From the course: InDesign Secrets
368 PB, DT, and OV in the Links panel - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
368 PB, DT, and OV in the Links panel
- [Instructor] When you're working on a document in InDesign, you want to pay attention to clues that it gives you about what's working and what's not working in your file. Just like an airplane pilot keeps an eye on a number of different gauges and warning lights, you want to keep your eyes moving around the various panels and displays in InDesign. Now we've talked about the importance of the Preflight panel for example, but another panel that you really want to watch is the Links panel over here in the dock. The Links panel gives you feedback about the files that you've linked to on disk, usually graphics. So there's a lot of information in here, and usually the column that you want to pay attention to is this one in the middle, the one that says whether graphics are modified or missing. In this case, they're all set to OK. That's why it's blank. But let's look at this third column. That tells you where your images are. So, for example, this one means that this image is on page one. If I click on it, InDesign jumps to the page and selects the image inside the frame. So, cool, but what about these other ones? PB, OV, DT, what the heck are those? Well, PB indicates that this is a picture of a peanut butter sandwich, of course. No, no, I'm just kidding. Let's try clicking it. I'll click on PB, and InDesign jumps to a different page and selects the image. Unfortunately, in this case, I can't see the image because it's hiding behind the Preflight panel. So let me go ahead and close that. There we go, it's out on the pasteboard. That's what PB means, pasteboard. Now I want to move this onto the page itself, but the image is selected inside the frame. So I'll double-click on it to select the frame itself, and now I can drag both onto the page. When I do that, PB is replaced with the number two, page two. Okay, what's OV? Well, I'll try clicking on that, and InDesign jumps to a different page and it selects a text frame. And it gives us this warning. The image is anchored or inline inside of a text story, but the frame wasn't big enough, so it became overset. Overset is OV. Cool, I can fix that. I'll click OK, and I'll zoom out to fit the whole page in the window by pressing Command or Control + 0. And now I'll just make this fill the page. There we go, there's the image. And finally, this image up here is DT. That's not detox or detour. It's something else. Once again, we can find out by clicking on the link. Once again, it's inside of a text frame, so it must be an inline or anchored image. But in this case, it's not overset but rather deleted. Someone had turned on Track Changes for this story, and then they deleted the text that had the anchored object in it. Here, I'll show you. I'll click OK, and now go up to the Edit menu, and choose Edit in Story Editor. If I scroll up a little bit, you'll see a bunch of text that has been deleted. And right in the middle, there's a little icon that has an anchor in it. That's the anchored or inline image. Okay, to get it back, I'm going to drag over that text with the text cursor. Then I'll go to the Window menu, choose Editorial, and then choose Track Changes. Here, inside the Track Changes dialog box, I'm going to click the Reject Change button. That's the one that looks like an X. Now the image should come back. Let's take a look. I'll close the panel and also the Story Editor. And now over here inside the Links panel, you can see that DT has been replaced with a page number. I'll click on it, and there it is. That was the picture I wanted. So that's the secret. Keep your eyes on the panels, and look for clues that will help you fix your documents.
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Contents
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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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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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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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