Preview image in an InDesign doc

Is it possible to extract the preview images (as used by Bridge to preview the contents of an InDesign doc) from an InDesign doc?

@FergyMac – basically a good idea, but you are limited to the browers' pdf viewing capabilities.
So most (all?) of that kind of pdf viewer will not support live transparency (amongst other features like color management etc.pp.).
Uwe

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Why can't I see a preview image when opening files in InDesign?

I have "Always save preview images with documents" checked in File Handling, also with Save As. But I can only see the CS3 ID icon in my folders on the desktop, and when opening a file in InDesign. I'm running 10.4.11. Shouldn't I be able to see a preview image of the first page of an InDesign file?
Thanks!

i think those preview images means that indesign saves a lowres image of every placed image inside indd. So you can open your indd in some other computer and see all placed images even if you don´t have all the original linked hires images transferred with indd.
If you want to see your documents first page as document icon, use Bridge to browse your files. It recognizes a content of indd files and show first page as icon. .

Placing images from Bridge CC breaks Indesign Doc

This seems to be intermittent but it's occuring only when I place images from Bridge to an InDesign document.
I've experienced this bug before with InDesign but now it seems to happen more often when I drag an image from Bridge to an InDesign doc.
After doing this I'm unable to Save the document or undo/redo anything. I know others have experienced this same bug. The only way I was able to fix the document was to close InDesign (and lose any unsaved changes) and then reopen the document. Then I create a new document and move all of the pages of my document to the new doc and resave it. This seems to stop the problem from happening.
This is a serious bug: a) It's hard to pin down what causes it but it seems to be permission related to the document b) there is NO way to recover your unsaved changes, you can't copy your objects to a new document and save it as once the program breaks you can't save ANYTHING.
Has anyone had success permanantly fixing this? Or run into it at all?

Windows or MacOS?
Because in Windows you can circumvent this by using the Explorer. I used to drag 'n drop images (ID CS6) and other files all the time - nothing like your problem so far.

Can I extract an InDesign preview image?

Somehow one of my Tiff images that I use in InDesign has been corrupted. PS won't open it (it tells me that it is not a Tiff file), so the only record I have of the image is the preview that InDesign grabbed when I first imported the image. InDesign shows me the image when I go to that page, but when I try to export or print, InDesign tells me it can't find the file.
This image is not a very important one. It is a simple drawing I made in PS with a few fills and I'm quite happy with the quality that I see in InDesign. So I thought I'd try to export it to PDF and grab the image from within the PDF. Wouldn't export. OK, how about embedding the file and exporting? No go. Print? No.
That is my problem. Instead of me spending a few hours to redraw the image, given that I'm happy with what I see on screen, can I get the image out of InDesign?

Sandee, maybe I didn't do what you suggested. Let me use colours to explain what I did. I clicked on the white pointer, clicked on the image and it was surrounded by a brown rectangle, then I copied (or cut) and nothing got copied to the clipboard. I tried images that are OK, and still nothing happened. I am using CS, maybe that's why I can't copy a preview image.
Do you mean that when you copy an image with the direct selection tool, that you are copying InDesign's stored preview to the clipboard?
I also tried these:
1. Copying the image and pasting it back into InDesign CS. That worked, but I couldn't copy the second image to the clipboard.
2. Cut the image and repasted into InDesign. Again, I wasn't able to copy or cut to the clipboard.
Maybe trying to paste into Photoshop CS is where the problem lies. I'm going to download a trial version of CS3 to see if that works.

Problem Putting Images on my InDesign File

Hi, I'm totally new to Adobe software, but I'm in the process of designing a product catalog for my company using InDesign.
So far i've been able to to stumble through the program myself, despite the learning curve. I do have one question that I think should be simple: Whenever I put an image into my InDesign document, the DPI of the image takes a really bad hit. It's the same size and everything, so why does the resolution get so messed up? How to I persist the resolution of the images?
Thanks!

By default, InDesign uses a lower resolution screen preview in your layout, so it may appear as if the image has lost resolution when in fact nothing has changed at all. View > Display Performance > High Quality Display to get the full-res preview.
That said, the preview has very little to do with the effective image resolution, that is the actual resolution of the image at the size it was saved divided by the scaling factor used when you placed it. If the image is doubled in size, the effective resolution is half the actual resolution. You'll see those numbers in teh Info Panel, and the only one you care about is effective resolution.

Bulk opening images from an indesign project in photoshop.

I want to quickly open all the images from an indesign project in photoshop so that I can save them for use on the web. Is there a quicker way to do this than just clicking "edit in" on each individual image? I am using indesign CS4 and photoshop CS5
Thank you!

You could perhaps use the copy links to folder command (which will change the links in the doc to the copied location, so maybe not a good idea) or package the file to create a links folder (and you can throw away the package when your done), then run a batch on the folder from Photoshop.

[svn] 4673: Adding preview images to the theme directories.

