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p.1 #1 · Annoying CS3 problem

Went to print a large contact sheet from CS3 on roll paper (17x42) and discovered that if you have pictures numbered like Dog 1, Dog 2 and so forth it aligns them as Dog 1, Dog 10-19 then Dog 2 the 21-29 then Dog 3 etc.

Guess I'll rename the lot but what a PITA---and why?

Nov 04, 2009 at 04:05 AM

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p.1 #2 · Annoying CS3 problem

It's not the fault of Photoshop, but the operating system and naming conventions that probably go back to DOS.

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Nov 04, 2009 at 04:14 AM

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p.1 #3 · Annoying CS3 problem

Geeez...use 01, 02. How hard is that? It's not Adobe, all computers do this.

Nov 04, 2009 at 12:57 PM

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p.1 #4 · Annoying CS3 problem

rhyder wrote:
Geeez...use 01, 02. How hard is that? It's not Adobe, all computers do this.

It's not hard - so long as you think about it before you are ready to print!

Nov 04, 2009 at 06:40 PM

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p.1 #5 · Annoying CS3 problem

It's not Adobe, all computers do this.

Why?

Nov 05, 2009 at 04:16 AM

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p.1 #6 · Annoying CS3 problem

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Nov 05, 2009 at 07:00 AM

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p.1 #7 · Annoying CS3 problem

The file names aren't numbers. They are text to the computer, so that is why they end up sorted the way they do.

Think of it in terms of A, B, C and then you have AA, BB, CC, that gets sorted as A, AA, B, BB, C, CC

So, 1, 2, 3, 11, 22, 33 interpreted as text gets sorted 1, 11, 2, 22, 3, 33

Finally, the solution is to use leading zeros when naming the files during import. Then you end up with 01, 02, 03, 11, 22, 33

Nov 05, 2009 at 07:11 AM

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p.1 #8 · Annoying CS3 problem

rhyder wrote:
00101001100

Reminding one of the fact there are ten types of people in the world - those who understand digital and those that don't.

Nov 05, 2009 at 07:18 AM

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p.1 #9 · Annoying CS3 problem

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Thanks!

Nov 05, 2009 at 07:41 PM


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