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Using the Links panel

Using the Links panel - InDesign Tutorial

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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 is asking me, what do I want to do? If I click Update Links, it will update all…

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