Creative Adobe Suite 5 Manual

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Output panel Contains options for creating PDF documents and HTML or Flash web galleries. Appears when the 
Output workspace is selected.
Adjust panels
You can adjust the Adobe Bridge window by moving and resizing its panels. However, you can’t move panels outside 
the Adobe Bridge window.
❖Do any of the following:
Drag a panel by its tab into another panel.
Drag the horizontal divider bar between panels to make them larger or smaller.
Drag the...

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Keywords Displays the Content panel in Details view, along with the Favorites, Keywords, Filter, and Export panels.
Note: In Mac OS, pressing Command+F5 to load the Keywords workspace starts Mac OS VoiceOver by default. To load 
the Preview workspace by using the keyboard shortcut, first disable the VoiceOver shortcut in Mac
 OS Keyboard 
Shortcuts preferences. For instructions, see Mac
 OS Help.
Preview Displays a large Preview panel; a narrow,...

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To specify accent colors, go to the General panel of the Preferences dialog box and choose a color from the Accent 
Color menu.
Work in Compact mode
Switch to Compact mode when you want to shrink the Adobe Bridge window. In Compact mode, the panels are 
hidden and the Content panel is simplified. A subset of common Adobe Bridge commands remains available from the 
pop-up menu in the upper-right corner of the window.
By default, the Compact mode Adobe...

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Enable startup scripts
You can enable or disable startup scripts in Adobe Bridge preferences. Scripts listed vary depending on the 
Creative
 Suite 5/5.5 components you’ve installed. Disable startup scripts to improve performance or to resolve 
incompatibilities between scripts.
1Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Bridge CS5.1 > Preferences (Mac OS), and click Startup Scripts. 
2Do any of the following:
Select or deselect the desired...

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Click the buttons in the lower-right corner of the Adobe Bridge window to View Content As Thumbnails, View 
Content As Details, or View Content As List.
Adjust the size of thumbnails 
Make thumbnails smaller so you can see more of them at once, or enlarge them to see thumbnail details. 
Drag the Thumbnail slider  at the bottom of the Adobe Bridge window. 
Note: When you resize the Adobe Bridge window in Auto Layout mode, thumbnails in the Content...

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Specify thumbnail quality
You can specify that Adobe Bridge display embedded, high-quality, or 1:1 previews of image thumbnails for individual 
folders of images. 
For faster browsing, choose a folder and then select the Browse Quickly By Preferring Embedded Images button  
in the Adobe Bridge application bar.
To display higher-quality thumbnail previews, click the Options For Thumbnail Quality And Preview Generation 
button
  in the Adobe Bridge...

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Build and manage the cache
❖Choose either of the following commands from the Tools > Cache menu:
Build And Export Cache Builds, as a background process, a cache for the selected folder and all the folders within it 
(except aliases or shortcuts to other folders). This command reduces the time spent waiting for thumbnails and file 
information to be displayed as you browse in subfolders. You can also generate 100% previews in cache to help 
improve...

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Select an item in the Favorites panel.
Click the Go To Parent Or Favorites button  or Reveal Recent button  in the application bar and choose an item.
To reveal a file in the operating system, select it and choose File > Reveal In Explorer (Windows) or File > Reveal In 
Finder (Mac OS).
Click the Go Back button  or Go Forward button  in the application bar to navigate between recently visited 
folders.
Double-click a folder in the Content panel to...

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To open photos from a digital camera into Adobe Bridge, use the Adobe Photo Downloader. See “Get photos from 
a digital camera or card reader into Adobe Bridge” on page 20.
Change file type associations
Selecting the application to open a specific file type affects only those files that you open using Adobe Bridge and 
overrides operating system settings. 
1Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Bridge CS5.1 > Preferences (Mac OS), and click...

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Perform a Quick Search
Use the Quick Search field in the application bar to find files and folders in Adobe Bridge. Quick Search lets you search 
using either the Adobe
 Bridge search engine or Windows Desktop Search (Windows) or Spotlight (Mac OS). The 
Adobe
 Bridge engine searches filenames and keywords. Operating system engines look for filenames, folder names, 
and image keywords. Adobe
 Bridge search looks within the currently selected folder...