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Using the Links panel - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Using the Links panel
- [Speaker] I'm going to open this file for my exercise files folder by double clicking on it. That's the one that ends with a letter B. When InDesign opens that file, I get this alert dialogue box. What's that about? Well, 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 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 TIFF 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 another image had been modified. That is someone had edited the image since the time that I imported it. So InDesign is asking me, what do I want to do? If I click update modified links, it will update all the modified ones. It won't know what to do about the missing one, but in this…
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