From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
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Using the Links panel - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Using the Links panel
- [Instructor] I'm going to open this document from the Exercise Files folder, the one that ends with underscore B. I'll open it by double-clicking on it. And when InDesign opens the file, I get this alert dialog box. What's that about? Well, when you import a picture into InDesign using place or by dragging in a file from disk, InDesign doesn't actually embed the image into your document. Instead, you get a thumbnail preview of the image and a link to the file on disk. This happens with any image file, whether you import a PDF or a JPEG or a TIFF or whatever. And so when I opened this document, InDesign went looking for all the linked images on disk, and one of them was totally missing. It just couldn't find it. And one of them had been modified. That is, somebody had edited the image since the last time I imported it. So InDesign's asking me what do I want to do? If I click Update Links, it will update all the…
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