Preview Spread in bridge

Question

HI
is it possible to display the preview of InDesign CS5 files as spread in bridge CS5
this was working fine in CS3, now Bridge CS5 is showing 1 side preview.
Regards
Jonas

Answer 1

dylw:
John Hawkinson, I am following your lead on manipulating the XMP data. Hopefully I can piece together some kind of Applescript (I wish I knew Javascript better) that decodes the data, joins it, recodes it and puts it back in the InDesign file. If I get anywhere I will post my findings.
Neither Javascript not Applescript are good languages for prototyping this -- reading the XMP data in either of them is going to be more annoying than using canned command-line tools to do so. So you should prototype a solution using easy tools and only later look at seeing if it makes sense to do it in JS or AS (I don't see why it would be useful in JS, but maybe I am missing something).
I'd still like to better understand a workflow that requires the image previews to be in the INDD file. Why?
It's hard(er) to do that, so why do we need to? Have you looked at ImageMagick?
Even if you use AS or JS, you're probably best using them to string together ImageMagick commandlines.
I suspect that writing the data back into INDD may be harder than it needs to be.
Michael:
So, you can see into my thoughts? It sounds to me like you're making an assumption as to the inner-workings of my head. Being misunderstood is the risk one assumes when engaging communication of any kind. It's not even possible to deliberately misunderstanding someone. You either do or you don't. Or did you mean that I understood, but deliberately misrepresented what you were saying?
We use the phrase "deliberately misunderstanding" in English with some frequency; it is perhaps somewhat idiomatic, and more fully means "responding as if someone had said something else" or perhaps "responding to the literal words when you knew their intent was different." This is what I suggested I believed you were doing: suggesting that a different kind of bumping than the one discussed here deserved different treatment. Bumping a stale post that has received no response is quite different from bumping a post in the hopes of escalating it to Engineering.
You full well know that I do not "see into" your thoughts, but I said "I believe." Of course one need not say "I believe" or "I think" before every opinion one expresses. This is implied, but I stated explicitly anyhow. It's my opinion that bumping is both undesirable and unfair, and I suppose you could disagree, but I doubt it. It is undesirable because everyoe who asks a question should have equal opportunity for an answer. No one should ever have to bump their post in order for it to get the attention it deserves. If they feel they need to, that's unfortunate, and, I would hope we can all agree, undesirable.
It is unfair because people who bump are more likely to get attention, and thus answers. So people who ask deserving questions that may be overlooked don't get the answers they should get. That is unfair. I find it pretty unlikely that you disagree with both of those characterizations.
I have some fairly strong opinions about fairness and the optimality of communications fora, which leads me to consider bumping as morally offensive. There is no requirement for you to agree with what is expressed as my own opinion and not offered as a general one.