Is Bridge part of CS3?

Probably a dumb question...but where does Bridge come into play with Photoshop and what is it's main function? Is Bridge part of CS3 or not? I have Photoshop Elements and will upgrading to CS3 when the new quarter starts so I've been reading up and am still confused as to where/what Bridge is!

You know how you can't see thumbnails of Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and
Photoshop in the regular windows Explorer? Well, Bridge allows you to see
thumbnails of these, as well as the regular ones.
Ariel

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Install part of cs3 on different computer

I would like to install part of cs3 on my laptop but leave dreamweaver on desktop...can you split? Since I own the software
I don't see why not, but adobe is very funky about this kinda stuff i think. cs3 is on work computer as well.

You can install and activate on two different computers for a standard commercial purchase of CS3. However, you may not use the software on the two different computers simultaneously. You cannot use Acrobat on your laptop and Dreamweaver on your Desktop at the same time.

How to Uninstall / Reinstall Bridge as part of CS3 Master Collection?

Bridge is not in my Add/Remove programs. It is not listed as an item that I can uninstall or reinstall in the Master Collection setup program. I want to reinstall Bridge. It is pretty much unusable on my XP64 system since the last upgrade. But how can I reinstall it?

Well, Adobe may not want to call it a separate program, but from most litmus tests that I can think of, Bridge sure looks and acts like separate program.
My Bridge would start up no problem. And I had been changing the settings to find anything that might work. But what I had not done, until last night, was to go into the Camera RAW Preferences and change anything. I did this last night. I changed the location of the cache here and changed its size from 1GB to 8GB. This has appeared to have helped quite a bit. Bridge is still a tad sluggish (on a very fast machine with 8 logical processors and 8GB or ram), but it is usable again.
So one follow-up question is what is the difference between the "camera RAW Preferences" cache and the "Preferences" Cache?
My next follow-up question is why does Bridge say that it is finished loading thumbnails (via progress bar) for a particular folder only to restart later or on subsequent returns to the folder even after no changes have been made? This drives me crazy. Just when you think that its finished and you can have your CPU's back, it starts up again and hogs your processing power.

Adobe Bridge CS4 vs CS3

Hello everyone,
I'm taking a class at the college about Photoshop and we are in a chapter
where we're using Bridge.
The class uses version CS4, but I'm using CS3 (the instructor gave a
thumbs-up to that prior to class). I'm in a place where I can't figure out
how to do it in CS3 and asking your help.
Here's the scenario from the textbook (CS4):
1. Open Bridge and click on the Folders tab.
--- Like in PS, there is a menu at the top that I don't have in CS3. Same
here in Bridge. After clicking the Folder tab, the book is showing a screen
where there are headings of Essentials, Filmstrip, Metadata, and Output.
2. Open the .psd file
--- that we were working with earlier in the chapter in PS
3. Click Output, then click the PDF button, then click Repeat One Photo per
Page check box, then click the Refresh Preview button.
--- I'm lost!
4. Scroll down to the Watermark section of the Output panel, click the View
PDF After Save checkbox, then Save.
--- Still lost!
Before I'm troubling you, I spent about 90 minutes looking through menus,
Adobe help, and online. Nothing!
So I'm drawing on the experience within the group to tell me if these steps
are possible in CS3 - even if they are not exactly as described above. As in
PS, sometimes the book shows how to do something and I can figure out a
work-around in CS3.
Thank you!
Gil

I certainly agree with John J. The user interfaces are quite different, and the Bridge Output create pdf function you are asked to do in Bridge CS4 replaced a CS3 pdf fuction performed from Photoshop CS3 called PDF Presentation.
Here's a series of CS3 steps that gets close to what your CS4 exercise looks to be calling for:
1. Launch Bridge CS3 and click on the folders tab and navigate to the folder with the pds files for your exercise. (Ignore the different layout for workspaces et al.)
2. Select one or more psd files in Bridge (thumbnails in Content panel).
3. Still in Bridge, click on Tools > Photoshop > PDF Presentation. This will launch Photoshop if it not already open and display a PDF Presentation dialog box with some choices. The top section will list Source Files, which should show the file or files you had selected in Bridge. In the bottom section Output Options select the Presentation button, and you might click to Include Filename.
4. Click Save at top of the dialog box. You should get a Save dialog box. Select filename and where to save the pdf; then you should see Photoshop's Save Adobe PDF dialog box in which, under General, you can check View PDF After Saving.

