This is still not fixed, please do something ... View more

Hi Doug. CMP author here. We partnered with IPTC to include a Tab that IPTC made, so it's completely compliant with their spec, including pre-defined properties. They've included a Photo and Video version, too. Update to version 2.0.5 to get the latest.  You can now create new Tabs without loading JSON, too. See the new Tab Manager below. ... View more

Here's a script to auto place selected images from Bridge and put them on  Indesign pages. The only problem with it is that on the first page, top row left side,  it places 2 images on top of each other in the same picture frame. Other than that it works well. Any ideas on how to fix the javascript to eliminate the overlapping placement on the first page?   #target bridge if (BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge") { var menu = MenuElement.create("command", "AutoPlaceFixed2", "at the end of Tools"); menu.onSelect = function () { var selectedFiles = app.document.selections; if (selectedFiles.length === 0) { alert("Please select one or more image files."); return; } var filePaths = []; for (var i = 0; i < selectedFiles.length; i++) { if (selectedFiles[i].type === "file") { filePaths.push(selectedFiles[i].spec.fsName); } } if (filePaths.length === 0) { alert("No valid image files selected."); return; } var bt = new BridgeTalk(); bt.target = "indesign"; bt.body = "var filePaths = " + filePaths.toSource() + ";"; bt.body += "(" + placeImagesInInDesign.toString() + ")();"; bt.send(); }; } function placeImagesInInDesign() { if (app.documents.length === 0) { app.documents.add(); } var doc = app.activeDocument; var marginPreferences = doc.marginPreferences; var pageWidth = doc.documentPreferences.pageWidth; var pageHeight = doc.documentPreferences.pageHeight; var x = marginPreferences.left; var y = marginPreferences.top; var spacing = 0; // No spacing between images var currentPage = doc.pages[0]; for (var i = 0; i < filePaths.length; i++) { var imageFile = new File(filePaths[i]); // Create a new rectangle frame for the image var rect = currentPage.rectangles.add(); // Place the image in the rectangle var placedImage = rect.place(imageFile)[0]; // Get the original dimensions of the placed image var originalWidth = placedImage.geometricBounds[3] - placedImage.geometricBounds[1]; var originalHeight = placedImage.geometricBounds[2] - placedImage.geometricBounds[0]; // Check if the next image would exceed the horizontal boundary if (x + originalWidth > pageWidth - marginPreferences.right) { x = marginPreferences.left; // Reset x to start of new row y += originalHeight + spacing; // Move down for the new row } // Check if the next row would exceed the vertical boundary if (y + originalHeight > pageHeight - marginPreferences.bottom) { currentPage = doc.pages.add(); // Add a new page x = marginPreferences.left; // Reset x for the new page y = marginPreferences.top; // Reset y for the new page } // Ensure the frame matches the original image dimensions rect.geometricBounds = [y, x, y + originalHeight, x + originalWidth]; // Fit the content to the frame rect.fit(FitOptions.CONTENT_TO_FRAME); // Update position for the next image x += originalWidth + spacing; } } ... View more

My keywords have been carefully honed over many months, and I would really not want to have to rebuild. By @Annie35257711gkpn     There are other options besides manually rebuilding. Some alternatives are explored in my blogpost here:   https://prepression.blogspot.com/2016/11/bridge-restoring-lost-keyword-xml-file.html   I am happy to take a look at your .txt file of exported keywords to see if I can make them work. ... View more

Hi Chris,   We have addressed the issue mentioned in Bridge 15.0.1. We would love for you to try it out and share your feedback. For complete list of fixed issue refer to: https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/fixed-issues.html   Regards Bridge team ... View more

This script is brilliant!  Worked like a charm once I properly formatted the 2 columns in Excel and then exported as tab-delimited text. Also, lacking file extensions in my Excel rename column, I just used Bridge's built-in Batch Rename capability to add them:   Thank you @Stephen Marsh and @Lumigraphics ! ... View more

Thanks @gregreser !! This is an absolutely amazing super-script and works perfectly (Bridge 14.1., Win 11 Pro). Martin ... View more

