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353 Use Adobe Bridge to find fonts - InDesign Tutorial

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353 Use Adobe Bridge to find fonts

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- [Instructor] Hey kids, have you ever wanted to search through a whole mess of InDesign files looking to see which one used a particular font or a particular Pantone color? I'm gonna show you a fast way to do that that is really not within InDesign, but it's within Adobe Bridge. And before I talk to you about that and it's really simple, don't get scared by Bridge, let's take a look at the document in InDesign. Here's just one file that's open and you could go to the swatches panel, of course, to see which swatches it uses, or you could go to the type menu, choose find font, and see the fonts that it uses and there are probably some ways to use find change dialogue box to do the same kind of searching. But it would be very tedious if I had to do a search across, say, five or 10 or 50 different documents or everything in a client's project folder, for example, and that's when you'd wanna use Bridge. So I'm gonna close this up and switch to Adobe Bridge. I've already downloaded it and opened it up, this is the default view when you first open it up. If you're not familiar with Bridge, really quickly, it's just a different way of looking at all the files on your hard drive, kind of like Explorer on Windows or the finder on a Mac, all your files are available right here and you can do all sorts of fun stuff with it. There's lots of other videos that we've done in this title and that, in the online training library as well, all about Bridge. I'm gonna go ahead and quit out of it for now. If you don't have Bridge, go to your Creative Cloud app, go to the app section, and scroll down to find where Bridge is and then install it. They've been updating it, it's been part of the Adobe pantheon of creative apps since I can't remember when. I think since the Stone Age, I believe. Go ahead and install it, it's now at Bridge CC 2018, as I record this, and I keep it in my dock here or I keep a shortcut on my desktop and I keep it in favorites on Windows because this is what I frequently do. I wanna see if a particular font or a particular color's being used in a group of files. Here I have five different InDesign files in a folder called book files. What I normally do is just drag and drop it right on top of the icon and then release. What that does is it starts the program up and it shows you what's inside there. It immediately goes there. Of course, you can always start hunting through these folders to find it. If I went to my desktop, I could see these are the three folders on my desktop, for example, and I could open it there. Then how do you do a search? Just go to edit and choose find or press command or control F, and it knows that you want to look in book files, it's looking at what you're seeing right here in book files, and here's the little bread crumb trail so it's looking in book files, that's what it's reading. What you want to do is under criteria, and I was using this before, it normally starts out like with this, with the first bit of meta data. These are all different kinds of meta data. You don't need to search for font, in fact, I don't even think font is in here. But just go down to all meta data and then enter the name of what you're looking for. Enter the color name, enter the font name. Doesn't have to perfect, doesn't have to be case sensitive. It can be a partial name. In this case, I know that one of these documents uses the tisa font, a type kit font that I don't really wanna use but I don't know where it is so that I can open it and replace it with the font that I want to use. Pay attention to what's happening down here. If I had sub folders in here, it would also search inside the sub folders. And don't worry about this include non-index files, just keep it turned on, don't worry about it. And then click find. A-ha, there it goes. There's the bad boy, alright. So I can select that and in the meta data panel on the right in Bridge, if you start scrolling, you will find, there it is, I always pass it too fast, all of the documents swatches and all of the fonts. Now, it doesn't tell you exactly where in the document tisa pro is being used in this case, you would have to then just double click it, which would open it up in InDesign. It's just like the finder or Explorer, like I said, just an alternate look. Now, if you didn't find what you wanted, you can always just click new search and then, you know, edit what you are searching for here. You could also look somewhere else. So I could click on desktop, for example, and tell it to look in files, press command F. Oh, it's remembering desktop because I didn't double click that so I'm gonna say let's just go ahead and search everything on desktop, meta data contains tisa, include all the sub folders, find. Oh, there's two documents on my desktop that are using that font. There you go. I love this feature of being able to quickly find fonts and colors used in any of my InDesign documents simply by searching for them in Bridge.

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