Star ratings in Bridge, contact sheet in InDesign

If i add star ratings to photos in Bridge, can I include them in my InDesign contact sheet using Tools>Indesign?

Hi DeNoveau,
I was struggling with this same issue. I found a solution that is somewhat helpful. Not ideal but better than nothing.
1. Create the InDesign contact sheet as you normally would.
2. Choose Window > Automation > Scripts
3. In the Javascript folder, find LabelGraphics.jsx
4. In the panel that comes up, choose File Path
That should do it. As I said, not ideal but better than nothing.

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Hi DeNoveau,
I was struggling with this same issue. I found a solution that is somewhat helpful. Not ideal but better than nothing.
1. Create the InDesign contact sheet as you normally would.
2. Choose Window > Automation > Scripts
3. In the Javascript folder, find LabelGraphics.jsx
4. In the panel that comes up, choose File Path
That should do it. As I said, not ideal but better than nothing.

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Hi all
Im trying to make a contact sheet of eps files in Bridge, but the quality of the eps' in the final contact sheets are terrible. It doesnt appear to be a dpi issue, more that it appears Bridge is some how using a proxy image instead of the original files to produce the pdf contact sheet. The images look like Quark when the image is missing, jagged and nasty etc.
I have played around with the settings in Bridge as much as it will let me, quality as high as it will go etc. but it doesnt give me the usual pdf creation dialogue box. Do i need to change the settings of the eps' to get a better quality pdf contact sheet?
Any help is much appreciated.
A.

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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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[email protected] wrote:
> 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?
-X
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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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I would like the caption to just be the filename without the .jpg extension, i.e. image1
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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!
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Open up AdobeScriptLibrary1.jsx in a text editor (Adobe's ESTK is a great one for editing scripts).
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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.
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I don’t need the double frame and I want a different type format.
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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
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I just upgraded to CS3 from CS2.
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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!
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Image autoflow -contact sheet

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