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Using the Links panel

Using the Links panel - InDesign Tutorial

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Using the Links panel

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- [Instructor] I want to open this file from the exercise files folder. It's the one with a B at the end. To do that, I'm going to double click on it. When I do that, InDesign opens the file but I get this alert dialogue box. What's that about? Well, you have to know that when you import a picture into InDesign using place or by dragging in a file from disk, InDesign does not actually embed the image into your InDesign document. Instead, you get a thumbnail preview of the image and a link to the file on disk. And this happens with any image file, whether you import a PDF or a JPEG or TIF 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 now InDesign is asking me, what do you want to do? If I…

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