Preview image size in Adobe Bridge??

[Juliana Radeff]

Hi! I've just updated to Adobe 2020 and when using Bridge, I can't make the preview image big enough... it just appears as a small image. 
It shows you how to make the miniature size bigger, but no the Preview image.

..any tips? thanks!

[Guest]

Moving to the Bridge forum from Get Started

[jbm007]

Thats becuase its rendering what ever the preview file was.

What type of image?

What OS?

You have a screen shot?

You can use the space bar to go full screen and then zoom to 800%

[Juliana Radeff]

thanks for answering!

It's mostly with pdf and .ai files.

I attach a couple of screenshots.

[TimO7712]

Magnification in a full-screen preview, a click zooms to the current zoom level, which is 100% by default. Pressing + or - increases or decreases this magnification in additional zooms of 200%, 400%, and 800%. There are no other amounts, and this is not user-configurable.

You can post a feature request in the Photoshop feedback website: -

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

[gary_sc]

The Preview image in Bridge has two limitations: one is that it can only show an image UP TO 100% of the actual image size. So if you have an image that is (say) 5000 pixels wide, it's very likely to fill up your screen. But if you have an image that is (say) 500 pixels wide, it will not fill up the screen whether you are viewing in Preview pane, Space bar, or any other option.

The 2nd issue is that on files such as Illustrator, InDesign, or PDF files, it will only be as big as the thumbnails generated by those applications (as you have discovered). The reason for this is that these applications are structured to be vector based content and when rasterized, there is a default resolution to the file of 72 dpi (very very low) and that's the only way that the image will be viewed as sharp (a very small image). If they were "allowed" to show at any size, they will appear blurry.

For example, you can see this in Illustrator where, when saving the image, you can turn off saving it as a PDF Compatible File which WILL allow the page's image to show up full sized (any size) in the Preview pane of Bridge, but it will be dreadfully fuzzy as one would expect it to be as it has 72 dpi resolution. And, since Bridge can only show raster images, that's the best you're going to see.

So unless Bridge can display vector images (and that's not going to happen in our life's time), this is the best you're going to get. Very sorry.

[Juliana Radeff]

wow! thanks Gary for the detailed explanation.

It looks like I will have to get used to see my pdf in a small size, then.

have a good day 🙂

[NickStuart]

Crowd-sourced help and community forums are typically useless, but gary_sc really "hits it out of the park" with his detailed and eminently useful explanations. Thanks for taking the time to answer this question.