10mm and the font in the 'labels' style sheet.

Is this possible or is it all in the script?

Thanks.

Bob

PS - Theora - I have the opposite problem with the dictionary/spelling - ID seems to choose US English over the original more often than not.

[Bob__Adobe_Engineer]

For those with the "spinning but not working" problem, try resetting your app preferences on both Bridge and InDesign. It appears that the underlying communications between the apps isn't happening.

For Bob:

You'll have to edit the script.

Change lines 1399-1410 to

ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.measurementUnits = "Millimeters";
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.initialUnits = "Millimeters";
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.units = "MeasurementUnits.MILLIMETERS";
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.pageSize = ContactSheet.strings.pageSizeA4;
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.width = "210 mm"; ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.height = "297 mm";
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.facingPages = false;
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.margins = {};
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.margins.top = "12.5 mm";
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.margins.bottom = "12.5 mm";
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.margins.inside = "12.5 mm";
ContactSheet.config.pageSetup.margins.outside = "12.5 mm";

You always have control of the label font/styles. But you need to set those up in InDesign. Create an InDesign template that has matching style names to the ones the script creates. If they exist in the ID template, the script will use them.

Regards

Bob

[Bob Trent]

Thanks very much Bob.

[_Konstantin_by_]

Thanks Bob

Good Luck.
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