Bridge Scripting Capabilities (CS3 Javascript)

Hi -- We have many users at our company who need to edit metadata in images (primarily jpegs, but some tifs). These users do not have access to Photoshop but do have access to Bridge.
I have written a script in Bridge that opens a dialog window for them to edit certain metadata. It is accessed through the tools menu.
The problem is I need to further automate the process but am unsure what the capabilities of Bridge are.
What I would like to try to do:
Currently the user would need to open Bridge, select the item (or drag the item onto the Bridge shorcut) and choose the script from the tools menu. Would there be any way to automate this further, maybe through some sort of folder action, or a trigger when the user drags a file onto the shortcut. Or is there anyway to assign shortcut keys in Bridge to Scripts?
Also, is there anyway to script Bridge so that the files will be copied (and renamed) to a specific folder (again, without photoshop)?
Any ideas would be appreciated. I have not used Bridge that much, so if I am going the wrong direction with this, please speak up. If anyone wants to point me in another direction, that would fine.
thanks

Hello,
I'm a Bridge Quality Engineer.
If you want to write the scripts to auto your cases, please firstly download Bridge SDK and read the DOM API of Bridge. I believe these documents will help you a lot. Please download the SDK from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/bridge/, and read the doc in folder 'docs'. The API provided are described in Bridge CS3 JavaScript Reference.pdf.
After read it, you will find you can call the API to auto the process instead of 'through some sort of folder action, or a trigger when the user drags a file onto the shortcut'.
And you can also get help by launching Adobe ExtendScript Tooolkit, which is installed automatically when Bridge is installed. By select menu Help-> Object Model Viewer, you can get info of Bridge DOM API, and also Core JavaScript Classes and Script UI Classes.
Please check the API of File and Folder(in Core JavaScript Classes), and you can find File has copy() API, by using which you can copy files to a specific folder.
If you have further question, please send it out.
Thanks for support!
BR,
Chun Xia

Adobe Bridge Part Of Photoshop & Lightroom CC Package?

Hi guys!
I bought Photoshop & Lightroom CC a few days ago. The installer gave me the option to download Bridge too and I took it. Is this part of the Photoshop and Lightroom CC package?

Hi,
Yes, the Bridge application is a part of the plan.
What is Bridge? | Adobe Photoshop CC tutorials
Regards,
Sheena

Text effects bridge to AE CS3

HI, I'm using AE CS3 and I've imported some text from photoshop, place it in the timeline,select it, go to Adobe Bridge, select the typewriter fade in effect, double click that and I get:
"can't import file: unsupported filetype or extension"
when I drag and drop it from w/in AE it won't do anything.
what am I missing?
thanks

Update
Ok, Bridge won't work but I can create a new text layer from w/in AE and then drag and drop the typewriter effect directly on the text in the composition window.
not exactly the solution I was looking for....

Bridge EXTREMELY sluggish (CS3)

I am running Bridge CS3. I have a sub-directory with 134 JPG images in it and no sub-directories off of it. In addition to most operations being quite sluggish, when I select 'Click to view items in current folder & its sub folders', there is an EXTREME delay on the order of 5 minutes before it displays the 134 images. Am I doing something wrong? I have a very large disk drive, so I have allowed Bridge to generate the largest amount of cache.
Shouldn't things be running faster than this?
I might add that this delay remains once I return to normal view and then go to the 'All Subfolders' view again. It's no faster the second time around.
Thanks, Gary

I think that YOU have the wrong concept of cache. Having been a
programmer for over 30 years, I can tell you that it is indeed intended
to improve performance. Otherwise, why have it? If you can compute
something just as fast on-the-fly, then why store it in a cache file
that has to be read later?
Much of Windows is built around caching disk accesses to improve
performance.
No, my hard disk is not fragmented...It is almost 100% contiguous.
I did have the cache slider set all the way to the right, but that has
been corrected.
I do know that Adobe is a memory hog...Even worse than Micro$oft! But
it will be a while before I can afford a 64-bit Windows Computer.
In the meantime, compacting the cache speeded things up over 100-fold.
Bridge is still sluggish compared to other programs that I use, but I am
just going to have to live with it with my present resources.
Gary

Using Bridge without other CS3 Applications?

