Reply To: Some pages don’t have a preview in Adobe Bridge, just show InDesign icons?!

Hi David,

David, this new question I wrote here is similar to those questions, but it’s different and I’ll explain it clearer, but yes; you right, those two questions you mentioned and post their links, are repetitive and we talked about them and I confessed in the second one (newer one) that I asked it more than once in the older time; because I didn’t search the forum before asking for the second one, and I apologized for that! Maybe one of those should be deleted by a moderator.

The old question was about the showing number of pages of a file that has more than 2 pages (for example 20 pages), but just I could see the first two-pages, not the rest pages in the “Preview tab” and its setting in the Edit > Preferences > File Handling path that Eugene taught me and Steve Werner article described in detail.

But this question I asked here; is about previews of .INDD files in the “Content” window (central window); not the “Preview” window (mini Bridge), and instead of previewing the first page as a default in this window, just show InDesign app icon for some of them. (in my case 16 of 280 .INDDs).

I saved my document after I asked here and now I open the book file and check out the.INDDs files in the Bridge, they’re okay and all of them have their preview in the “Content window”. I’ve experienced this small issue a few times and I don’t know what it caused and why they were fixed after I save them and closed ID and Adobe Bridge?!

I didn’t modify and touch the ” File Handling” section, just as I said in the first, I moved some files in the book panel and re-numbered again from the pop-up menu of the book panel, and produce this issue. Also, those 16 .INDD files lost their label (the label I named “Almost complete”) and they got an “unknown” name label and I had to give the original label to them again, but this work didn’t fix their preview in the “Content” window until I saved everything and close ID and the Bridge and now everything is fine with preview!

Best,
Masoud