CS2-Bridge PICT file thumbnails not showing

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Jul 26, 2005
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Found an interesting problem with Adobe Bridge. I’ve got a bunch of .PICT files, that I send out to video producers, as this is the format that they prefer. In CS’s Browser, thumbnails of these files open fine. In ThumbsPlus, they show fine. PS-CS2 will open them with out a problem, just not show them in Bridge.

I changed the file association (XP-Media Edition) from Apple QT (latest viewer installed), to Photoshop CS2 for both PICT and PIC, but it doesn’t make a difference. All I get are the QT Logo icons, even though a PS icon should now be showing. In Bridge Preferences>File Association, they both show as CS2 just fine.

System: 3.2GHz Intel, 2GB RAM, nVidia 128MB video, XP-Media Editon SP-1, CS & CS2 with all updates.

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA
Hunt
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noone
Jul 29, 2005
In article , says…
Found an interesting problem with Adobe Bridge. I’ve got a bunch of .PICT files, that I send out to video producers, as this is the format that they prefer. In CS’s Browser, thumbnails of these files open fine. In ThumbsPlus, they show fine. PS-CS2 will open them with out a problem, just not show them in Bridge.

I changed the file association (XP-Media Edition) from Apple QT (latest
viewer
installed), to Photoshop CS2 for both PICT and PIC, but it doesn’t make a difference. All I get are the QT Logo icons, even though a PS icon should now be showing. In Bridge Preferences>File Association, they both show as CS2
just
fine.

System: 3.2GHz Intel, 2GB RAM, nVidia 128MB video, XP-Media Editon SP-1, CS & CS2 with all updates.

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA
Hunt

Well, I found the answer – you cannot get thumbnails for PICT files in Bridge, on a PC, only MAC.

Oh well, I’ll just use ThumbsPlus, and then go to PS.

Hunt
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KatWoman
Jul 30, 2005
"Hunt" wrote in message
In article , says…
Found an interesting problem with Adobe Bridge. I’ve got a bunch of .PICT files, that I send out to video producers, as this is the format that they prefer. In CS’s Browser, thumbnails of these files open fine. In ThumbsPlus,
they show fine. PS-CS2 will open them with out a problem, just not show them
in Bridge.

I changed the file association (XP-Media Edition) from Apple QT (latest
viewer
installed), to Photoshop CS2 for both PICT and PIC, but it doesn’t make a difference. All I get are the QT Logo icons, even though a PS icon should now
be showing. In Bridge Preferences>File Association, they both show as CS2
just
fine.

System: 3.2GHz Intel, 2GB RAM, nVidia 128MB video, XP-Media Editon SP-1, CS &
CS2 with all updates.

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA
Hunt

Well, I found the answer – you cannot get thumbnails for PICT files in Bridge,
on a PC, only MAC.

Oh well, I’ll just use ThumbsPlus, and then go to PS.

Hunt

another oversight? snub? from Adobe who don’t seem to care about us PC users.

The built in browser in CS sucks compared to Win XP built in Explorer for sorting and viewing thumbnails and files. If I open a large folder in Adobe browser my comp sucks wind until it reads all the files. It seems to need to re-create all the thumbnails no matter how many times I have viewed them before .Same folder opens almost instantly in Explorer which caches the thumbs after the first read. Add to that you cannot save files directly to your drive from the stupid built in browser either and they have removed the ability for Windows to make thumbnails in Explorer you really have to wonder if this is done for our convenience.
I am using the "not recommended by Adobe" file to create thumbnails for my PSD files in Win XP. With absolutely no issues to my OS. The more I read about Bridge the less I like the feature.

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