Will Bridge CS4 expire, too?

I just downloaded and installed the InDesign CS4 trial.
(Hold it, hold it ... I know this isn't the InDesign forum ... Just gimme a sec to explain ... sheesh)
Apparently, Bridge CS4 is installed as well.
When Bridge starts, however, there's no indication that after 30 days it, too, will expire.
Can anyone tell me what to expect next month when my InDesign CS4 trial expires?
Will Bridge CS4 continue to work?
Thanks!
- The Schneidster

Good question!
I would think the answer is that the whole thing – ID and Bridge will become unusable.

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Bridge CS4 image Previews are too small

In Bridge CS4 I cannot get the preview images to display anything larger than a large thumbnail view, see image below. I have tried all of the Preferences in Edit menu (e.g. Thumbnail: do not process files larger than set to 10,000 MB, cache options are keep 100% previews in cache checked/automatically export cache to folders when possible checked/cache size slider is set to 50%, software render has been checked/unchecked/generate monitor size previews checked). None of these options change anything for the size of the image preview. I have a DX10.1 ATI Radeon HD4890 XOC 1GB, so my video card is not the issue. I am running Windows 7 Ult x64 on ASUS P8P67 Deluxe with 16GB RAM and over 2 TB of HDD space. So my system should not be an issue either. These are Sample artwork images that were installed with Illustrator cs4. How do i increase the size of these images?
Also, these images are showing everything in the ai image, not the individual images in each ai file. How do i get it to show the individual images in each AI file like they were separate images, like Illustrator?

Actually, you just solved both of my problems with your question. I never thought about how the images were created/saved.
It turns out that for some reason when i re-save the images as version CS4 of course and all options selected in dialog box now the images act correctly and resize accordingly when the separator is moved and will get quite large as they should.
I also had to use my mouse and select each artboard/image inside the file then re-saved with same settings as above to get multiple images to show up with the buttons at bottom of image in preview mode. Now all is good.
These are the default installed sample artwork images. Not sure why they were like this, may have been some kind of format/process error. Thanks a lot Curt Y.
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Bridge CS4 will not update to Camera Raw 5.7 on one of my computers.

Bridge (CS4) will properly display my Nikon NEFs (from my Nikon D3 & D3S) on my old Mac Pro (Lion 10.75) but only the NEFs from the D3 are displayed on the exact same program on my MacBook Pro Retina - Mavericks).
I have followed Adobe's instructions perfectly, over and over again, but no matter what I try (and I did try some variations) I cannot update from Camera RAW Preferences.Version 5.0.0.178 on the MacBookPro Retina.
The Camera RAW preferences Version on the older Mac Pro computer's identical copy of Bridge CS4 is Version 5.7.0.213.
I tried opening and installing a download of Camera_Raw_5_7.dmg from Adobe and I also tried dropping in the Camera Raw plugin file from the older computer but nothing works. I have emptied the cache several times.
I dont know if this is significant but when I first started trying to do this, I could not find the Plug-Ins folder in the Adobe file on the MacBook Pro Retina, so I copied the one from the Mac Pro's Adobe folder.
Please help. I can only use Bridge on my older desktop computer because of this problem.
Thank you.
Jan