I believe the issue is reading from and writing to specific Dublin Core XMP vs. IPTC, which is somewhat baffeling in Bridge. Since there is no specific Dublin Core section in the editor, there doesn't seem to be a way to edit the metadata specifically. For example, it may read from dc:creator and display it in IPTC Core: Creator field - but not if the IPTC By-line field is populated in the file, because it will use this instead. Bridge seems to map older standards as the over-ride or default for most Dublin Core or newer XMP and it can be frustrating. ... View more

Hey gunthersamson, This works! Thank you so much. This issue has been driving me crazy, as I always loved rating images in full screen when it suddenly stopped working. Although it takes 4 keystrokes to rate 4 stars instead of 1 back when I could use ctrl+4,  this workaround is very helpful. Thanks again, and your English is not bad at all. In my opinion it's better than an alarmingly high percentage of English speakers. ... View more

This is late to reply, but have you considered Custom Metadata Panel? It's much easier to configure than FileInfo, its interface appears in the normal file viewer experience, and its forms can be exported and imported for use in groups.  We are about to release a major update, too! Get it on Exchange  You can try the beta with all the new features on our Github page Visit the releases tab to get the beta.  ... View more

2025 beta as stated. I'm testing that and porting my suite of scripts to see if I can use it in production. So far, its still mostly garbage. Bridge 2022 merited maybe a C- but the releases since have been unusable. ... View more

hi im having the same issue but mine is not selected it is s till turned off!!  But everytine I puty a label on an image which i use on all galleries it creates a XMP file and it drives me crazy..but mine is already turned off so now what????  any  other options? ... View more

Thanks for looking into this. I agree that Adobe needs to clean it up, but I won't hold my breath. ... View more

There are several mthods of reading metadata fields, depending on how the XML is structured. Glad you got it sorted. ... View more

Hi Peter Fren, I am using Bridge 14.10 on a Mac Mini and Bridge is running as it used to be, however as per my previous post, on another Mac Mini same specs I have to use Bridge Beta vesion to get back to the original film strip across the bottom and image in the main pane, I am just hoping that my main Mac keeps the original Bridge version otherwise I will have to use the Beta version on that as well, hard to understand why Adobe would remove such a common and much used function from Bridge and force users to use a Beta product when PS works fine in original mode. ... View more

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Well I obviously have no choice but to try and ignore the  thousands of italicise keywords that appear and just focus on the 50 to 100 keywords that I want to use. However it's easier said than done....  and I'm just saying there should be greater flexibility in the way the keyword interface functions ... View more

So ONCE AGAIN the developers at Adobe decide to eliminate something that is very important to us. I have .workspace files that I SHOULD be able to import into Bridge 2024 in a clean install on a new PC (therefore nothing to migrate under the hood), and now these workspace files are useless. I've been a software dev for over 20 years which is why I am so ticked. YOU HAVE TO THINK OF THE END USER, not your "great programming ideas" that are going to expand features and leave everyone totally stuck. The Devs broke print preview in Photoshop a few years back and didn't fix it for almost two years. I make large format landscape prints, you can imagine how that went. Not long into the original subscription model, Adobe didn't put proper measures in place and our accounts got severely hacked. We got so much filthy ungodly spam I had to delete my longtime custom-domain email address. Now, we tell Bridge users, TOO BAD what you saved, we decided to change the format and you can't use the workspace you meticulously set up, so just start over. I've been an Adobe customer for nearly two decades, certified in Photoshop and even on the Beta team for the certification exams several years ago. I have time and money invested because there are GREAT tools, like no other, but when the developent team purposely breaks our User Experience, yep, I'm ranting about it. FIX IT, ADOBE... it's very simple: Put a .workspace import feature in Bridge. </endrant> ... View more

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It doesn't matter. The fields you want to use are deprecated, unsupported, so you'll need to write a custom solution. That involves scripting or using another app like EXIFTool. What you want is not possible out of the box with Adobe applications. ... View more

Ye gads! I didn't even know one could do that! ... View more

Thank you.  I turned that off, and it seems to work now.  I'm not sure I understand why -- it *is* still writing the heirarchical keywords, but it's doing it differently, and the behaviour seems to be as i want it to be.  (Now i just need to go in and reapply keywords to the last six ,onths of images!)  Thanks again for your help.   ... View more

