Comments on: Bridge the Gap Between Folders

By: Leo Gheorghita

Leo Gheorghita — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:09:03 +0000

You can drag the picture in Illustrator too, not only in InDesign.

By: Noel

Noel — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:49:29 +0000

That’s a great tip, Bob – thanks for drawing attention to it in the forum.
I can use it fine for placing images in my paper, but I’ve got a problem when the file is a PDF, like most of the ads. I have Bridge set up to show Dimensions (in cm), but it shows the PDF dimensions as some way-out computation that I can’t use. For example, a file 60 x 90 mm shows in Bridge as 1.8 x 2.7 cm @ 240 ppi, which is nonsense.
I know this is a Bridge problem, but perhaps someone reading this could suggest a solution. No-one has bitten in the Bridge forums.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:19:26 +0000

Vista Ultimate 64, AM.

Despite all the bad press, if you have the right hardware (and most people don’t, hence the bad press), it’s really a nice operating system.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:08:17 +0000

I gave Bob’s debut tip a whirl today. I have to say it was a good one. Had an events section to do up for a mag and I just sat mini-bridge in where the panels go, finding and placing the images couldn’t have been easier.

I’d usually have windows explorer doing this task, but it doesn’t stay on top like mini-bridge does, so it is a welcomed addition to my work flow.

Good start Bob, keep ‘em rolling.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:28:20 +0000

I have to say as a Bridge fanatic, this tip was still a new one to me, and it’s very cool! Great debut, Bob!

I’m also admiring those beautiful screen shots. Is that Vista?

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:22:26 +0000

I always have Bridge open on my second monitor with the default “clients” folder open. I then open new Bridge windows as I work on different projects (quickly looking stuff up).

By opening new windows from the ’starting’ Bridge window, I don’t have to go back to the ‘base’ folder.
If you do this and always want to start with the same folder open upon startup of Bridge, keep in mind that Bridge opens with the last viewed folder.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:39:09 +0000

Indeed you can, Sean and to be perfectly honest it’s been so long since I had two full windows open that I’d forgotten you could.

But for the purpose of this exercise, having two full windows open would defeat the purpose of having “Bridge Panels,” anyway.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:52:30 +0000

You can open more than one Bridge window in full screen mode, as well.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:32:10 +0000

This is a very nice tip indeed! But I worried that new windows would mean a whole new Bridge instance and thus quickly add up to a major RAM drain. However, some quick test (on WinXP) showed me clearly that the memory increase is totally minuscule — it’s only the first (and in effect only) instance of Bridge which sucks up a non-minuscule chunk of memory, not new mini-windows. So even for us fanatical performance-watchers this tip is good to go!

By: Shawn Graham

Shawn Graham — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:55:50 +0000

Finally a reason to try Bridge again! I know that it is a great program and every time I use it I find more that I like about it. In my normal workflow I just continue to skip it because it always seemed in my way. But using it this way Bridge is a real click saver. Way to come in and hit the ground running – thanks!