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004 Customizing the Links panel

004 Customizing the Links panel - InDesign Tutorial

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004 Customizing the Links panel

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Anne-Marie Concepcion> There are lots of places in InDesign where there are hidden features and most users never discover them, even though they've been added versions ago. For me, one of those kinds of features is the ability to really customize the Links panel. They've completely rebuilt the Links panel and how it works in CS4. If you click it, you'll see that it automatically opens up this part at the bottom called Link Info. When you select an image or placed elements in your InDesign file, the link to that image is highlighted in the top part of the links panel and then underneath that you see a lot more information called Link Info, all about that link. So if you scroll down here you can see, for example, what is the actual resolution and what is the effective resolution, after you scaled it. Apparently this thing was scaled much smaller so now it's 1181. It's a pretty big file, and so on. You know, the problem with this to me is that I hate this part down here and I'll almost…

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