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4. Select the file that corresponds to the file name in the Find dialog box title bar, and then
click Open (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS).
If all of the other missing graphics are stored in the same folder, all of their links will be
resolved immediately. If some graphics aren’t found in the first folder you specified, you’ll
be asked for their folder locations until all are found. For this reason, you may want to
advise customers to store all of their document’s graphics in the same folder. To avoid
linking errors, pay attention to the exact filename and location InDesign is requesting.
5. Click the Update Link button (
) to make sure the document uses the latest version
of all linked graphics.
Note:
Links in multiple folders are relinked or updated when each folder is opened using the
Relink command.
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Customers have the option of embedding any linked graphics file in a document. As a
service provider you may want to discourage this practice because it makes troubleshooting
more difficult, and increases InDesign file sizes by the size of each embedded file. For these
reasons, graphics placed into InDesign are linked by default.
Fortunately for service providers, embedded files are easy to manage in InDesign CS. When
you embed a linked graphic, the filename remains in the Links palette, marked by the
Embedded icon (
). In addition, InDesign CS remembers the graphic’s original location
and lets you unembed it (meaning you can relink the embedded graphic to an externally
stored file, if one is available). Note that unembedding is only available for placed graphics;
pasted graphics can’t be unembedded. You may want to remind customers that placing
graphics generally provides more flexibility and higher quality than pasting graphics. (There
are a few cases where pasting can be desirable, such as pasting Adobe Illustrator paths into
Adobe InDesign for further editing. However, customers do need to be aware that pasting
doesn’t allow a graphic to be updated from an external file.)
When you or a customer preflights a file that contains embedded graphics, the original
graphic name is replaced with (Embedded), and the graphic’s page and type are still listed. If
you want to see the embedded graphic’s filename, cancel out of the Preflight dialog box and
open the Links palette.
To unembed a graphic:
1. In the Links palette, select a graphic marked by the Embedded icon (
).
2. From the Links palette menu, choose Unembed File.
3. You’ll be asked to link to the original file or to a new file. Click Yes to link to the original
file or click No to link to a different file. (If you relink to a different file, make sure it
works properly as a replacement for the formerly embedded graphic.)
