Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER

Working with other applications

Last updated 3/28/2012

Start Adobe Bridge from Dreamweaver

You can start Adobe Bridge from Dreamweaver to view your files before placing them or dragging them in your page

layout.

❖ You can start Adobe Bridge in several different ways:

• Select File > Browse In Bridge.

• Click the Browse In Bridge button in the Standard toolbar.

• Press the Browse In Bridge shortcut from the keyboard: Control+Alt+O (Windows) or Command+Option+O

(Macintosh).

Adobe Bridge opens in File Browser mode, showing the contents of the last-opened folder in Dreamweaver. If

Adobe

Bridge was already open, it becomes the active window.

Note: Adobe Bridge is only installed with Dreamweaver CS5 when you install Creative Suite CS5; it is not included with

the standalone version of Dreamweaver CS5. However, Adobe Bridge was included if you previously installed

Dreamweaver CS3 or CS4, so if you still have Adobe Bridge installed from those versions, Dreamweaver CS5 can access

it and use it.

Placing files into Dreamweaver from Adobe Bridge

You can insert files into Dreamweaver pages by inserting them or by dragging them from Adobe Bridge into your page.

The Dreamweaver document in which you want to insert the file must be open and in Design view to use this feature.

You can insert most file types into your pages, but Dreamweaver handles them differently:

• If you insert a web-ready image (JPEG, GIF, or PNG), Dreamweaver inserts the image files directly into your page

and places a copy in your website’s default images folder.

• If you insert a Photoshop PSD file, you need to define its optimization settings before Dreamweaver can place it in

your page.

• If you insert a non-image file, such as mp3, PDF, or a file with an unknown file type, Dreamweaver inserts a link to

the source file.

• If you insert an HTML file, Dreamweaver inserts a link to the source file.

• (Windows only) If you have Microsoft Office installed and you are inserting a Microsoft Word or Excel file, you

must specify if you want to insert the file itself or insert a link to the source file. If you want to insert the file, you

can specify how much of the file’s formatting you want to keep.