.CDRs and Adobe Bridge CS6

Two questions, please:

1) I have CDGS X7, but I also use Adobe CS6, In the interests of harmonious cohabitation of file types (:-)), I'm hoping someone here might have an idea on how to get .CDR files to display in Adobe's Bridge CS6; currently they only show as a standard CDGS thumbnail icon. Previous versions of Bridge displayed them, but I can't remember if it was a native capability or there was some kind of software extension. I know this would seem a question i should ask Adobe, and I've checked those forums and knowledgebases of course, but Adobe doesn't seem all that interested in Corel compatibility (subjective appraisal), so I though enterprising Corel users might know. Any ideas please, folks?

2) Alternatively, can anyone suggest a software alternative to Adobe's Bridge that does support both Adobe and Corel? Not just standard rasters, but .CDR, .AI and .PSD, and maybe .PDF as well. And preferably, not just viewing, but standard file management would be good.

Thanks.

MikeWe over 9 years ago

Bran, I dunno. I have 3 versions of Bridge installed and none of them display CDR files decently. I do see a preview, but it is small and grainy.

I also gotta admit I don't use Bridge for anything, not even the mini-bridge from inside any version of AI, ID etc.

And...I organize my drawings, publications, etc., into client folders, which in turn have project folders inside them. So I have no recommendation as regards a secondary application for file management other than the way I organize client work.

Mike
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David Milisock over 9 years ago in reply to MikeWe

Mike your way seems to me to be the only way that really works in the long run.
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Phil1923 over 9 years ago

Hi Bran,
I use Windows Explorer for organizing photos. Why get dependent on a competitor's proprietary application. I use two large external hard drives (3 Tbytes) so I simply duplicate the photos in different folder categories rather than using Explorer shortcuts.
Photoshop does not have a shell extension for it's PSD icons. I use Mystic Thumbs so that PSD icons will display in Windows Explorer.
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Bran over 9 years ago in reply to MikeWe

Thanks for the replies, Mike and David.

Memory is sometimes a dubious thing, but I'm sure I previously had the ability to view CDRs in a previous version of Bridge. But I can't remember the darned details, and (unusually for me) I don't seem to have kept any notes on it. But I'd had Windows 7 installed for a while, and it had dirtied its nest (as Windows does over time) to an uncomfortable degree, so I blew it away and re-installed ... but I can't find the same functionality I'm sure I used to have. Age old story. Yes, of course I had backups -- of the source installables -- but backups are only good if you've remembered to document every step of your configuration. Sigh! (On the other hand, it's over 40 degrees here at the moment, Celsius, and humidity in the high 90s. Maybe I'm truly delirious.)

Thanks for the comments too about organising, but that doesn't cover everything I want this functionality for. I have lots of elements that aren't related to a specific project or client, and I like to be able to browse them when cooking up a new idea.
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Bran over 9 years ago in reply to Phil1923

Hi Phil, thanks for your reply.

Yes, I do something similar -- organising files in themed folder structures -- but I'm talking also about file formats Windows Explorer can't view, in addition to those it can. I don't feel dependent on Bridge, though -- since it handles at least most of what I was looking for, and I have it anyway as part of CS6, why not use it? If Corel offered a similar utility, no doubt I'd use that. (As I hinted at before, my impression is that Adobe largely shuns Corel, perhaps even for strategic reasons -- much the way Microsoft did with WordPerfect as its primary competition in the early days of Windows, implying -- and even actively suggesting -- that WordPerfect wasn't "professional-level" enough to pay developer attention to -- and sadly, it worked.) But the nice thing about Bridge is that you can browse the content independent of the format it's saved in. (For those formats it acknowledges, natch.)

Anyway. The search continues! ;-)

Thanks for mentioning Mystic Thumbs. I'd never heard of it, so I'll check it out.
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