Links : the "Replace Selected items" option?
Just a random rant about this option I always like to use since my prepress Illustrator days.
We were dealing with loads of imported images and had to modify them in Photoshop constantly. When "updating" the Link, to preserve our local editing (scaling, rotation, whatever) we always checked the "Replace" option in the Import dialog, for the times we didn't not go through the Links palette which was the "prefered" method (I did not make the rules).
So I always took for grant that "re-importing" over any existing elements presupposed that there *was* an element to be replaced but in InDesign, suppose I create an empty frame : when I select the frame and launch the Import command on it, is there really an element in the frame at that time? Or is it not "empty"? What I don't understand from a semantic point of view is why force the use of the Option in that case, in order for the imported link to land in the selected element? If I don't tick that checkbox, the import link appears in a loaded cursor under the mouse pointer.
To me, if the frame is empty, there is NOTHING to "replace"? Yes? No?
It's a silly little detail on the face of it but when explaining the base import technique in the classroom, it always takes a few extra "Teacher CPU cycles" to explain the behavior.
End of Rant 🙂
Always thought Rome wasn't build in one day.
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