From the course: InDesign Secrets
140 Keeping the same scale size when updating or relinking to images - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
140 Keeping the same scale size when updating or relinking to images
I have an image here that I want to edit in Photoshop. I just want to crop it down a bit. So, I could go up to the Edit menu and choose Edit Original. But this is a JPG image and I happen to know that it's going to open up in the wrong program. It'll open up on the Mac here in preview instead of Photoshop, and I want to force it to open up in Photoshop. To do that, I'll go to the Edit With pop-up menu, and choose Photoshop. That sends a message to Photoshop to open up this file. Great. Now, I want to crop it down. So I'm going to choose the Cropping tool, and I'll simply crop out the area that I don't want. And I'll hit Enter, and save it. It's Cmd+S or Ctrl+S on Windows. Then I can close it and go back to InDesign. Well, what happened here? InDesign changed it, it scaled it. Because I used that Edit Width feature, InDesign was watching for a change, and as soon as it noticed it changed, it re-imported it and it scaled it. Here, let me undo, and you can see before, and then redo, Cmd+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo, and you can see that it scaled it up. Technically, it scaled it to fit the same size as the original image. In many, probably most cases, that's just what I'd want, but in this case it's not. I don't want InDesign to scale it, I wanted to keep it the same size. So in this case, I wish that InDesign weren't trying to be so smart and scaled it for me. The good news is, that InDesign let's you choose, should it scale it or should it not. And that choice lives inside the Preferences dialog box. To open the Preferences dialog box on Windows, I would go to the Edit menu. But here on the Mac, I'm going to go to the InDesign menu and choose Preferences. I'll just choose General and click down here on File Handling. Inside the File Handling pane of the Preferences dialog box, lives at check box called preserve image dimensions when relinking, and that mysterious little thing is the key to telling in design whether you want it to scale those images or not. Right now it's turned on, so it's saying yes, please scale whenever you relink or update. If I turn that off, it will not scale it. So let's go ahead and click OK. And I'm going to undo this, and then I'm going to try it again. I'll go back to my Links panel and I'll say Update This Link by double clicking on this little Alert button. You'll see that it imported the new version. It updated it, but it did not scale it. It did however move the file over so that the upper left corner of image stayed in the upper left corner of this frame, and that's just the way it is, but I can easily crop this down and move it into position. But the point is it did not scale it, and that's important. Now, if I had Auto-fit turned on here in the Control panel, then it would try and scale it up again. But as long as that's turned off and that preference is turned off, InDesign will leave the scaling alone. So, this looks good, but now I'm going to go back to Preferences. I'll go there with a keyboard shortcut: Cmd+K or Ctrl+K on Windows, then I'll click on File Handling. And I'm going to turn this check box on, because like I said, most of the time, I do want InDesign to scale it just like it normally does. So, I'll leave that turned on. But next time I don't want it to scale, I'll know just where to go.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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