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USING ADOBE BRIDGE AND ADOBE VERSION CUE CS4
Adobe Bridge
Show subfolder contents
You can specify that Adobe Bridge display folders and subfolders in one continuous, “flat” view. Flat view displays the
entire contents of a folder, including its subfolders, so you don’t have to navigate the subfolders.
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To display the contents of folders in flat view, do one of the following:
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Choose View
> Show Items From Subfolders.
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac
OS) a folder in the path bar and choose Show Items From Subfolders.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a folder in the path bar and choose a subfolder to open it in the
Content panel.
Open or place files
You can open files from Adobe Bridge, even files that were not made with Adobe software. When you use
Adobe Bridge to open a file, the file opens in its native application or the application you specify. You can also use
Adobe Bridge to place files in an open document in an Adobe application.
See also
“
Get photos from a digital camera or card reader
” on page 25
Open files
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Select a file and do any of the following:
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Choose File
> Open.
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Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac
OS).
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Double-click the file in the Content panel.
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Choose File
> Open With, followed by the name of the application with which to open the file.
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Drag the file onto an application icon.
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Choose File
> Open In Camera Raw to edit the camera raw settings for the file.
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.
1
Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Bridge CS4
> Preferences (Mac
OS), and click File Type Associations.
2
Click the name of the application (or None) and click Browse to locate the application to use.
3
To reset the file type associations to their default settings, click Reset To Default Associations.
4
To hide any file types that don’t have associated applications, select Hide Undefined File Associations.
Place files
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Select the file and choose File
> Place, followed by the name of the application. For instance, you can use this
command to place a JPEG image into Adobe Illustrator.
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Drag a file from Adobe Bridge into the desired application. Depending on the file, the document into which you
want to place the file may need to be opened first.
Updated 15 July 2009