I’m amazed to find there are still designers out there that struggle with Adobe’s tabbed document interface when trying to get objects from one document into a second one, rather than copy and pasting them. The process is a simple drag and drop operation in both CS4 and CS5 apps.
Document tabs offer simple drag & drop convenience
Select your objects and drag them from the current document over to the second document’s tab and hover there for a second or two. The second document will come to the front, allowing you to drop the objects on the page.
This does not work for me. Please help! This is BUGGING me! I am using CS5.
Works for me in Photoshop, but not Indesign.
As Ron clarified, it certainly isn’t my intention to tell you how to work. However, I find that many times when I learn a faster way to do something, I almost always adopt it because, well, it’s faster. I was simply pointing out that there is a faster way to do something. Obviously, it doesn’t work for everyone’s workflow… but it’s there.
I don’t think it was his intention to criticize anyone that does not use the Tab feature, but rather just to inform us of the option. We all have our work flow routines that we use every day, this is just another option for us to know about. Even though I won’t use this method, it’s nice to know it’s there. If you want to talk about useless work flow ideas, lets talk Adobe Bridge. A total waste of time and disk space!
I’m amazed to find there are still designers out there that tell other designers how to work. Workflows are different. Methods are different. Habits are different. Usually your tips & tricks are useful, but keep in mind what works for you may not work for others. And try not to undermine other users who don’t adopt your methods.
Cheers
Found a way.
In Illustrator, go to:
Window > Application frame (click on that if it’s de-activated)
then go to:
Preferences > File Handling > Open Documents as Tabs.
That should do it :).
Maybe it is Mac OS X only function?
I am running CS4 Design Premium on Win XP SP2 and it has never worked since I got it in 2008.
I can’t do this, help!.
I try to drag the document to the top-left corner of my illustrator window, but I can’t get it to work as it did in CS4.
Anything I’m missing, something I need to activate BEFORE I can do this?
Help?, Pretty please?
Now, if you could only drag layers from the Ps Layers panel to the tab of another document. (Perhaps they made it so you can in CS5?). In CS4, at least, you had to drag content from the actual document window.
Hm. Didn’t work for me.
Two seconds too long. People are used to finder that responds faster…