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Chapter 1 ✦ What’s New in Illustrator CS2?
Bridge also allows you to apply metadata — various types of information about your
files, such as who created them, your copyright notice, and so on. To apply meta-
data, you click an item in the Metadata pane of the Bridge window. You can modify
only certain metadata properties. The properties you can modify have a pencil icon
to the right of the data.
One of the handier features in the Bridge window is the thumbnail size slider along
the bottom edge of the window. You can drag the slider to the right to make the
thumbnails larger or to the left to make them smaller. This feature allows you to
easily locate specific files, especially if you have saved several versions of a file con-
taining slight differences.
If you have additional Adobe Creative Suite applications beyond Illustrator, Bridge
also supports automating tasks between applications and setting global color set-
tings for all the applications.
Enhancing Illustrator with Photoshop Import
Enhancements
Illustrator CS2 also adds support for Photoshop layer comps when you place a
Photoshop file into an Illustrator document. Layer comps are multiple compositions
of a page layout that you create in order to have multiple versions of a layout within
a single Photoshop file. Using layer comps allows you to show a client several ver-
sions of the layout from a single file.
Figure 1-6 shows the Photoshop Import Options dialog box displaying a Photoshop
file containing multiple layer comps. You use the Layer Comp drop-down list (pop-
up menu) at the top of the dialog box to choose which of the comps you want to
import into your Illustrator document.
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