Well, Jan, over the years I've helped many Mac users with this precise problem, and I even posted screen shots showing the path to the correct plug-in folder for ACR. However, in your case all those images won't help and I won't be able to generate new ones for you for one simple reason: I do not use Mavericks and never will because my Mac Pro desktops cannot go above Lion, FORTUNATELY. Mavericks is still cr@p at this point.
All I can do is try to clarify a few misconceptions for you:
AutoMatters wrote:
…I read that about the root level library when I first tried to follow the instructions from Adobe and I thought that I was doing exactly that. Instead of the library associated with my name, I found the library associated with my hard drive. I suspect that I have not yet even seen the root level library…
Jan, that is the ROOT LEVEL Library.
Getting back to your advice, I do not understand what you mean by mounting the .dmg file as if it were a DVD or external hard drive.
I mean just that. A Disk Image file (.dmg) is a virtual disk, like a virtual DVD. You double click on that file in the Finder and it will then mount just as if you had inserted a DVD into your computer. It will then show you the contents it carries. I will not be at my computers for a few weeks, so I can't be sure about all that the Disk Image for that update shows; but somewhere in there will be the ACR Plug-in. That's what you need to copy from the Disk Image to your hard drive and install it in its correct location, NOT THE BLOODY .dmg file, for goodness sakes!
Do you understand that once you are at the ROOT LEVEL Library you DO NOT go to the Plug-ins folder therein? Read the instructions again. What you want is to continue the path through the Application Support folder /Adobe / Plug-ins / etc.
This old screen shot may help. Command or Control-Click on the thumbnail to see the full image in a new window, then scroll horizontally; it is a VERY wide image:
Also, if I delete the Plug-ins folder that I copied from my other computer's installation of Bridge CS4. Should I reinstall the entire CS4 suite from the original disks and start all over again. If so, I read somewhere that I will need to somehow deactivate my serial number from the products as installed on my MacBook Pro so that I may reinstall it.
Delete anything you may have copied yourself only if you are 100% sure what that is. But DO NOT REINSTALL ANYTHING without first uninstalling using the Adobe UNINSTALLER that was installed in your Utilities folder inside your Applications folder.
Whatever possessed you to go around copying folders from a different Mac OS version? ??? That is insane! Geez…
Why the heck do you keep talking about Bridge? ??? !!! Bridge has absolutely NOTHING to do with the installation of ACR. NOTHING!
ACR is installed at the OS level and can be hosted indistinctly by Photoshop or by Bridge from the same location.
Bridge is totally out of the loop in this discussion, just as it is when you are using ACR hosted by Bridge. All Bridge does is call upon the appropriate application, whether this be Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Illustrator or even Microsoft Word and hand it the file, period. You could use ACR for years without ever launching Bridge, even without having Bridge installed. Ever.
Irgendwie vermute ich, daß Deutsch Deine Muttersprache ist. Oder irre ich mich?

Bridge CS4 will not Launch

Recently I tried to upgrade my Mac G4 Tower from OS 10.4 to OS 10.5 and it failed, even though I met all requirements. I had to reinstall 10.4 and now Bridge CS4 will not launch. It worked fine before. I uninstalled PS CS4 and reinstalled it, I tossed prefs & cash files, I reset prefs but still no luck. Any suggestions before I strip down the whole HD and start from scratch?
gardon4

Any suggestions before I strip down the whole HD and start from scratch?
My first go would be to buy a new HD and replace this with your current in
the G4 and give a clean install of 10.5 to try if it will work.
If you downgraded without a clean install from scratch you sure will end up
with conflicting settings for applications.
You could try to back up all custom settings, actions, tools etc and then
deactivate the suite with erase serial number.
Then find the clean tool for Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs5clean.html
and run this script, it says CS5 but to my knowledge it also finds files for
the CS3 and CS4 suite. Do a search for any adobe files from user and system
library and delete those also. Then install the CS4 suite again.
But again to be honest, you are using a computer that in current digital
terms dates from the 'stone age' and in now way can cope with the needs for
the use of digital files nowadays. It might be wiser to try and find a used
MacPro (or even a used iMac with intel processor) that will give you much
more profit in speed, disk space and processing instead of investing more
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Will PSE 9 use my Bridge (CS4) from PSE 8?

I've decided to move to PSE 9 from PSE 8.
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2) will I have an updated version of Adobe Raw or will it be the same one from 8?

Yes, you can still use Bridge. It should automatically choose PSE 9 for any file types you had set to open in PSE 8.
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Ever since PSE 3, the windows version came with Organizer (which used to be Photoshop Album before it was grafted into PSE). Due to the difficulties of porting it over to the mac, it's taken them a while to get it into the mac version.

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I'm getting this message when trying to open an image from Bridge CS4 in ACR,
"Camera raw requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature"
Any ideas how to cure this, I've downloaded the update 5.2.2., what is the correct location for this? Automatic update is just opening a box withe file in and I cant find the previous.
By the way ACR opens fine from Photoshop CS4.
Thanks
Philip James

Philip:
This has been discussed in the Camera Raw Forum: you may need to install the new ACR 5.2 plug-in in the correct place manually.
Eric Chan, "ACR 5.2 not installing in CS4" #1, 30 Nov 2008 9:17 am

Adobe Bridge CS4 window will not open MAC

I was using Bridge CS4 on a MAC OSX 10.6.8 yesterday and all was fine. Today when I went to use Bridge, there was no window open. Bridge started up and appeared normal. However, there is no window. When I select "new Window" nothing happens. I uninstalled manually and reinstalled all Photoshop software from the start. I went to open Bridge and the same thing occured. How do I get a new window in Bridge to operate?

