For an individual who doesn’t perform such tasks as part of their essential job functions, the entire suite of applications would take up a significant as well as unnecessary amount of storage space and system resources on a computer. If you don’t currently perform any of the aforementioned tasks, we don’t recommend having the application installed.
What Is Adobe Creative Cloud and Do I Need It?Īdobe Creative Cloud is a collection of software for graphic design, video editing, web development, and photography. Individuals who need access to the suite of applications, and have an existing computer, can submit a request for installation. Like Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud will be pre-installed on all newly deployed computers going forward. cclibs file (Figure 4).Solution home General Supported Software Adobe Creative Cloud AvailabilityĪdobe Creative Cloud is now a part of the standard suite of applications available for installation on all Lesley University owned computers. You’re given the opportunity to select a folder in your file system to save the library contents as a. Go to the flyout menu at the top of the panel and choose Export. To export a library, select any library in the CC Libraries panel in InDesign (or another application). This can be used for creating backup archives, extracting individual graphics, or other uses.
This is also an opportunity to show off an unannounced new CC Library feature which arrived with the Bulk Upload update and is now available from the CC Libraries panels of all participating Adobe applications, including InDesign: You now have the opportunity to export and import the contents of libraries to your local file system. Exporting and Importing Libraries in Any Application However, transparent PNG and SVG files always import with transparency when dragged from a library.
That behavior has not changed, and there is no other way to choose import preferences for libraries. The setting is “sticky” and is applied to placing other Illustrator graphics either with File > Place or by dragging from a library. In order to have them import as transparent from a library, it’s necessary to first place (File > Place) an Illustrator graphic with Show Import Options turned on and check Transparent Background to establish that setting. Dragging Illustrator Files to Libraries Hasn’t ChangedĪs has been discovered with previous versions of CC Libraries, there is a limitation when dragging transparent Illustrator graphics from a library. Then you can easily select multiple graphics from any folder you navigate to and drag them from the Bridge Content panel to any CC library you select (Figure 1).įor more information about using Creative Cloud libraries in Bridge, refer to this Adobe Help document.įigure 3: The button that controls quality and previews of individual Bridge thumbnails also controls transparency display. Or you can choose the new Libraries workspace which makes the Libraries panel large and by itself. In Adobe Bridge, you can choose the new Libraries panel from the Window menu and group it with any other panel group.
Keith demonstrated dragging graphics from your operating system (Mac Finder or Windows Explorer), but Adobe Bridge makes the process a lot easier. You can read much more about how CC Libraries work in InDesign Magazine #83, March 2016. Once you have the graphics in a CC library and you’re in InDesign, you can right-click on the graphic and choose Place Linked (which creates a link to the library) or Place Copy (which places an unlinked copy of the graphic). Previously, you had to add graphic files individually into a library from the application that edited them before you could place them in InDesign. Keith wrote how he discovered you can drag and drop multiple graphic files (AI, PNG, BMP, PSD, SVG, GIF, JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF and PDF) directly into a CC Library. In fact, the update makes easy a feature that Keith Gilbert wrote about in May of this year in a posting called Drag and Drop Graphics into CC Libraries.
CC Libraries Support in Adobe BridgeĪdobe Bridge now has full CC Libraries support. The Adobe Bridge CC 2018 update this month has added some new features for working with graphics and Creative Cloud Libraries.