I’ve got the exact same problem here. I move Bridge to the primary monitor and everything goes back to normal…move back to the secondary monitor and it stays okay for awhile.
Bob
I have similar issues … I want the Preview on my primary monitor and the rest of the panels on my secondary one. But the preview for some images is messed up, there is a pattern through it. As soon as I collapse Bridge down to the primary monitor only, it is ok.
Bridge in CS3 has a much neater was of using dual monitors.
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+N opens a second, syncronised, instance of Bridge. This means you can set up the preview pane full screen on your main monitor and have the content, filter, and file-tree panes on the other. Because the two instances of Bridge are syncronised, selecting one or more thumnails on one will cause them to display in the preview pane of the other.
This is the perfect set-up for dual monitor users ever!
Chris.
All well and good if all you want to do is run Bridge. I use it in conjuction with InDesign which is full screen on my primary monitor.
Bob
Exactly Bob. I use Bridge on the secondary screen and PS or InDesign on my primary. Now I can’t. And I’m unhappy.
Rob
This is really peculiar.
I just moved the Preview pane to the left side of the Bridge window and stuck the meta, keywords, favorites etc. on the right and left the Content in the middle.
Now the Preview pane works correctly. Or at least it shows the current Content picture when I click on it. It still shows remnants of other screens if I resize it so it isn’t really working absolutely correctly
If I move it back to the right side, it craps out again.
I also find it extremely difficult to split panels which are tabbed together into vertically separated panels. I can do it but I can’t figure out a foolproof way of doing it easily every time.
Rob
Although this is not a great fix, it is a fix. If you enable software rendering under "Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced" it solves the issue. Unfortunately, it renders slower for me and the animations are very choppy, but it does preview and for the time being may work for you.
Ryan
I’ll try it and see if it’s better than moving the Preview pane to the left which also works.
Thanks for the info Ryan.
Rob
They had dual monitor problems in CS3 Beta and I guess they never completely fixed them. I guess no one has a dual monitor system at Adobe!
All well and good if all you want to do is run Bridge. I use it in conjunction with InDesign which is full screen on my primary monitor.
Bob. You don’t have to use both, or either, of the "twinned" Bridges full screen. I’ve found a useful configuration which gives me a quarter-screen preview pane on one monitor and a thumbnail strip right across the bottom of the other monitor.
The new panes system is highly configurable and, of course, can be saved as workspaces.
They had dual monitor problems in CS3 Beta and I guess they never completely fixed them.
I used the Beta version with great success for the last three months. No "problems" just minor niggles which have all been fixed.
I know how I CAN use. It’s just not the way I WANT to use it. I’m sure they’ll get around to fixing it.
Bob
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+N opens a second, synchronized, instance of Bridge. This means you can set up the preview pane full screen on your main monitor and have the content, filter, and file-tree panes on the other. Because the two instances of Bridge are synchronized, selecting one or more thumbnails on one will cause them to display in the preview pane of the other.
This is the best set-up for dual monitor users – ever! ‘
Chris that is not an improvement on simply having the preview pane on a single instance of Bridge filling right monitor. It’s simply a klunky bodge to work around a bug. And it doesn’t actually work with this rendering issue anyway.
Is the file info text also messed up on your preview window?