Revision: 4673
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-01-26 12:46:51 -0800 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009)
Log Message:
Adding preview images to the theme directories.
QE Notes: None
Doc Notes: None
Bugs: SDK-17735, SDK-16429
Reviewer: None
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17735
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16429
Added Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/themes/Ice/preview.jpg
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/themes/Institutional/preview.jpg
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/themes/Smoke/preview.jpg
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/themes/Spark/
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/themes/Spark/preview.jpg
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/themes/Wooden/preview.jpg

yes the first bit of code is netbeans generated.
the second piece of code is an fx file that updates the content of the grid based on the users selection.
so i cannot add the image to the grid in composer as its a dynamically generated grid. but ill try and see if i can just to test for now
thanks...

Can you include hyperlinks in an indesign doc. exported to HTML?

Trying to send an email newsletter that has images/hyperlinks and maintains its format.
When you export an indesign doc. into html code will the hyperlinks still work?
If so, what do I have to do to make sure that the links and images work after sending it in email body.
Thanks very much - any help is warranted

Hi, I was just wondering if you got the problem resolved. I'm asking because we are experiencing kind of the same issue in our office. Our Marketing Manager is using Adobe InDesign and exports her documents to PDF. These PDFs won't print in any of our printers in the office. It spools and then gets stuck and it actually makes our HP Coloured Laser Printer throw an error (error 79) and we'll have to restart the printer due to this error. We can print other documents and other PDFs in the printer so we know it's not a printer driver issue. In fact, we have isolated the problem to only PDFs exported from InDesign. Even if we create a blank document from InDesign and export it to PDF it still won't print. Really odd. We would appreciate if you could share your solution if you were able to fix the issue. Thanks!!

Preview Image Exports

Hello guys,
we are using a C++ Plugin for exporting preview images of pages inside an indd document. Often we need a preview of all pages so we are iterating all pages and export every one with the SnapshotUtilsEx and the Draw-Method. Is there maybe a better way to improve the performance for this export, something like a mass export that runs faster?
Thanks

InDesign only stores page previews inside the document if that feature is on in the Preferences, and then only of the page range you select in there -- for example, it's possible to store just the first page. So it depends on the user settings, and is of limited use for your purpose.
But if you feel exploring this is worthwhile, search the scripting forum. There was a discussion a while ago on how to do this, and one of the scripts extracted the preview JPEGs out of ID's Metadata information (where they are stored).
This requires InDesign to be running and the document opened in it, which is not always an option, so I wrote an external program to hunt for the XML metadata and extract the same information from the command line -- see http://forums.adobe.com/message/3483034 (it also discusses a few other approaches).

Performance, minimum bandwidth, thumbnail previews for PDF and InDesign Files with web content viewer

Hi,
We are considering using DPS with a web content viewer for large PDFs and/or InDesign files. The client using a web viewer might have very limited bandwidth (some as low as 256Kbps). We ask:
1 - How well does the web viewer perform with very large PDFs and InDesign files (500 MB+) with limited bandwidth? Does the file stream in chunks and the PDF shows as soon as the first page or two are available, with the rest loading in the background, or does the entire file come down in one part and then shown?
2 - Can PDF and InDesign files support thumbnail previews? For example, one image per PDF page and user can scroll forward and back.
Your thoughts and comments are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-Stephen

Hi Stephen,
The way the web viewer works is that it converts the PDF/InDesign files to PNGs along with additional HTML assets. Assets are downloaded as they’re ready for a given page (e.g. first, page 1 is filled with its assets as they become available, then page 2, etc), so a reader wouldn’t need to wait for the entire article to load. The next few pages are also loaded in the background, so the reader wouldn’t be likely to notice lag as they flipped through pages to the next page after reading the current one. So the lag will depend on the size of an individual page.
For your question around thumbnails, the web viewer does not load a preview image so the reader would need to wait for the assets I described above to load.
Hope this helps...
Brian

When previewing images by clicking on the thumbnail in an Event for example, I've been finding that many images preview in a 'zoomed in' way so only a small part of the photos is previewed in a highly magnified view.

When previewing images by clicking on the thumbnail in an Event for example, I've been finding that many images preview in a 'zoomed in' way so only a small part of the photos is previewed in a highly magnified view.
Initially I could find no cause. Then I tried right click - Edit and on the affected images, always get this warning:
"Image Cannot Be Edited - This photo was previously edited with another application or with an early version of Iphoto. Duplicate this photo to edit it." and a "Duplicate To Edit" Button is displayed.
The external Editor defined for iPhoto is Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Now, I reckon the MUST be others out there affected by this same apparent Preview bug, yet my searches have not revealed any answers. Also seems impossible to find a contact number for adobe???
Thanks

Start '''[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode Firefox in Safe Mode]''' {web Link} by holding down the '''<Shift ''(Mac Options)'' >''' key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?

HT2531 Spotlight lists items and shows preview images. BUT what about showing the location address of an item in my computer. Especially important if I've put the item in the wrong folder and what to locate it without multi-steps. iMac OS 10.5 was more u

Spotlight lists items and shows preview images. BUT what about showing the path/location address of an item in my computer.
Especially important if I've put the item in the wrong folder and what to locate it without multi-steps. iMac OS X 10.5 was more useful.
Old OSX Spotlight function automatically displayed path/location within the machine: e.g. desktop/folder/sub-folder/item.
Can I make Spotlight show the path?

