Jul. 3, 2008
There’s a direct way to edit your graphics in their native applications right from the page
If you’re in the habit of using edit original directly from the links panel or via the contextual menu, you may be interested to know you can do the exact same thing from directly within your page. The trick is to select the graphic with the “Selection Tool”, then hold “Option” on Mac or “Alt” on PC, and then double click the graphic. InDesign then opens the graphic inside its native application.
If you try to select multiple images and try this same trick, it won’t work. Unfortunately it only works for one graphic at a time. Hopefully one day Adobe will add this functionality to InDesign…
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2 Responses to “Edit Original the quick way”
Neil,
Very simple tip…
But a huge time saver!
Thanks once again.
Steve
By Steve Bretschneider on Jul 4, 2008
This is a great way to do it in CS3 however it doesn’t work in CS4 using Leopard.
By Paul Tomzak on Oct 14, 2009