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InDesign Links?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 22, 2022
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An InDesign feature that seems completely aribitrary and unnecessary is the links.

Now, whenever making a text-only update on an existing InDesign file, it cannot be converted to PDF unless or until these links are re-established even if I don't touch the images or logos in the document.

This is just one page, doing this on a multi-page document is extremenly time consuming and seems

completely unncesssary.

What is this all about?

Is anyone in San Jose paying attention?

BHW

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Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Here is a user to user forum. From San Jose will not be many here. And InDesign people are mostly in Seattle.

If you are always loosing the links, make a package to save all links of a file in a distinct folder. You need these links.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

I hardly ever have problems with InDesign links.

Are you working off of a server or using a cloud storage service with a "files on demand" feature?

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

Barton WorkmanAuthor

Participating Frequently

Nope.

InDesign is part of my ACS package. All files, images, logos, etc. are kept on my computer,

all in the same file and could not be any more organized.

No cloud, no this, no that. Everything right together where it belongs.

Why would I want to do it any other way?

BHW

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

In more complex environments, assets can be kept on servers, in shared cloud storage, etc. (Even I use a server in what's an essentially one-man office, for file management and backup.)

If you've linked the files and aren't moving, renaming or modifying them, ID should not give any link warnings.

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Steve Werner

Community Expert

It's not that you can't make a PDF when the links are out-of-date. It's just that any images in the file which are unavailable will be reproduced using the low-resolution placeholders. There is now way to get the full resolution image without relinking to the original source.

Barton WorkmanAuthor

Participating Frequently

Not sure I understand what links are "out of date" means.

Even if I work on this document on a daily basis, which I do, how are links falling out of date?

What's the workaround on this? Can these links be turned off somehow?

BHW

Steve Werner

Community Expert

I should have said Missing. InDesign can't fine the original that the link points to.

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