CS2: Thumbnails in "save as…" when using "Adobe Dialog"

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Dan_Heller
Apr 28, 2005
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I fyou do a "save as…" and then select the option at the bottom-left, "Use Adobe Dialog", you now have the ability to see the thumbnails of the images in any given directory. However, the dialog seems to generate anew all thumbnails for all images in every directory. It doesn’t seem to cache any of them, nor does it use a cache store from the file browser. It’s incredibly slow and frustrating, and I’m only reading tif files around 33M each. That’s not a lot. It almost makes the feature impractical, despite its highly desired benefit.

Dan Heller
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Rbanks
Apr 28, 2005
no cache for that, sorry
DH
Dan_Heller
Apr 28, 2005
there’s a thumbnail image stored in the exif tag of the file, and that’s pretty snappy to read. why not just get that and speed up the whole process?

dan
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chrisjbirchall
Apr 28, 2005
and then select the option at the bottom-left, "Use Adobe Dialog",

No "Use Adobe Dialog" option on my ‘Save as’ box. In fact the dialogue box is exactly the same as in CS.

Chris
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chrisjbirchall
Apr 28, 2005
Re the above post:

Has anyone else found this option is missing from their ‘Save As’ dialogue box?
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Chris_Cox
Apr 28, 2005
Chris – that is only there is VersionCue is enabled. (although Photoshop defaults to using the OS dialog instead of the VersionCue dialog).
DH
Dan Heller
Apr 28, 2005
Chris–

It’s also in the Open dialog.
dan
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Chris_Cox
Apr 28, 2005
Yes, they’re controlled by the same things.
DH
Dan Heller
Apr 28, 2005
Yes, they’re controlled by the same things.

Understood. And since we’re on this thread, I want to tie it into — and bring closure to — the one we were having here <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.3bba11c7>, regarding thumbnailing, and bring closure to it.

You said that the thumbnail-generation code in "bridge" is not tied in with those done in CS2.

I commented that they should be tied together to save on system resources and optimize performance.

You said that they are separate code bases, so doing so is not possible.

I replied that it is possible through any form of interprocess communications and/or a shared thumbnail cache on disk.

My final point on the matter is that this type of thing is not unusual among apps that have to share data, and there are many development protocols and tools on every platform for doing this without requiring sharing a code base. Since the bridge was separated into a separate app, there has been a big penalty in performance of CS2 (not Bridge) because thumbnails aren’t shared. I would have thought this would have been foreseen the moment anyone suggested breaking the file-browser out into a separate app, but since it didn’t, I’m concerned that there still isn’t a perception that there’s a problem.

I didn’t intent to argue the point–just to bring it up, query about its status, and render a proposal for dealing with it. I didn’t expect a lot of these points to be so rigorously "defended" or that there was a denial (through non-statement) that it was a problem.

Be that as it may, I’ll just leave it at that, and we can all move on. 🙂 dan

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