I work for a advertising company, and we have project managers that need access to the creative assets on a centralized server running Version Cue Server CS3. It would be ideal if they could access the server via Bridge for PC or Mac, but obviously they don't need any of the other CS3 applications.
Is it possible to run/install just Bridge? If so, what is the best way to purchase licenses for Bridge if we don't need any of the other CS3 applications?
Thanks so much!
-Lou

You can't buy Bridge by itself.
And what's the point of wanting to view a thumbnail or preview if you don't have the application to open the image anyway?
Photoshop comes with Bridge, so you don't need the whole suite.

Bridge and Photoshop CS3 do not recognize Raw capture

Hi,
I've had problems importing RAW images from my Canon 20D into Photoshop/Bridge. I have downloaded the 4.2 plug-in but it doesn't seem to have helped. I do not get any error messages, only that when I select the source in Bridge, it reads that there are no valid files found on the camera to import. But there are. It is full of RAW images.
In Photoshop, the same thing. All the folders that should contain images to import are empty. It doesn't seem to acknowledge the existence of these images at all.
Any ideas?
Thanks

OK, you know that you REALLY don't want to try to ingest images directly from the camera, right? You really want to use a card reader...
You still don't say what OS you are using...there are known issues with Vista not "seeing" raw files on a Canon camera connected directly, only the jpgs. Copy the contents from the camera/card to a directoy on your hard drive.

NEF files - can't open in Bridge or PS CS3 but can see in camera

Not sure if I'm in the right forum...first time here.
I'm shooting the floods in Brisbane, Australia today and have been shooting with a Nikon D200 and with a Nikon D3.
I have transferred the NEF files from the D200 easily (as I normally do) to Bridge, but am suddenly having problems with transferring the NEF files shot on the D3. They appear as files in Bridge but if I try to open them in PS, the error message is "Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document".
I was successfully shooting on the D3 and using the same card less than a week ago. The only difference is that I was transferring to a different desktop, not my laptop, which I have now. I've recently rebuilt my laptop after a major crash, so maybe there's some simple setting I need to change. But, it's odd that I can successfully transfer and open today's NEF files shot on the D200.
Any help/tips would be great!
Cheers
Marc

Great, thanks Ian. This worked a treat. I'd forgotten that I needed to download that again. Cheers. Thanks for your help. Marc.

Why is AS1 documentation not a part of CS3 help

hello;
in my flash CS3 help, there is AS2 and AS3 documentation, but
no AS1 documentation;
I have come to the understanding that AS1 would continue to
be supported in future flash authoring environments;
any thoughts?
thanks
dsdsdsdsd