Press option-command and the path is displayed at the bottom of the little preview window. Press command-return and the enclosing folder opens.

Previewing images in forms 11g from the server

Hi All,
i need your help in this issue please
i've just migrated my application from forms 6i to forms 11g
there is a function in my application that i used that previewed images that exists on a network drive that are used in an image gallary
now i don't have this setup as the application is hosted on the weblogic server
i want an alternative method that i can use to preview the images from the server
the old way was:
read_image_file('.\default_image.jpg','any','preview.image_preview'); --this shows a default image if no image was selected
if :search_results.file_path is not null then
     read_image_file(:preview.image_path||'\'||:search_results.file_path,'any','preview.image_preview');     -- this shows the image that we retreived it's name from the database but it exists on the file system
end if;
i've configured the webutil but i don't know what method to use
also another functionality that i lost in the migration is opening a browser window to preview the final article that the editor entered using my application
the old way was:
declare
     url varchar2(1000);
begin
     url:='http://10.100.100.197:55/allcontent/allcontentimages/'||:SEARCH_RESULTS.FILE_PATH||'';
WIN_API_SHELL.WinExec('"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" '||url||'',
WIN_API.SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED,TRUE);
Exception when NO_DATA_FOUND then
MESSAGE('CAN NOT FIND THE FILE');
end;
now ithe WIN_API_SHELL is not working as i'm on the server side and i don't know the alternative
please advice

Hello Nivin
If you want to read an file from local drive or from netwrok drive then before reading images please make sure that do you have full rights and have you mapped that network drive .
after that you use read_image_file built in(). secondly you configure WEBUTIL package.
please visit the following link for configuring webutil.
I configured my webutil package from this link and its worked fine.
http://www.baigzeeshan.com/2010/01/open-file-dailog-box-example-using.html
thanks
G.Yassen

I am unable to get same preview image colors in Bridge and Lightroom

I am unable to get same file preview in Bridge and Lightroom. The Lightroom preview image (in both the Library and Develop) is more de-saturated. But the exported/saved jpegs match. If I try to match the Lightroom preview image to the Bridge preview image, the resulting Lightroom export colors are off. I have tried this with images with no changes and with changes and the result is the same. I have Lightroom 5.6 and CR 8.6. I am using the latest version of Bridge.
I contacted Adobe support and followed all instructions to try to fix but the problem remains. This comment was made after several solutions were tried, including updating Lightroom. :
Adobe: there would be little difference in case of preview of Bridge CC and Lightroom 5. However, after exporting it would be same. Both use different technology at the background and work in a different way. The preview which you see in lightroom is not the actual image but incase of Bridge you see the actual image ( original ). That's the reason there is a color variation between previews.
Me: But how can I then use the Lightroom preview to get accurate colors when processing a RAW file? If I do adjustments to the RAW file in Lightroom it looks different when exported. That doesn't seem to make sense when Lightroom is designed for photograhy
Adobe: Please check in develop module of lightroom.
Me: Nothing changes in the develop mode. The image looks the same as in the preview/Library mode.
This screenshot shows the unmodified images in Develop (Lightroom) and ACR (Bridge). The color differences are significant.
Lightroom exported jpeg file, unmodified from preview image in Develop (which looks like Bridge preview image not the Lightroom preview)
Bridge saved jpeg file, unmodified from preview image in ACR
Any suggestions on what I need to do to Lightroom to make it show accurate colors. If not, I don't see any point in using it to process files.
Thanks, Marie

Bridge is just a browser. It displays according to the embedded color profile but assumes sRGB for all untagged images.
In Lightroom library previews use Adobe RGB and in Develop the working space is Pro Photo RGB.
The real question is why use both Bridge and Lightroom. Stick to one, not both.

How can I see preview images of STN files in CS4?

I save many of my art files as STN (Genuine Fractals) files so I can print on demand at various sizes. I used to be able to see tiny preview images of these files; now, using CS4 32-bit or 64-bit with Windows 7 64-bit OS, all I see in my STN folder is little blank page icons - no images. I have descriptive filenames, but still - it would REALLY help to be able to quickly scan the images for the one I want to open in PhotoShop. I used to be able to see these preview STN images. Help??

Theoretically, to see Sting format (.stn) thumbnails, you'd have to get a codec from the OnOne software people and install it into Windows Explorer as a shell extension. This has nothing to do with Photoshop.
I know of no such codec available, at least not for .x64 systems (64 bit Explorer). I haven't seen .stn thumbnails for a long time, and I currently have their Perfect Resize 7 product.
But it seems to me that a long ago when I used a 32 bit OS there was a time that I could see .stn thumbnails. Perhaps they once provided a 32 bit codec with their product, or I had a 3rd party codec that understood the format.
It would be a great question to pose to OnOne Software. If you do, please report back here what they say.
-Noel

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