Yes!! Success at last. Thank you Omke. Holding down the Option key while starting fixed it. That's an answer that nobody at Adobe could provide me with in 9 hours. Regards.

***Bridge CS4 will not show a preview of my .CR2 files***

OK...
I have been searching the internet for a couple hours with no luck. Hopefully someone out there can help...
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When i open Bridge CS4 all my raw or .CR2 files dont have a preview. Im thinking it could be because the adobe website says that my Rebel Xti minimum ACR plugin is version 3.6? But dont all the later versions support it anyway?? So 5.5 should work right?? Im at a loss if you have any insight at all that would be great!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Robert
Had the same problem this worked for me.
start up bridge go to preferance/advanced and tick the selection Generate Monitor size previews.
Regards
Tony

Bridge CS4 one Windows 7 stops working when trying to load pictures in a new file

Bridge starts fine but when i click on some files to see the pictures in there it stops working.
The message i get is:
"Adobe Bridge has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
I had problems with my XP x64 and CS4 bridge too and after formatting and installing windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit) i thought it would be solved ... but no such luck.
Any ideas what to do?
also not sure where to look for any error logging or something similar.
Oh having problems with itunes too as it will not start....., yea i know wrong forum but just incase someone has the same problem as i do
I appreciate your help

This is what i get from the event viewer:
Sorry i have no idea what to look for
System
Provider
[ Name]
Application Error
EventID
1000
[ Qualifiers]
0
Level
2
Task
100
Keywords
0x80000000000000
TimeCreated
[ SystemTime]
2010-02-06T01:28:23.000000000Z
EventRecordID
3309
Channel
Application
Computer
Workstation
Security
EventData
Bridge.exe
3.0.0.464
48b75dac
unknown
0.0.0.0
00000000
c0000005
041b15e1
d8c
01caa6cba0a860a8
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CS4\Bridge.exe
unknown
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Adobe Bridge CS4 causes Blue Screen of Death! Help?

Can anyone help?
I keep getting a Blue Screen of Death every so often when I am using Adobe Bridge CS4 and another program, either Photoshop or Bryce or Cinema4D.
When I have been working in the other program for a while and attempt to return to Bridge, the instant I click on the bridge icon in the low taskbar, the PC blue screens and everything dies instantly with no time to read the blue screen or to take a photo of it, never mind do anything useful like save the file I was working on.
I have winXP Pro and an NVidia Ge Force 8800 GTS graphics card. (both are up to date)
I recently got the Adobe updates but there wasn't one for Bridge.
Buckets full of memory: 289GB free on the C drive and I store most (work) things on my F drive which is a terrabyte with 315 gigs free.
Um.... dunno what else to say.
Except: HELP!!!

Well, I don't find that the magnifying glass ability is all that much help to me as often what you see in that magnified area is too blurry to be of any use - my eyes aren't wonderful with small things (including small text - I therefore have the text on all the machines I use set to quite large, browser included) so I like large thumbnails too, and usually I find that the big thumbnails are sufficient for me to find what I want.
So that's not been the cause of my BSOD.
By the way what's "ralentize"? Is it like "pixilate"?
On the BSOD - it sounds to me that there can be more than one cause in Bridge of the BSOD, so it sounds as if Bridge CS4 - is just not stable, period.
The fact that Bridge in CS3 and CS2 worked just fine is a good indicator of this, (to me anyway) as most people seem to be saying so.
I wouldn't like to rely on NVidia's next update fixing this, as I've already updated NVidia once since this began and it didn't help, I now hear that there's now another update out for the NVidia Ge Force 8800 GTS (which is what I have in my PC), so I will be updating that when I get back, but as the last update didn't fix it, I doubt if this one will either, I think it's something that Adobe will have to sort out, but I doubt if they will.
So it looks like those of us with that graphics card are just left without being able to use Bridge properly - if at all.
I've given up on it on my PC and so I'm refusing to use it on my Laptop either, since it would be silly to get so used to it that I can't work without it.
I have tried using Irfanview, but it's functionalitly is comparably limited. So I'm looking out for something else.
I don't at the moment have PhotoshopCS4 on the laptop and as I left the box with the program in it in my room at Uni I can't install it on the laptop with its different Graphics card (although still an NVidia it's a Ge Force Go 6800, not the 8800 Gts), until I get back next week... not that I really want to, if it's just going to crash the laptop like it does the PC.
I do have Corel's Paintshop Pro Photo X2 on here, but I don't use it anything like as much as I do Photoshop, but at least the Bridge or Browser (they call it "Organiser") on that doesn't kill the entire computer, although it does take up room on the screen instead of opening as a whole new window.
Also PaintShopPro does not save an inferior version of the image when saving as BMP, which I've noticed does now happen with Photoshop CS4 (when comparing .psd or pspimage with bmp).
emirkill,
I will also try the "enable software rendering" when I get back, that you've used, in case that helps.

