Creating a Contact Sheet of multiple Illustrator files

[R***@adobeforums.com]

I was presently making contact sheets for all my photos from photos hop, when it occurred to me, that I could do this for my vector works as well. I tried to also bring in my vectors through the automated Photoshop contact sheet, but for some reason it skips over files. I was wonder if Illustrator actually has this function where I could create contact sheets of vector files?

Thanks!

[D***@adobeforums.com]

As far as I know there is no automated facility to do this in Illustrator unless someone has written a script for it? It would be fairly straightforward to do it manually by creating a grid (using 'split into grid' for example), creating a background and saving this as a template. Then you can place your vector artwork into the contact sheet template.

Alternatively, if Photoshop is struggling to cope with native Illustrator files as a contact sheet you could save your files in a different format. Have you tried running contact sheet with PDF for example? If PDF doesn't work then you could export them as in a bitmap format like jpeg etc and run contact sheet.

[P***@adobeforums.com]

You'd think Adobe Bridge would be able to do this. But it just starts up the Photoshop contact sheet and stops if it cannot open a file.

[S***@adobeforums.com]

If it's something very useful, I wouldn't expect Bridge to have it at all, or if it did, to run very slowly and do a half-assed job.

[P***@adobeforums.com]

Ha, true enough. I personally really like Bibble Pro for my camera raw browser/converter. But we digress...