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?

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

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

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!

It's not Adobe, all computers do this.

Why?

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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

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

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Thanks!