dsdsdsdsd,
> I am still not convinced that AS3 is necessary
It isn't.
> just because an engineer can build a 800hp engine,
> powerful enough to thrust a wing-adapted minivan
> into flight
> doesn't mean it is the right approach: do soccer moms
even
> want to fly?
I do get your analogy. Really, I do. What I don't get is why
you're
the one making it -- because based on what you've described,
it sounds like
you're the engineer in this analogy, not the soccer mom.
After reading
Colin Moock's article, I would think even the soccer moms
should find
encouraged, but regardless ... of course you don't have to
use AS3. ;)
If you don't, you're stuck with a different set of
complexities, so it
all comes down to what you're comfortable with. In AS1/AS2,
you have on()
and/or onClipEvent() for handling events. You also have the
dot notation
equivalents (e.g. myClip.onRelease = handlerFunction). But
wait, there's
more! You also have addListener(). How's that for consistent?
Ah, but
then you also have addEventListener() -- just depends on
which datatype
you're handling the event for. If you're a longtime Flash
user -- and you
are -- then each new event handling model was something you
took in stride.
If you're new to the scene, it could seem like a completely
arbitrary mess.
In AS3 (outside of a drop-in-the-bucket NetStream exception),
you have
addEventListener(). Easy to learn and easy to remember,
because it's very
nearly consistent.
In AS1/AS2, if you want to instantiate a new MovieClip
instance, you
have to refer to an existing MovieClip instance and invoke
the
createEmptyMovieClip() method, give the new instance an
instance name and
assign it a depth. In AS3, you just invoke the constructor:
new
MovieClip(), then add the new instance to the display list.
It comes down to personal taste, I guess. To me, the newer
models are
easier to use ... once you learn them (of course). There are
trade-offs in
either camp, obviously.
> if someone could tell me some concrete thing
> that AS3 can do that AS1 cannot
> I would appreciate it;
I'm sure there are more, but here's a concrete thing off the
top of my
head: AS3 allows you to reparent movie clips (and other
visual display
objects) simply by removing them from the display list of one
object and
adding them to another. A practical example that comes to
mind is a jigsaw
puzzle, in which snapped-together pieces stay together,
making it easy to
move snapped-together pieces as a single group. Each
individual piece could
initially belong to the display list of the main timeline,
but could be
moved to the collective display list of a group of
snapped-together pieces.
Not that a single example should sway you. The example I
made might
just be meaningless to you, because you might not be
interested in
Flash-based jigsaws (or you might be interested, but would
rather move
snapped-together pieces by way of some algorithm that tracks
the position
and movement of each individual piece -- again, you're
trading one set of
complexities for another; on the main, I personally find the
complexities of
AS3 worth the learning curve).
> I am working on my first AS3 project - shopping cart -
but
> I will not use external packages );
And you shouldn't, unless you feel that external classes
would help you.
For me, I like the idea of utility classes (at least). In
order to create a
dynamic text field in AS1 -- let's say a non-selectable text
field, that
resizes as needed to fit the text, with a sans serif font --
you might do
something like this:
var tf = this.createTextField("myTextField", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
tf.selectable = false;
tf.autoSize = "left";
var fmt = new TextFormat();
fmt.font = "_sans";
tf.setNewTextFormat(fmt);
tf.text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet";
(Note, this assumes Flash Player 8 or higher, because prior
to Flash Player
8, the MovieClip.createTextField() method returns Void.)
So ... to me, that's a lot to type. Again (this is my mantra
in this
post) ... one set of complexities for another. To reuse this
code, I could
certainly throw it into a function. Let's say something like
this:
function makeTextField(target, text) {
var tf = target.createTextField("myTextField" +
target.getNextHighestDepth(),
target.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 0, 0);
tf.selectable = false;
tf.autoSize = "left";
var fmt = new TextFormat();
fmt.font = "_sans";
tf.setNewTextFormat(fmt);
tf.text = text;
makeTextField(this, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet");
That's a tried and true procedural way to make your work
easier. I
think, so far, you would agree ... and I think, for you,
there's nothing new
so far. Notice that to keep instance names unique, I used
MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() to append a number to the
instance name, and
also to ensure that a safe depth is met. A real
implementation would
probably include x,y positioning parameters, to make sure
text doesn't
overlap ... but you get the idea.
I could use AS2 to create a utility class called, say,
SimpleText.
Here's a stab at it. Quick and dirty AS2 external class file.
// Class file
class net.quip.utils.text.SimpleText {
public function SimpleText() {};
public static function makeTextField (target:MovieClip,
text:String):Void {
var tf:TextField = target.createTextField("myTextField" +
target.getNextHighestDepth(), target.getNextHighestDepth(),
0, 0, 0, 0);
tf.selectable = false;
tf.autoSize = "left";
var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
fmt.font = "_sans";
tf.setNewTextFormat(fmt);
tf.text = text;
More complex? In a sense, sure. Not by a whole lot, if you
really look
at it. The AS1 function version was a teensy bit bigger than
the
non-function version. The AS2 class version is a teensy bit
bigger than the
AS1 function version. But once it's done, it's done. If I
ever want this
functionality, I just import my class and use its (in this
case) static
method:
import net.quip.utils.text.SimpleText;
SimpleText.makeTextField(this, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet");
In my experience, that saves me time and effort. And this
same sort of
approach applies to non-static methods as well. It's just a
way to organize
your code. Many people find it more efficient. If you don't,
then you
don't. ;) It's as simple as that.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Bridge Dual Monitors CS3 Workspace Questions

I can't seem to figure out a few things regarding running dual monitors. Run windows XP, have the latest bridge/cs 3 updates. Sometimes everything works fine, other times it doesn't.
I like having my preview pane on monitor #1, directly in front of me. I also like opening the selected photo in RAW from monitor #1 and having the RAW window come up on monitor #1.
Most often the RAW window will open up on Monitor #2, which I do not want to happen. On Monitor #2, I have my content pane and my metadata & folders showing.
I've reversed 1:2 and 2:2 and can't get it to work right either. Could someone provide some guidance? Been searching options and can't figure it out.
Another topic that is not related to dual montiors. Sometimes my preview tab, will not show the selected photo in it. I usually reset Bridge on start up and it'll be there...but sometimes the photo disappears. The tab will still be there. Any help/ideas would be appreciated.
Thank you.

