Contact Sheets for Illustrator Vector Art

Is there a way to generate a "contact sheet" PDF of Illustrator vector files that doesn't convert the individual contact views from vector to rasterized?
I use CS5 Bridge now for making contact sheets and the results are too fuzzy to be useful especially when some of the vector art items are smaller than the frame on the contact sheet

Bob, still does his ID script you could see if that does what you want? It's not free thou… Anyhow the link…
http://creativescripting.net/blog/

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Trying to create a contact sheet for passport photos....HELP!

Aperture 3 and iMac are both new to me and after a lot of research, I finally figured out how to make a contact sheet for my passport photo so that I don't have to pay 10.00 for a measly 2x2 photo at Walgreen's. I went to file>print>selected the 8x10 borderless size and adjusted the picture so that I would be able to print 20 2x2 photos on one sheet. PERFECT....but....I don't really want to print it myself ( I don't have any photo paper right now )...I want to SAVE the image I created and upload it to Walgreen's so that they can print it. Then, I will cut out the 2x2 photo that I need. The only problem right now is that I cannot figure out how to SAVE the image to my computer, either in iPhoto or Aperture 3. If anyone knows, can you please help me out with this. OR if there is another way to create the image in another area of Aperture 3 I would like to know how!
Thanks for any help you can provide

Once in print after you have the layout you want select the Print button. This will bring up the system print window (not actually print the image yet).
At the bottom of the new window is a button PDF select that. From that pulldown you can elect to save the print image as a pdf or better yet for your need you can save as a JPG (or TIFF)
Once you have it saved as a JPG you can upload to Walgreen;s

Contact sheet for all pages in a book

In the Bridge there is a command to make a contact sheet for an InDesign document. Is there a way to make a contact sheet for all the documents in a book at the same time?

You may be able to do that with JavaScript (check the scripting forum for help there). Otherwise, I think I remember such in the preflight options. At least worth a check.

Contact Sheet for InDesign CS4 Available now

There has been a significant discussion on the lack of a Contact Sheet for InDesign in CS4.
I have written and, a few minutes ago, released a CS4 version on my site: www.creativescripting.net
Regards
Bob

User Access Control and Pain In The Arse.
There's something going on with the system if the profile check is taking two hours. How much free space is left on the hard drive?
Is there some sort of minimum-required configuration you can boot to, similar to running MSconfig in XP and turning off startup programs and non-Microsoft services? It really sounds like there is still something running in the background that is conflicting. You are certain that anti-virus is not running? I'd also be sure that no browser toolbars are loaded, nor any instant messenger or music programs, and have a local printer, rather than a network printer, set as the default and online.
Peter

RIP software for printing vector art to an Epson 7880?

I'm looking to print several 18x24 inch posters that are 100% vector art out of Adobe Illustrator to my Epson Stylus Pro 7880. Apparently Epson printers don't support Postscript, so when I print from Illustrator my vector lines appear pixelated. I'm now looking at RIP software for OS X that will translate the postscript language from Illustrator but I'm not sure which software would be the best choice. Most of it is out of my price range as I'm just running off a few posters at home. Can anyone offer advice for affordable OS X RIP software? Thanks!

"Apparently Epson printers don't support Postscript,"
the Epson Stylus Pro 7880 is a Postscript printer --and it does support postcsript--do you have the drivers installed?--are you choosing this printer when you try to print your posters?
get drivers here:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?oid=94509&prodoid=63070985&BV_Use BVCookie=yes&infoType=Downloads&platform=Macintosh&x=35&y=9
have you read the manual?
get it here:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&infoType=Doc&o id=94509&prodoid=63070985&category=Products

Preview contact sheets for CC?

Is there any way that previewing what a contact sheet will look like in Photoshop can be enabled? Like when you go to bridge, select the images then go to "Tools < Photoshop < Contact Sheet II" then in the Contact Sheet options there used to be a little "preview" box. Well at least it used to exist, but it might have been phased out, I don't really follow the changes in the updates much.
Thanks in advance,
Me

No. CantactSheetII has changed over the years. It use to have features like Picture Package, layout and previews and bugs. It was a compiled program. Now a days Contact sheet has been re-implemented using Photoshop Scripting. Script are not compiled programs they are interpreted as they are executed. Script run slower the compiled code so some features like layout previews would be painfully slow not useful imo. Picture Package IMO is a bigger lost then preview layouts. Adobe I believe dropped Contactsheet what we have today is thanks to X. He will be maintaining ContactSheeII script for some time how long that time will be has not been made known.

Creating a contact sheet of illustrations using CS6

Is there a way to create a contact sheet of my illustrations (eps files) so that they don't come out fuzzy? If i use bridge they are way too pixelated.

You might want to try what indesign secrets has on the subject :
http://indesignsecrets.com/the-ultimate-contact-sheet.php
and this is what i actually do but there are no captions
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At my office the last version we had was PSE2....Gasp!! The contact sheets were so simple and I've tried and tried to figure out how to do them in Photoshop Elements 9 to no avail. For example, I want to print 10 images (all contained in one folder on our server) - 2 per page. Please please help. I am amazed at how much we relied on that function. Thank you!

