Spread view for InDesign docs in Bridge

Question

I'm still looking for a way to get that feature back (until CS4). But it seems that there is no script or plugin that can do the job of telling ID to save spreads as previews instead of the useless single pages. The fun thing is, that ID knows that pages are single pages or spreads but ignores it, when it comes to save the previews for Bridge. Just annoying. Please Adobe make up your mind!

Answer 1

Here is how we work:
We create brochures for a furniture store. We are 6 designers, 1 image editor and 6 photographers who work parallel on the same project. We use Bridge to browse and stay up to date. Each spread is a separate InDesign document. A brochure with 20 pages consists of 11 indd-files. The background is that all designers can work on the same project. Every designer has its main resort. But the articles one spread can be from different departments and we need to see in Bridge the whole spread to see it. Ready pages are visually marked in the document for the image editor, so he sees where pictures need to be retouched. Now with single pages he sees only have of its work. Also it was good to browse through old brochures to look for special marketing layouts and to generally get a feel during designing if it looks "nice". Exporting PDFs is on our network architecture a time consuming procedure, since all elements are stored on different network shares. The whole process of creating the brochures takes place on servers. We are not allowed to store any data on our local machines. Due to the fact that all data needs to backed up and there ware always persons who "forget" to put its daily work back on the server.