Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 403)

397 USING INDESIGN
Graphics
Last updated 11/16/2011
• Select one or more objects, and then drag the selection to the Mini Bridge panel. A snippet file is created. Rename
the file.
• Drag an item from Structure View to your desktop.
Add snippets to a document
1 Choose File > Place.
2 Select one or more snippet (*.IDMS or *.INDS) files.
3 Click the loaded snippet cursor where you want the upper-left corner of the snippet file to be.
If you placed the insertion point in a text frame, the snippet is placed in the text as an anchored object.
All objects remain selected after you place the snippet. By dragging, you can adjust the position of all objects.
4 If you loaded more than one snippet, scroll and click the loaded snippet cursor to place the others.
You can drag a snippet file from your desktop into the InDesign document and click where you want the upper-left
corner of the snippet to be.
Choose how to place snippets
Rather than place snippet objects according to where you click on a page, you can place them in their original locations.
For example, a text frame that appeared in the middle of a page when it was made part of a snippet can appear in the
same location when you place it as a snippet.
❖ In File Handling preferences, choose Original Location from the Position At menu to preserve objects’ original
locations in snippets. Choose Cursor Location from the Position At menu to place snippets according to where you
click a page.
You can press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) to override the Position setting you selected for handling snippets. For
example, if you selected Position At Cursor Location but you want to place snippet objects in their original locations,
hold down the Alt/Option key when you click the loaded snippet cursor on the page.
Use object libraries
Object libraries help you organize the graphics, text, and pages you use most often. You can also add ruler guides, grids,
drawn shapes, and grouped images to a library. You can create as many libraries as you need—for example, you can
create different object libraries for varied projects or clients.
During a work session, you can open as many libraries as system memory will allow. Object libraries can be shared
across servers, and across platforms, but only one person can have the library open at a time. If an object library
includes text files, make sure that the file’s fonts are available and active on all systems that will access the library.
When you add a page element, such as a graphic, to an object library, InDesign preserves all attributes that were
imported or applied. For example, if you add a graphic from an InDesign document to a library, the library copy will
duplicate the original, including the original’s link information, so that you can update the graphic when the file on
disk changes.
If you delete the object from the InDesign document, the object’s thumbnail will still appear in the Library panel, and
all of the link information will remain intact. If you move or delete the original object, a missing link icon will appear
next to the object’s name in the Links panel the next time you place it in your document from the Library panel.
Within each object library, you can identify and search for an item by title, by the date it was added to the library, or
by keywords. You can also simplify the view of an object library by sorting the library items and displaying their
subsets. For example, you can hide all items except EPS files.