As an alternative, you can create your own template:
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Access the rectangular marquee tool, and in the the tool's option bar select "Fixed size", and put in 3.00x2.25", for example. Turn on the grid and snap to grid via View>grid & snap to grid. You can configure the grid via Edit>preferences>Guides and grids if you want to.
Duplicate the background layer, and create the first box by clicking with the rectangular marquee tool. Position the box, then fill it with 50% gray (Edit>fill selection, and under contents select 50% gray.) Select>deselect gets rid of the marching ants
Repeat for the next box. You should now have a document containing two rectangular boxes filled with 50% gray.
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Brooke...
You're in the wrong area of the forum to be asking your question.
This area is specifically for suggesting new features for the Illustrator application itself.
Head up one level to the Main Illustrator forum and start a new thread with your question.
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Installed CS4 and it doesn't have the Contact Sheet for Photoshop

It was under "Tools - Photoshop" and it isn't there. I also don't have it in the Photoshop Automate either. Anyone have the same problem.

Use the Output module. I hated it as first, now wonder how I managed with the old contact sheet.
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Is there a way to export your photo links from Illustrator (CS6) to a contact sheet?

So I've got this project where I'm making a set of images and placing about 300 photos with each set. In order to avoid duplication and to track which photos were used where, I'm having to take screen shots of the links panel (scrolling down and taking another for each batch of images on each file). This is a really clunky way to track these files and a contact sheet would be a lot easier to work with. Is there a way to export the links to a contact sheet in Illustrator?

- select your images
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Indesign Contact Sheet script for Adobe Bridge 1.0.4.6

Our company currently has all the Adobe CS2 products but as stand alone applications and not part of the Creative Suite. Therefore, we don't seem to have all the functionality of the suite.
In particular the script to create Contact Sheets from Indesign CS2 of items through the script in Adobe Bridge.
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to add the functionality of the contact sheet script for Indesign to Bridge without having the Adobe Creative Suite? And Why?
We are looking for something to replace an extension used by Quark to create contact sheets from Badia software. I am loath to upgrade this extension unless absolutely necessary. We receave thousands of photo's a week and output contact sheets for our editors to pick and choose which photos they want/like.
Thanks in advance.
Scott

[email protected] wrote:
> Larry
> for us to process thousands of photos this way would take hours.
Why? Are you talking CPU hours or staff-hours? Does your workflow require heavy
user interaction or is something else the problem?
-X
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Is it possible to change the number of rows while printing a contact sheet in Iphoto? Please help

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Motion 3 w/ Vector Art

Hello all.
I would like to find out what the easiest step by step process is for using 'Vector Art' from Illustrator to Motion 3 is?
Basically, I'm looking to create a 5-10 second kaliedascope effect of a bunch of vector 'layer's from an eps file and create some 'replicator/kali effects.
See www.shiny.tv (lollapalooza) for a sample of the goal.
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Illustrator files can be imported directly into Motion with no issues, and can be scaled up infinitely without loss of quality.
Well IMHO this is not true. Motion does not import individual layers of Illustrator files, only the composited image. To animate individual elements, you have to manually save them as separate files, which, for me, is an time consuming "issue".
And to be precise, Motion imports vector PDF files, and Illustrator files saved with PDF compatibility.
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http://www.motionsmarts.com/downloads/IL2MotionShape.zip
Right now this script doesn't work in Motion 3. The script exports only basic shapes, it does not export more complex shapes with clipping masks.
I think the most flexible script to work with vector graphics can be found at Adobe Exchange:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/
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Michal

I have several issues that I hope you can help me out with. I am a professional photographer with a Mac with OS X 10.9.4: - I can only make ONE contact sheet in CS6 (from AUTOMATE) from pictures indicated in Bridge. If I want to make another contact sheet

I have several issues that I hope you can help me out with. I am a professional photographer with a Mac with OS X 10.9.4:
- I can only make ONE contact sheet in CS6 (from AUTOMATE) from pictures indicated in Bridge. If I want to make another contact sheet I need to shut down and restart CS6.
- Camera RAW: if I change any setting in Camera RAW (except exposure), having first optimized the exposure, the exposure will automatically return to zero. Sometimes when I've set exposure and cropped the picture in Camera RAW Plug-In, the effects are lost just by opening the picture in CS6.
- Sometimes if I crop a picture in Camera RAW, it may be impossible to open it again from Bridge!
- I cannot do lens corrections in Camera RAW, at all. The Camera RAW comment is that "it cannot load the correct lens type". Why?

Are you writing that when you select a large number of images in the bridge like a hundred thumbnails when you then use Bridge menu Tools>Photoshop>Contact Sheet II that Photoshop only produces a single contact sheet for the first few thumbnails and fails to produce additional contact sheets for the other selected thumbnails? Photoshop contact sheet II script should create as many contact sheet as needed for the numbers of thumbnails selected. Perhaps the script is hung or you have exhausted your machine resources.
ACR Crop tool does not crop the RAW file it records crop settings to be used during the conversion process. Camera RAW DATA is not altered. The only changes made to RAW Files is ACR Metadata may be added. Anything you do in ACR can be un-done in ACR. If you can not open a RAW File in ACR the Files is either corrupt or from a new camera ACR does not support yet. ACR should not corrupt RAW files.
If you do not have a lens profile for ACR I think you should still be able to do lens correction manually in ACR.
Some of what you write I don't follow could you post some screen captures of your problems often a picture helps.

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