Bridge CS4 crashes with last Nvidia driver (195.62)

Sorry for my bad english...
This message because since november I have crashes with Blue Screnn of the Death when I used Bridge CS4, even when no other programs running on my PC.
Or my computer became veru slow when I open Bridge...
Or Error messages saying that Bridge must close because not enough memory (I have 3gO RAM and 512 on my graphic card Nvidia 9500, and not at all used when I have the message....)
I tried many and many things (uninstall and reinstall Photoshop, change preferences of Photoshop, Bridge, change memory in Windows...) and Bridge always crashes after some minutes of use.
I searched in many forums, and saw many people have the same problem, but nobody have the solution.
Yesterday, in the "Event viewer", in "system", I had the message : "the driver nv_disp of the peripherical display \Device\Video0 remained blocked in an infinite curl. It points out a problem with the material or with the driver of the material programming the equipment in the wrong manner"
So I went to a problem with the graphic card.
I found the solution on a forum about Nvidia : "...the problem is that after driver 195.62, sometimes Blue Screen of the Death happens. This crashes happens everytime I close Adobe Bridge, and also in some other occasions too. With the old driver (190.38), dosn't BSOD. Will be great if NVIDIA told it at 195.62 releases, and fix it if possible..."
In fact, I uploaded my GeForce 9500 driver version 6.14.11.7519 to 6.14.11.9562 in november...
I come back to my old driver and have no more problem with Bridge CS4...

Well I have a 9600GT and at the moment I have the v191.07 installed but on checking the Nvidia site today I saw this
This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, and 300-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs.
New in Version 197.45
Recommended for the best performance with the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5
RESULT...
Well have tried it and it seems to cure the problem. Opened Bridge and Photoshop CS5 several times, went through hundreds of photo albums, trying to make Bridge crash but it just wouldn't... So for now I'd have to say it works great.

Bridge CS4 - I still can't move keywords for stock photos

I'm on a Mac Pro, Leopard 10.5.8, 4G RAM.
I buy a lot of stock photos. The stock photo companies have thoughtfully assigned a bunch of keywords to the photos, sometimes in other languages that I don't really speak. Photos.com is notorious for applying keywords that have nothing to do with the photo, as evidenced my my searches for certain keywords. I wish they'd all stop doing this.
When these photos are opened, their keywords appear under "Other Keywords." I can make the keyword permanent under "Other Keywords," but I am unable to drag the keyword(s) into the main keyword list in an effort to GET RID OF this "Other Keywords" list.
I was hoping this was addressed in Bridge CS4, but of course it wasn't...UNLESS...
someone here knows how to do it?

YES Terence! Thank you. Exporting allowed me to move my photos from iPhoto into the Burn Folder on my desktop. But that doesn't explain why I'm having to go that route now. Have I done something (accidentally changed some setting) on my computer that will not allow me to just click and drag anymore? I really liked the convenience of the click and drag option.
I don't have the time tonight to export and burn a lot of CD/DVDs. I'll try that tomorrow and make sure my photos are moving properly. I also need to export photos to my external hard drive to make sure that route is working.
Wouldn't you know that my Apple Care Plan runs out this Wednesday?! I need to make sure everything is working properly before that expires.
Thank you so much for your help. I really, really appreciate it.

Metadate entry problem Bridge CS4

I trying to enter metadata to our pictures in Bridge CS4, but I am getting an error messagge instead... does anyone know why?

Best to check that. I have seen too many posts where user finds out network administrator changed permission levels with no notifications. May not be the issue, but one that makes the most sense.
Another option for "it worked yesterday but not now and I have changed nothing" is to reset preferences. Hold down the Ctrl key (win) or option key (mac) and start Bridge. You will get a reset window with 3 options.

