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• • May 16, 2010 at 5:32 pm #55718
    Aleta El Sheikh

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    I think I know the difference between snippets and libraries, but I don't understand why one would be preferred over the other. It seems they both do the same thing, but are just stored and accessed differently.

    I'm interested to know whether you folks favor one over the other, and why. Or is there a time and place for both?

  • May 17, 2010 at 3:04 am #55719
    Anonymous

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    I prefere snippets because I find the Library to be slow and clunky. I never liked using the library in InDesign.

  • May 17, 2010 at 9:03 am #55725
    Bob Levine

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    Another benefit of snippets is that they can be saved in a folder accessable to multiple users. Combine that with mini bridge and you've got, IMO, an excellent way of accessing those snippets.

  • May 17, 2010 at 11:57 pm #55739
    Roland

    Member

    I never used Snippets before (hadn't found a use for them yet) but now I finally got one, thanks to Bob's mention of the Mini Bridge.

    I'm working on a catalog which will have “chapter covers” that'll contain a grid of 6 frames that'll be filled with 5 images and one short introduction. I'd normally make a dummy page containing the empty frames (and whatever else I'd need on all of those pages) with their settings applied and then copy & paste from there when I needed the items.
    Turns out, with CS5 you can't just drag from the Mini Bridge, but also to it, creating snippets so easily it's almost stupid not to use them.

    Now I'm off to the Adobe site to request some Mini Bridge features for CS6…

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