Moving photoshop onto a dual display

Buko,<br /><br />I'm just the messenger... <g><br /><br />Neil

Neil you can drag the options bar at the top onto any monitor you want it. The Mac version of Photoshop does not have a container like the Windows version(Thank god) if it did I would certainly disable it first thing. But that does not stop you from moving things around like the options bar. Now just save the workspace, once you save a workspace its there until you delete it.

The nice thing about workspaces is you can save as many as you want.

Buko,

I think he just wants the convenience of a redundant top menu bar. He's unhappy that Win boxes can do that, and he finds that Macs can't.

On the other hand, Mac shortcuts eliminate a lot of back-and-forth travel to the menu bar.

Neil

jake you make no sense.

Many of are successfully using 2 and even 3 monitors. So you need to Pick a monitor designate it as your main monitor. Now place your panels on the second monitor. save your workspace.

Oh come on- do i really need to explain to you what the problem is then?

THERE'S STILL ONLY ONE TITLE BAR!

Going on your logic i'd need to open system preferences, go to display, go to arrangement and drag the title bar over every time i wanted to switch between applications if i want to be able to see the whole interface.

Just imagine you're working in Photoshop on one screen and Dreamweaver on the other building a website. You constantly need to flick between applications therefore it's best to use a dual monitor if you can but it's pretty frustrating if:

a) the title bar for BOTH applications stay in one monitor
b) you have to go through systems preferences every time you want to move the title bar over

>Believe me i want this to work and i love Macs but it does look like the PC features are superior.

Mac 101...

Open the Displays prefs, select Arrangement and drag the title bar from one to the other display...you might want to LEARN how to use Macs before you presume they are inferior.

Hey Neil

Cheers for the post. I'm not actually new to Macs but have been working on a PC for the last year at work and i basically know there is a difference between the two in what they can do regarding the above issues now.

I definitely 100% have my monitors set up correctly (not mirrored or anything stupid like that). I've done the whole detect monitors thing and sorted out the resolution, calibrated the colours blah blah blah.... so i know they're working basically.

The problem is that the top main menu bar (not the palettes or tools etc) WILL ONLY OPEN IN THE MAIN DISPLAY. I can move the palettes and tools and everything else over to the second monitor independently but the main menu (File , Edit, Image, Layer, Select...etc) will only stay in the main monitor. This becomes annoying when you have to keep going between screens if you want to work on your second display. Coming from the PC environment you can literally drag the whole application (not just the palettes) onto the second screen if you like and work from there.

Right problem number two. If anyone still doesn't see what i'm going on about regarding the fonts then please just try and do this and let me know if it works for you ----->

Open Photoshop, create a new file, type a word onto the canvas and select the word. Now go to the font palette but DO NOT PRESS THE BLUE DROP DOWN ARROW but simple click your cursor over the name of the font in the text field within the text palette (to the left of the blue arrow). Now scroll up and down using the arrows on your key board. As you do this you can clearly see the text that you wrote onto the page changes in accordance to you using the arrows to scroll through the fonts. This is obviously a nice feature since you can see exactly how that font type will look on a particular word (not just the preview on the font family name that you get when you press the blue drop down arrow).

NOW TRY AND DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING IN ILLUSTRATOR. I'm afraid it looks like it can't be done after my best efforts and by other peoples mentioned in the link above.

Believe me i want this to work and i love Macs but it does look like the PC features are superior.

Jake

P.S I am aware that this isn't Adobe that i'm speaking to but what i said before was just a general moan

Jake,
>Found some links where other people are having the same issue with the dual displays

If I understand your concern, in the broad context, it's not an issue setting up your monitors and main menu bar. It's setting up your monitor preferences. [blue apple logo] --> System Preferences --> Displays

Your setup for selecting monitor 1 (main display), resolution, etc. are there. I don't have a two-monitor setup now, but in the past it was not much more than dragging the monitor icons and menu bar icon to where you want them.

If there is an Adobe-specific issue with moving palettes, I suggest you file a bug report with Adobe. Remember, we're just your peers; not Adobe.

And I'm still not sure what the issue with fonts is. If you have a lot of fonts, you should manage them so that you don't have a gazillion fonts activated at once. Check out Font Agent Pro -- the best of the font managers for Macs. There's a full-function demo to try. Or, Linotype has a free Mac font manager that is pretty decent.

Note that for best system performance, workflow, and your sanity, beyond required system fonts, just activate the fonts you need for the day's session. You can organize them in sets, such as by job or client to make it easy. And then, no long scroll list.

In addition, Photoshop has a limit with how many fonts can be activated and displayed in its menus. I don't know if that is also a Windows issue, but at least on Macs, if you have hundreds of activated fonts, you may not be able to select a font down near the end of the alphabet.

In any case, you should be able to call up an activated font you need by typing in just the first few letters of its name.

Neil

Hi guys

Found some links where other people are having the same issue with the dual displays and then with the scrolling through fonts thing (only a problem in Illustrator). Maybe they describe it better than me.

This link is to do with the dragging applications onto a separate window. I know the original post is old but the more relevant comments further down are from 2007/2008

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/12/photoshop_cs3_workspace_dock.html

and the scrolling through fonts issue can be seen at

Scott Weichert, "Scrolling Through Font Faces in Mac? Hot Key?" #1, 23 Nov 2007 6:20 pm

Cheers for your time- come on Adobe, sort it out!

Jake you just need to lean how to use your new Mac. follow neil's direction. Macs don't use application containers.

as far as the fonts

highlight the text.

highlight the font

use the up down arrows