I can't tell you how much I appreciate this.   ... View more

I am not able to recreate the problem you are having. I think the first thing to do is to confirm that the metadata is saved in the files.     Select one of the files and go to  "File Info" --> "Basic" --> "Raw Metadata"  This is the XMP metadata embedded in the file. Look for the <dc:subject> section and see if it contains your expected keywords. You can copy the entire raw metadata text and paste it in a reply here so we can evaluate it.   There are other types of metadata in files. Video files have their own standards besides XMP, but if you saved keywords in Bridge, they should have been saved in the XMP metadata. Once we know what's in the XMP, we can begin to figure out why you are not seeing the keywords.   ... View more

I think the problem is that Windows does not display  the same metadata properties you are using in Bridge. On my English system, Windows uses these IPTC properties:     In your system, I think you would use these properties:   Titre = IPTC Titel Objet = IPTC Beschreibung Notation = Bewertung Mots clés = IPTC Stichwörter Commentaries = ?   Try filling in those fields in Bridge to see if they appear in Windows File Explorer. Unfortunatley, Windows does not allow you to select which properties are shown in the Details window. ... View more

Nice solution @Stephen Marsh  ... View more

Same problem here with Bridge shifting the creation date to UTC time. I'm PST so it should be a -8hr difference but not sure how to change this in Bridge. Seems like there should be a simple solution that Adobe could fix by adding the ability to select the appropriate time zone or adjust based on UTC. I guess on the plus side if its not fixed, if you happen to ever need to navigate or synch footage shot around the world at the same time, then its a nice feature. But for data management on the user's end, it would be nice to just have this be able to synch with the actual time zone used in the camera when the image was generated. Also shout out to jessicamannsphoto for wading throuhg this issue and also thanks to all the comments on setting DST which are less than helpful for an apparent issue that is known in the software. For now just knowing what the issue is is helpful.  ... View more

  "Or is the problem that the numbers (e.g., 0006) do not match the page numbers in the book (e.g., page 6)?" Yes!                                     (batch rename input file sorted by filename ascending) Page #1  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122750_R after batch rename Smith_J_0001.tif   is now Page #1    Page #2  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122755_R after batch rename Smith_J_0002.tif  is now Page #2   Page #3  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122800_R after batch rename Smith_J_0003.tif   is now Page #3   Page #4  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122805_R after batch rename Smith_J_0004.tif    is now Page #4   Page #5  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122810_R after batch rename Smith_J_0005.tif     is now Page #5   Page #6  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122815_R after batch rename Smith_J_0006.tif     is now Page #10  wrong Page #7  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122820_R after batch rename Smith_J_0007.tif     is now Page #11   wrong Page #8  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122825_R after batch rename Smith_J_0008.tif    is now Page #12   wrong Page #9  after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122830_R after batch rename Smith_J_0009.tif   is now Page #13    wrong Page #10 after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122835_R after batch rename Smith_J_0010.tif    is now Page #14    wrong Page #11 after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122840_R after batch rename Smith_J_0011.tif      is now Page #15   wrong Page #12 after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122845_R after batch rename Smith_J_0012.tif     is now Page #6    wrong Page #13 after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122850_R after batch rename Smith_J_0013.tif      is now Page  #7  wrong Page #14 after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122855_R after batch rename Smith_J_0014.tif      is now Page #8 wrong Page #15 after scan in pic_2023-12-21_122900_R after batch rename Smith_J_00015tif     is now Page #9 wrong   This does not happen all the time, it happens intermittently which makes doing this job frustrating.  It started happening again one day so I rebooted my laptop and the problem temporarly went away.  So I'm thinking this is some kind of memory or code corruption bug.  What do you think?   ... View more

@Alvin777 when you say renaming to just .jpg didn't work, what do you mean? Did the new name not save (with an alert message window)? Did the name save but the thumbnail still not show the image? It might be that it was changed but you need to purge the cache in order for the thumbnail to reset to show the .jpg image. ... View more