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368 PB, DT, and OV in the Links panel - InDesign Tutorial

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368 PB, DT, and OV in the Links panel

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- [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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