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Working with the Links panel

Working with the Links panel - InDesign Tutorial

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Working with the Links panel

- In this movie, I'll introduce you to the links panel which allows you to manage your placed images. I'm gonna start by zooming in a little bit here so that you can see in the top left corner of each and every one of these Saturn images, we have a tiny blue chain icon, and that indicates that that image is linked to a file on disk. So, here's the idea. When you place text, InDesign embeds that text into the document by which I mean that it places each and every character into the InDesign file. The reason being that text is relatively small and InDesign can modify the text on the fly. By comparison graphics especially photographic images are very large. And so to keep things smooth and efficient, InDesign links to the file on disk so it doesn't have to place the entire file inside the document. And you can manage those links from the links panel. To get to the links panel, go up to the Workflow menu in the upper right corner of the window and choose the very first option Advanced…

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