CS4 - What happened to InDesign Contact Sheet Tool?

I used this feature all the time. I guess one is supposed to use the "output" feature instead, but it's useful in many cases to have an InDesign file.

David,
The script takes advantage of InDesign's templating features to do exactly what you want.
The first thing you'll do is create an InDesign template of exactly what you want your document to look like (without the images). In that template, you can set the page margins (the script honors them), and set the styles that control the appearance of the image frames, caption frames, and caption text. You also place static text, such as your copyright and ordering message, as well as your logo and anything else you'd like to have on the page.
To set the style of the image frames, create an object style with the name "images". Some of the features of an object style are control over the fill, stroke, corner options, transparency, drop shadow, feathering, bevel and emboss, etc.
To set the style of the caption frames, create an object style named "captions".
To set the paragraph style of the caption text, create a paragraph style named "labels".
If you don't create these styles, the script creates them for you, so you can adjust all the frames and text just by modifying the styles.
You can also tell the script to directly save the resulting sheet to PDF, and you can set which PDF preset to use when saving.
By mid-day tomorrow, I'll have an example on my site that includes a sample template file and sample output using that template file.
Thanks
Bob

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Getting 'Preserved Filename' to appear on InDesign contact sheet

i'm using Bridge to manage/catalogue a large client image library. On occasion, i need to send out a PDF catalogue of this library. The built-in tool 'Create InDesign Contact Sheet' works perfectly for this, and i've been able to customize it somewhat, using an Indesign template i created.
One thing i can't quite seem to figure out, however, is how to get the 'Preserved Filename' metadata onto my contact sheets as well. In the contact sheet dialog box, there is an option to 'Define' captions, and what additional information (other than filename) is displayed.
Is this possible? When i do a 'File Info' on one of the images, the preserved filename information i need appears under the 'Advanced' category, 'xapMM: PreservedFileName'

Yes, I did. The way it seems to be set up is like this:
Each page of the contact sheet has 6 images, 2 rows by 3 columns. Each image is contained within it's own set of frames with a title. So I'm on a page that has 6 separate objects on it.
If I select nothing and go to the object styles window, and make changes, nothing happens.
If I select an individual image (with its surrounding frames) and make changes in object styles it affects that one thumbnail.
If I select "select all" then all 6 frames on the page (or 12 if it's facing pages) are selected and the changes I make in object styles are applied to the selected items.
But I can't seem to select more than one set of facing pages at a time.
I'm obviously missing something - just don't know what?
Actually, having just tried it again, I DO seem to be able to make some changes to the whole thing... ok - so it looks like I'm not editing the right things in object styles then.
Thanks - I'll persevere and try to figure out what does what - there are so many variations of what you can tick or untick...

InDesign contact sheet is prompting reject or delete file message box

Some of us are experiencing a very weird problem in Bridge CS3. When we use the delete button to remove data from the contact sheet settings window (for ex., deleting any data typed into the Template or Output Options fields), the reject/delete files message box appears. I've watched one of my production artists do this, and it's quite odd. All he's doing is selecting a couple or all files in a folder and then creating an InDesign contact sheet. Has anyone else experienced this problem? We were also able to replicate the issue on a different Mac computer. Thanks.

Lisa,
When I was writing that script, I chose to make it's dialog a palette rather than a dialog so that the user could modify the selected images while the palette was showing.
What's happening is that:
When the delete key is being pressed, the palette to set the settings isn't active (you can tell by the title bar in the window). When it's active, it will receive the delete key event from Bridge, when it's not active, Bridge will process the delete key.
It seemed like a better way to do it at the time. This was the one bad case I can see, and I never thought about it nor saw it in testing.
Regards
Bob

Create InDesign Contact Sheet script not working

I'm using InDesign CS3 and need to create contact sheets for multiple InDesign files. The contact sheets need to have a label with the file name of the document and the page number of each InDesign page in the document.
I tried to use the Tools > InDesign > Create InDesign Contact Sheet command in the Bridge, but get a message: "Selected Files that are not of the correct type will be skipped" After clicking OK, another message appears: "No Files Selected"
I wonder if I'm misunderstanding this script.
I also tried the Print Thumbnails command, but that doesn't allow me to add the file name and page numbers.
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Due to a prolonged, intense project, I'm just now getting back to the problem of creating contact sheets from InDesign.
I tried the revised script that includes INDD files as suggested by Kasyan, and it works fine.
However, I apologize for not explaining more clearly, but what I really need to do is create a sheet of miniature InDesign pages, similar to what prints out when choosing Thumbnails in the print dialog. Except that I need the bleed area to show.
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Indesign contact sheet

