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Update Link, Update All Links, SHORTCUT?

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August 14, 2013
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Found a great way to work live, on the iPad, from the computer.

BUT, Adobe being Adobe, it's not perfect.

If I click to "Edit Original" and then edit, and save, I must switch back to InDesign before it actually does the update.

That's problem 1. I'd really rather not have to make that switch back. Any way around that?

Second, haivng switched back to InDesign to get that "live" update, if I [Command + Tab] back to the editing app, the "live" updating link is lost, so the next change I make I must go back to InDesign and use the TINY little button at the top of the screen to find the Update Link choice.

I'd much rather a Keyboard Shortcut for Update All Links, rather than having to deal with this.

Better yet, constant live updates would be epic. Anyways to do this?

Correct answer JoaoCP

@dissidently: You can define a shortcut for the Update All Links command. It's in the Panel Menus area of the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box. Look for "Links: Update All Links".

@Sandee: I guess the original poster is using some kind of screen sharing application (like VNC) on his iPad, mirroring his Mac. The tiny little button he mentioned may be the yellow triangle with an exclamation point that appears on the top of changed-but-not-yet-updated image frames in ID.

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@dissidently: You can define a shortcut for the Update All Links command. It's in the Panel Menus area of the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box. Look for "Links: Update All Links".

@Sandee: I guess the original poster is using some kind of screen sharing application (like VNC) on his iPad, mirroring his Mac. The tiny little button he mentioned may be the yellow triangle with an exclamation point that appears on the top of changed-but-not-yet-updated image frames in ID.

Sandee Cohen

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This is interesting. How are you editing the ID file on the iPad? A new piece of software? Or something else? I don't understand, though, why you need live updating regardless of the means you are using. If you are editing on the iPad, I would assume you are not near your computer. Perhaps sitting on the couch, in bed, taking a bath. Why do you need live updating? Isn't your computer far away from the iPad? If the computer is right next to the iPad—which it sounds like it is—why don't you just edit the document on the computer? The idea of live updating doesn't sound so important. All linked items—images, text, etc—require someone to go back to the ID document to update. And what is the TINY little button? I'm really intrigued by this workflow as I would love to sit on the couch with my iPad editing ID documents.

dissidentlyAuthor

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I should be more clear, here's some background on what I was trying to do:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5585135#5585135

I'm editing in Illustrator on the Mac, a placed piece of art that sits nicely in a perfectly sized InDesign file (2048x`1536) that's being pumped out to the iPad via the magic of AirDisplay.

What I want is to be able to edit in microcosm (in Illustrator) and see the updates live, in the context of the entire UI that I'm designing that's layed out in InDesign and being "broadcast" to the iPad for constant review.

Does that help understand what I'm trying to do?

dissidentlyAuthor

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There's a difference between constructive criticism and whining. There's

also a right place and right way to make suggestions.

You're doing all of them wrong.

Here's the feature request page:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

It's been pointed out to your before. And you need to make a real good

case for why something would be helpful to the majority of users, so I

would write up the request offline and then paste it in.

and then what happens?

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