I discovered that with dual monitors if the window is maximized it has no preview image (default workspace), just a green pane. If you use the double headed arrow and pull back the dividing line between thumb/preview pane or preview/metadata pane it revels dozens of "copies" of underneath. The preview will only show up when the thumb window pane is moved quite a ways to the left. It is almost like the real workspace is on the bottom and the others are on top.
The solution I have found is to click RESTORE DOWN (middle window icon) and then everything works correctly, even if I enlarge the window to full monitor. If I maximize it reverts again. Am using Vista and 2 monitors. Can work with this now that I know what to do, but a little puzzling. For anyone not seeing a preview image, or metadata, might be worth while to see if maximize window mode is the problem.
Perhaps you could experiment with maximize - restore down and see if it helps with your problem.
Probably get a better response if you post questions in Bridge question forum rather than feature forum.

Metadata written in Bridge partly not imported in Aperture

Just bought Aperture and use it on a new MacBookPro 2.4. Started to import a project with files which had metadata ( captions, keywords etc.) written in Adobe Bridge about two years ago. Aperture imported the files but about one third of the pictures does not show captions anymore. Opening the same pictures in Bridge shows that there are still captions and keywords.
What could be the reason?

Thanks a lot. That was the first post of my life and I got help with a problem which Apple-Professional-Care was not able to give. But I still have a question. I understand that captions in a RAW-file are not imported into the Aperture library. Captions written with Bridge into a JPG-file are imported. Okay so far! But what about TIFF-files (I do not mean the tif-files (CANONS RAW-files of the EOS 1ds) I mean real uncompressed TIFF-files. Why does Aperture import captions of some of those files and others not. For example I have pictures which are just slide variations of a subject, which were taken within seconds of each other and both turned into a TIFF-file and then captioned and keyworded. There was no difference in working with these pictures before they were captioned.
Nevertheless some files were imported with captions and ohters were not.
That makes me a bit reluctand to use Aperture. I scanned more then 20 years of work for the worlds mayor maganzines and have started to caption them two years ago with bridge after trying to caption them with "Fotostation" which was used by STERN-magazine in Germany, my mayor customer at that time. All of a sudden captions written with this software did not show anymore with Photoshop because Adobe changed something with Photoshop. I promised my self never ever to use another software than that of the marketleader to be sure not to do that painstaking work anymore of captioning old stories.
That is why I am hesitating now although I believe Apple -software will not give me the same problems. Most pictureeditors and customers use Photoshop or another Adobe software. So I want to be sure, that my pictures will always be able to show captions in any Adobe software in the future.
What I like with Apple is the lighttable-mode. It is like handling hundreds of slides on my good old fashoned lighttable. Also the vault system is important for me to safe and backup the daily work of my assistant and me in a quick and effortless way. Handling 4 Terrabit of pictures is fifficult and I do not want to loose pictures in the process to organise my files because they were forgotten to be safed.
That was why Aperture was my choice. But I cannot afford to check every imported file and rewrite the missing captions. Storing my pictures as JPGs is not an alternative. I want to keep them as TIFF files after I worked them out.
To ask the question again: What could be the reason that some Tiff files are imported with captions and others, which are just variations and captioned the same way are not?
Thanks a lot for any sugestion!

Can't install Full FW as part of CS3 over trial

I was using the trial of Fireworks, and later decided to buy
CS3. When I try to install CS3 it says that FW is already
installed, even though I've trolled all the forums and followed all
the painstaking steps to remove it from my system.
Obviously I've missed a step. Does anyone have any ideas?
thanks,
paul

Contact Adobe Support?
srtjsva wrote:
> I was using the trial of Fireworks, and later decided to
buy CS3. When I try to
> install CS3 it says that FW is already installed, even
though I've trolled all
> the forums and followed all the painstaking steps to
remove it from my system.
>
> Obviously I've missed a step. Does anyone have any
ideas?
>
> thanks,
> paul
>
>

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