Bridge CS4 desaturating thumbnails

Approximately 1 second or less after opening Bridge CS4 it slightly desaturates the colours of the thumbnails - this is especially noticeable with greens. When any image is then opened in PsCS4 it contimues to display the desaturated colours.
I have compared this bebaviour with Bridge CS3 and PsCS3 where it does not happen, as far as I can tell, because the amount of desaturation is fairly subtle.
This all started 2 days ago just after I replaced my el cheapo Philips B190B monitor (which nevertheless displays wonderful colours :1280x1024 pixels and probably a fairly narrow gamut approximating sRGB) with an NEC 2690WUXi2 (1920x1200 displaying 97.8% of AdobeRGB 1998). There may be no connection but I thought that I should mention it.
All images were produced in Ps within the sRGB Working Space and were duly tagged with the sRGB profile. The problem persits even though I have switched back to the Philips monitor. Both monitors were calibrated and profiled with the iOneD2 puck and the latest Gretag software.
Anybody else experienced this, or have any idea what may be happening?

When Bridge first finds an image, it displays an icon or a thumbnail built in to the image file, if available. If Bridge is set to show high quality thumbnails, it will then go about rendering its own version of the image thumbnail, using whichever program necessary. This usually takes a fraction of a second to a few seconds per image, depending on content.
Bridge is a colour-managed application. Basically, it understands document colour profiles and display device profiles, and adjusts colour output accordingly. Sometimes this doesn't happen straight away—there may be a delay after thumbnails are updated, or you might need to force the display profile adjustment by minimising and maximising the window. But, if pictures still don't display their colours correctly, there could be one of two reasons: the images were not recorded correctly, or the computer/software is not set up correctly.
Assuming (!) your pictures have been made correctly, this leaves your computer set-up. If you are displaying JPEG or PSD images, the problem will probably be down to incorrect calibration and profiling of your monitor. Jumping to a wide-gamut monitor can be a bit of a culture shock, and you notice just how many Windows programs are not colour-managed. You need to be sure that your monitor has been properly calibrated and you are using the correct display profile. You also need to be sure that no other software is interfering with this process, like gamma adjusters and display driver utilities.
Raw images are different, in that there is no such thing as an out-of-the-camera look, only the embedded thumbnail, which is recorded according to the camera's own develop settings (but if you wanted that look, you wouldn't be shooting raw!). Adobe Camera Raw defaults can (and should) be adjusted to your own taste, and this will have a big effect on the appearance of high quality thumbnails in Bridge. If your defaults are poor, your thumbnails will be poor too.
Desaturated colours are often the result of displaying a wide-gamut source with a small gamut profile, e.g. displaying an Adobe RGB source with an sRGB profile. The opposite can happen with wide-gamut monitors and non-colour-management-aware programs, and you get garish colours on your expensive new monitor.

No previews to eps icons in Bridge CS4 with OSX Leopard 10.5.6

Crippled Leopard or Bridge too far...
Recently upgraded to an iMac and Leopard 10.5.6 and gone the
Adobe Creative suite CS4 route and find that I cannot preview eps
documents as images and just get basic icons in Bridge which is
very inconvenient.
Have Apple decided that we don't use ai eps anymore or is it a
problem with Bridge CS4!
Bridge CS3 works and previews are visible.
I don\'t seem to be able to find anything on line that will work.
Just downloaded Quicklook and that does not work either!
I would contact Apple if only I could get hold of them.

--"[EDIT: You're entitled to your money back if you don't like the responses: $0.00. ]"--
That is truly a mature and professional response.
--"Whatever, Lisa."--
I guess this shows that you know you are rude, and choose to be so as you couldn't come up with a better response than "Whatever." I see your postings all the time, so I know you are a power user in the forums; and many, including myself, have benefitted from your knowledge of the Adobe products. But that does not exclude you from following Adobe's guidelines about proper forum etiquette. Here's the link in case you need to refresh your memory. Oh, and there's also a link to some etiquette guides as well:
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/guidelines.html
But to get back to point, upon your advice, I did check out the Photoshop Macintosh Forums. 227 results popped up for "EPS"; and as I didn't check out all of them, the ones I did read refer to the EPS files when used with raster files. But my inquiry was about vector files (logos for example). Since you don't seem to want to help, I will check out the Illustrator forums instead.
And Tim, I'm sorry that this has veered off topic.

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