simple script request, would fix contact sheet prob
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:05 pm
I really need a simple script made. I ran into the problem of bridge's output option not being able to output folders with multiple sub-folders. In my circumstance I need contact sheets of files which are in sub-folders. (For instance: Sports/baseball/base1.jpg; sports/basketball/bask1.jpg) I need a catalog of the contents of each sub-folder inside the "Sports" folder. To do this on the amount of files I have would take forever, there are about 300 of them, each containing upwards of 400 pics each.
To get around this problem I need a simple script which will do the following:
In bridge you would select a folder (Sports). You would run the script. The script would select the subfolders one at a time (Sports/baseball). Then, the script would select all the contents of this folder and output them as a pdf or web gallery. A saved template could be used to automate the settings of the output window. The script would output this pdf in the same folder, named with the same name as the folder which is selected. So the catalog for "Sports/baseball" would be named "baseball.pdf" and would be located in "Sports/baseball/baseball.pdf". The script would do this for all sub-folders in the "Sports" folder.
I don't know anything about scripting at all, so I would need instructions of how to make it work, where to run it from, but I am a graphic artist and am very familiar with bridge, so I should get it very easily. I believe this would fix my issue saving many hours of repetitive work. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated, I don't know how much work is involved but I think it would be fairly straightforward. And of course, you could be the author of a very useful and needed script that would solve a lot of people's issues with the bridge output menu.
To get around this problem I need a simple script which will do the following:
In bridge you would select a folder (Sports). You would run the script. The script would select the subfolders one at a time (Sports/baseball). Then, the script would select all the contents of this folder and output them as a pdf or web gallery. A saved template could be used to automate the settings of the output window. The script would output this pdf in the same folder, named with the same name as the folder which is selected. So the catalog for "Sports/baseball" would be named "baseball.pdf" and would be located in "Sports/baseball/baseball.pdf". The script would do this for all sub-folders in the "Sports" folder.
I don't know anything about scripting at all, so I would need instructions of how to make it work, where to run it from, but I am a graphic artist and am very familiar with bridge, so I should get it very easily. I believe this would fix my issue saving many hours of repetitive work. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated, I don't know how much work is involved but I think it would be fairly straightforward. And of course, you could be the author of a very useful and needed script that would solve a lot of people's issues with the bridge output menu.