Creative Mentor

Are you in the habit of pulling images from here, there and everywhere?

Do you place images from everywhere and anywhere when working in InDesign, ie a server, hard drive, usb, desktop etc? You aren’t the only one. I’m as guilty as the next guy. For some reason it just seems easier to work like this. Personally, I can be far more creative when not having to worry about file management.

Really though, we should be looking after our images and making sure they’re located in the same folder as our InDesign file. It makes good sense and can be easier to manage our links in the end working this way. If you do place images from all over the place, there’s no need to hunt around for your files, copy them to a new location and then relink them, InDesign can do all that hard work for you.

To do this, select all your links via the link panel, go to the flyout menu within the links panel (top right) and select Utilities > Copy Link(s) To… Now all you need to do is choose the location you want to save them in and press OK. That’s it, all files will now be copied to a new location and relinked automatically within your InDesign file. Life saver!

For more information on this topic via Adobe help click here.

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Posted by Neil Oliver in Links