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

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    • #14358932

      Hi,

      I’ve already searched the forum and didn’t find a topic for my issue. Last night everything was good with all thumbnails of .INDD files pages for a book file and I just moved some .INDD files and then update all numbers from the “Book” panel, finally saved the file and close the InDesign. Today when I started to work on it and open the book file in the Adobe Bridge, I saw some of the .INDD files don’t have a preview in the “Content” window, but the rest are okay. I don’t understand why some .INDD files don’t have preview today and guess this issue is related to moving some files in the book panel last night and re-number automatic operation.
      For this case, sometimes I opened some files directly in Adobe Bridge, and sometimes I opened some files from the “Book” panel of Adobe InDesign and didn’t edit or modify in another app.
      Now; how to fix this issue and why this happens for just some of them and how to bring back a preview for those in the “Content” window like befoer?

      Best,
      Masoud

    • #14358941
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Masoud, I think you have asked this same question before… maybe even 2 times before! I think you can click on your name (here in the forum) and then click “Topics Started” to see your previous posts.

      For example, see these answers:

      The “Preview Window” of Adobe Bridge; doesn’t show all pages of a .indd file?


      and

      Adobe Bridge just show first two-pages of every .indd


      and
      this blog post:

      Previewing InDesign Files – CS5 Redux

      • #14358949

        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

    • #14358952
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Oh! Thank you very much for explaining the difference. I see now. It sounds like maybe it is a Bridge icon cache problem? I am not sure.

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