![]() ![]() I can share that folder of snippets with anyone with a internet connection and he/she can add snippets to it for both of us to use. In the screenshot above you may notice that the folder of snippets is being saved in a Dropbox folder. ![]() The last item is key for me especially since I’ve been involved in a number of collaborative projects lately. Folders can be shared and managed by multiple users.Folders of snippets don’t leave remnants in your recent files list.Mini Bridge offers the ability to view the previews at any comfortable size.I can just use a library for that, but (you had to know there was but coming) the combination of Mini Bridge and snippets hold several advantages over libraries that have convinced me to never use libraries again. Mini Bridge displays a folder of snippets This will bring up a dialog box allowing you to choose where to save the snippet and what to name it. The second, and my preferred method, is to select the item(s) and use the File > Export command to export the snippet. Hardly what I’d call efficient in the long run. The file will be sitting on your desktop.InDesign will assign a file name that begins with the word snippet but is hardly very descriptive.The first is to just select the item(s) and drag to the desktop. Anything that can sit on an InDesign page can be saved as a snippet. ![]() Think about a logo, a button, or even a text block. Snippets are, quite simply, little pieces of an InDesign layout that can be saved for use over and over again. Mini Bridge, for those of you unaware ,was added to InDesign CS5 and as the name implies, is a compact version of Adobe Bridge. I’d like to call your attention to two of my favorites, Snippets and Mini Bridge. InDesign is jam packed with features and because of that many of them are overlooked. ![]()
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