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Hello! My team saves our INDD files and applicable links in a team SharePoint location. Lately, it's not uncommon to open a file and have the link appear to be correct but the document shows a rectangle frame rather than an image preview. When exporting to a print PDF, the rectangle frame actually prints. When I go to relink (even though the link is not broken), it abridges the file path and the link name. I did a clean reinstall of InDesign. I also did a clean resync to our SharePoint location but I'm still having the same issue. Is there some type of setting I need to tweak? I know the SharePoint setup isn't ideal but it's worked for us for a few years now and, all of a sudden, I'm having major issues. Here's how a link now displays, always with the "~1".
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With no documents open, and you go to Preferences > Display Performance : Are your View Settings set to High Quality?
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They are not and I just updated them to be so. This is a nice tweak but does not resolve my issue.
I just opened a document I haven't touched for a few months and an example of what I see is below. All image links are saved in the same SharePoint location. Some preview, some just show the Gray Rectangle frame. All links are showing as being valid. If I relink the ones showing the Gray Rectangle frame, it does then display properly. I have to do them one-by-one because InDesign doesn't recognize them as missing or broken. When I relink, though, it creates an abridged link name and file path that doesn't work for other users.
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Hi @Christopher5C4C ,
could you share the whole path of the placed AI file?
Perhaps this path is too long. Just a guess.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )
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@Laubender Fair guess but the links do work for other folks. Below is a slightly redacted link (# of characters is accurate).
C:\Users\AAO3290\MyDigitalSpace\XXSourcing & Product Development - Documents\Product & Sales Collateral\MABC1-23\12345678 - ABCD EFGHIJ\ABC#XXXXXX - Multi-Zone ODUs\03-Working Support Files\Manual Images\Cover Image V1.0 03152022.ai