Image autoflow -contact sheet

Hi all hope you can help I am looking for something like the contact sheet on indesign. I need something that lays out my images on a sized set page that keeps the proportions of the images.
Contact sheet from bridge is good only it resizes my pics to fill the page. Is there some sort of plugin or addon that I can get for indesign that will layout the images automatically filling your page for best fit?
Ages ago at an old workplace they had the exact thing that I am after. I think it was called Auto flow or something like that.
Please let me know if you can.
Thanks

There are numerous scripts that can do this, I believe some are installed with ID itself, though you may have to look on your drive or install disks for them. I also sell "ID Image Catalog" which will do the same and has a UI for all your options.

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