Here's one I've never encountered (Win7 x64). When Bridge tries to preview a particular EPS (Illustrator 8 EPSF originally, but same result when converted to IA CS5 EPS), it essentially ceases to function. Navigation still works, but Bridge won't show any file data or thumbnails for any other documents. Bridge.exe shows in taskmgr as using 50% of CPU resources non-stop, and memory usage simply climbs gradually and continuously, apparently forever. Quitting Bridge shoots CPU usage to 99% (bridge.exe continues to run as a background task, even though it is NOT set to start automatically with the system) and continues to grab memory space. It has to be killed via taskmgr.
This behavior survives all the usual remedies (resetting prefs, purging cache, etc.). The file itself opens normally in Illustrator CS5, and can be saved out with no problem, so it's not that it's corrupted. Versions of the file saved in IA format do not exhibit the problem. I submitted all this as a bug.
Here's the really odd part: in order to preserve the file for use by Adobe (figuring someone would likely email to ask for a copy), I renamed the file by adding ".problem" to the filename (xxx.eps.problem), at which point Bridge parsed the file instantly, produced a thumbnail and recognized it, despite the new file extension, as an Illustrator EPSF.
I'm throwing this info out in case anyone runs into the same issue, and out of interest should any of the IA or Bridge gurus care to comment.
Alan