HEllo
I am using bridge to bring folders of images into indesign with the tool: “ create indesign contact sheet.”
Indesign brings them in with a double frame around the photos in a particular text format and size.
Is there a way I can change the characteristics of the images from bridge?
I don’t need the double frame and I want a different type format.
I know how to label photos from indesign JS but I was wandering if I can also control the attributes (for example no outside line on the images frame) from bridge so as not to be forced to erase all the double frames and to change the colour of each label etc??
Thank you in advance
HEllo
I am using bridge to bring folders of images into indesign with the tool create indesign contact sheet.
Indesign brings them in with a double frame around the photos in a prticular text format and size.
Is there a way I can change the attributes of the images from bridge?

http://blog.gilbertconsulting.com/2007/06/create-contact-sheets-in-indesign.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/scratchdisk/2007/05/customized_inde.html
4 those who might be interested on this topic, I have found some answers in the above links

Creating InDesign Contact Sheets

I just upgraded to CS3 from CS2.
I am trying to use Bridge to create InDesign contact sheets.
The problem is when I am in Bridge CS3 and go to Tools > InDesign > Create InDesign Contact Sheets, I can not get Bridge CS3 to recognize photos in sub folders.
Bridge CS2 had a "Files" button that would open a window that had a "Include Sub Folders" button. That button has been removed in Bridge CS3.
Any ideas on how to tell Bridge CS3 to include sub folders when creating InDesign contact sheets.
Thanks

It can be a little convoluted from a logic perspective, but search for "filename does not equal" and, to find all files, set the value to something stupid like "#@#@#@#@"
Check "Include All Subfolders". If there's any chance you haven't browsed all of the subfolders in bridge (to build the caches for those subfolders), check the "Include Non-indexed Files (may be slow)" checkbox.
I wrote the Contact Sheet script as a contractor for Adobe. I removed the "Files" button because Bridge actually does a much better job of filtering and finding files than the "Find" button ever could.
The "Find" button encouraged people to not use Bridge to its best advantage. I got a number of emails from folks wanting more functionality in the "Find" button than was possible (via scripting) when everything they needed was available in Bridge!
By the way, I am planning on releasing a updated and more feature-rich contact sheet (for InDesign) script in the coming weeks. Check my web site for it in mid-late October.
Regards
Bob
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Tying to make an Indesign contact sheet out of a few pdf files i have. But one thing that puzzles me is... how do i set those pdf files to be displayed at their natural sizes on the Indesign contact sheet and not the fixed size set by me?

if it can place multple files at their original size without having to place just one per page
Then I don't think I understand you question.
The output panel has options for page dimensions and spacing dimension for layout. If you have multiple sizes for different documents and want to place more files on one page to my knowledge Bridge fills them as per bounding box.
If your files have the same size and you want them at correct size it might be a case of trial and error with options for spacing and document size.
Maybe you can create a document in either PS or InDesign of what you are looking for and create a screenshot so we have a better understanding of your wishes?
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http://creativescripting.net/blog/?s=contact+sheet&searchbutton=Go!

My computer crashed and I have to buy a new one. What happens to my Contacts, Photos, etc when i use the new computer? I do not have an iTunes backup.

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Hmmm, I didn't know the Output in Bridge was there. Need to check that out. Thanks guys for the heads up on that. If that doesn't work out I'll try to figure out how to install the contact sheet. Or, I could just leave CS3 on the computer and run the contact sheets in there. That might be the easiest solution for now at least until I get Output figured out.
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Hello,
Another beginners question, but I promise after this I'm done:
I'm using a script written for Bridge CS4 to create contact sheets in InDesign v 5.03.
When the dialog window opens in Bridge to set the parameters for outputting the contact sheet, one of the option is to give the items on the contact sheet a caption - for this it offers some suggested codes.
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Oh, you're my hero, Bob!!
I didn't know about Find/Replace - told you I was a novice.
What you've taught me today will save me soooooooo much time!
Cheers!
Yvonne

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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.
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> 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?
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