Updating, restoring, and replacing links – Adobe InDesign CS3 User Manual
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Click the Relink button
or select Relink in the Links panel menu.
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Choose to link the file to the original file or to a folder InDesign creates from the embedded data stored in the
document.
Updating, restoring, and replacing links
Use the Links panel to check the status of any link, or to replace files with updated or alternate files.
When you update or reestablish (relink) a link to a file, any transformations performed in InDesign are preserved (if
you choose Relink Preserved Dimensions in the File Handling preferences). For example, if you import a square
graphic and rotate it 30˚, and then you relink it to an unrotated graphic, InDesign rotates it 30˚ to match the layout
of the graphic it’s replacing.
Note: Placed EPS files may contain OPI links, which will appear in the Links panel. Don’t relink OPI links to files other
than those originally intended by the creator of the EPS file; doing so can cause problems with font downloading and
color separations.
Choose how relinked graphics are scaled
When you relink to replace one graphic with a different source file, you can keep the image dimensions of the file
that’s being replaced or you can display the incoming file in its actual dimensions.
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Choose InDesign > Preferences > File Handling (Mac OS) or Edit > Preferences > File Handling (Windows).
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Choose Relink Preserves Dimensions if you want images to appear at the same size as the images they’re replacing;
deselect this option to have relinked images appear at their actual size.
Update modified links
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In the Links panel, do one of the following:
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To update specific links, select one or more links marked with the modified-link icon
.
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To update all modified links, deselect all links by clicking the bottom of the Links panel.
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Click the Update Link button
, or choose Update Link from the Links panel menu.
Replace a link with a different source file
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Select any link in the Links panel, and click the Relink button
or choose Relink from the Links panel menu.
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In the dialog box that appears, select Relink All Instances if more than one copy of the same file is in the document
and you want to relink each copy to the same new source file.
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Choose Show Import Options if you’ve selected only one link and you want to control how the new source file is
imported.
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Locate and double-click the new source file.
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Choose import options if you clicked the Show Import options check box.(See “Import options for graphics” on
Note: If all of the missing files are in the same folder, you can restore all of them at once. First select all the missing links
(or select nothing) and restore one link. All of the remaining missing links are restored automatically.
Restore a single missing link
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To restore a missing link, select any link marked with the missing link icon
in the Links panel, and click the
Relink button
.