InDesign behavior for image links on virtual drive?

When working with local InDesign files and local image links, I get warnings about missing links or modified links in case the images have been removed or updated since being placed in InDesign. When working with InDesign through Adobe Drive, the behavior seems to be radically different.
For instance, I place an image from the virtual Z drive and save the InDesign file on the virtual Z drive.
At a later time, the asset is removed from the DAM system (or moved so it is now mapped to a different local path).
When I reconnect through Adobe Drive and open the InDesign file, I will not get a missing link error, instead the link will appear without a missing link icon but also without a path.
Certain workarounds that we have implemented (e.g. remapping the path on the fly in case the asset has been moved) work when the originally placed image was a local file (i.e. occurs in the XMP with a C: path) but not when the originally placed image was retrieved through Drive (i.e. occurs in the XMP with a Z: path). Of course we would like to obtain consistent InDesign behavior regardless of whether the user connects through Drive or not.
Has this different behavior for InDesign links been documented? Can I get any additional information about it?
Thanks in advance.

In the mean time I have done some more research. Basically the issue I am struggling with can be illustrated with the following simple scenario:
1. Create a new InDesign file and place an image located at C:\Temp\link.jpg in it. Save the file to the C drive.
2. Connect to your DAM through Drive which is mapped to the Z drive.
3. Create a new InDesign file and place an image located at Z:\Temp\link.jpg in it. Save the file to the C drive.
4. Copy both InDesign files without the links to a clean machine (which has no connection with Drive and no images in the C:\Temp folder).
5. Open the first InDesign file. You will get a missing link error as expected.
6. Open the second InDesign file. You do NOT get a missing link error.
7. Create a new image on the clean machine and save it as "link.jpg" in the same folder as the copied InDesign files.
8. Open the first InDesign file. You will get a warning about a modified link with the option to update the link.
9. Open the second InDesign file. You do NOT get a warning about a modified link. You cannot update the link.
So the problem is in steps 6 and 9.
Why don't I get a missing link error in step 6?
What will happen when I try to print the InDesign document at this stage (or try to export to high resolution pdf)?
At this point the high resolution image link is not available so I assume the preview will be used.
However the user is not at all aware of this. This could turn out to be a major issue for our adoption of Adobe Drive.
Thanks in advance for any additional insight you can provide.

Similar Messages

Need for antivirus on a Virtual Drive?

I have just purchased ESET cyber security pro for mac.
I run this on a macbook pro with Parallels Desktop installed. using Parallels, I have Win7 running on a virtual drive.
I have with Win7 been using ESET smart security 7. (Used ESET windows software for many years)
Since installing the ESET cyber security pro for mac, a menu link for this has appeared on the Win7 start menu list.
Is this protecting both?
Do I need both versions of ESET or will the ESET cyber security pro for mac also cover the Win7 VM?
Thanks

Harrydevine wrote:
Do I need both versions of ESET or will the ESET cyber security pro for mac also cover the Win7 VM?
Anti-virus software on your Mac will not protect a Windows system running in a virtual machine on that same Mac. You must install anti-virus software on the Windows system, as with any Windows system, unless you are able to keep this system completely isolated or restore to a snapshot containing a known good state every time you use it.
As for the need for ESET on the Mac, I don't generally recommend commercial anti-virus software on the Mac. For some information on how to properly protect yourself against malware on the Mac, see my Mac Malware Guide.
(Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com, in the form of buttons allowing for donations. Donations are not required to use my site or software.)

Pathing for Image Links - CS5.5

Hi, we currently have out InDesign file in a folder which the name can change but within that folder we have a subfolder called images under we always have our images so our image links which get populated from XML data always point to file://images/imagename.eps so normally no problem finding links. What we are looking to do is have other subfolders with different InDesign files at same level as images subfolder but be able to utilize same images. Is there a way to point to these somehow without knowing the entire path, just being able to go back to the images subfolder which would be be up one level from actual InDesign file. I know on websites, we are able to do some ../ type of stuff which would handle that but never tried to do in InDesign. Thanks, Joe

Hi MissJB,
Please try downloading Dreamweaver CS5.5 from the Direct Download Links available at : http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs5-5-direct-download-links.html
But make sure you follow the important instructions on the page before initiating the download.

Can a Person put META for Images / Links ?

Since we can put META for WholePage,.
Is it possible to put META for a LINK ? Or since we have a
IMAGE? how can it make it User friendly for Search Engine Bots?
Any Alternative or such thing?

Out of curiosity, have you read any of the links that have
been provided to
you when you asked questions about getting your website into
Google?
All you would need to do is read a few basic SEO articles and
you'd have all
the answers to your questions at your fingertips :)
Nadia
Adobe® Community Expert : Dreamweaver
Tutorials |SEO |Templates
http://www.DreamweaverResources.com
http://www.perrelink.com.au
CSS Tutorials for Dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/css.html
"owaisrauf" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ekukpj$1pf$[email protected]..
> Since we can put META for WholePage,.
> Is it possible to put META for a LINK ? Or since we have
a IMAGE? how can
> it make it User friendly for Search Engine Bots?
> Any Alternative or such thing?
>
>

CS3 Server Behavior for Update Links

Hi,
Here's something I noticed. The following JS code works on the desktop but won't work correctly on the server:
for(myLinkCounter = 0; myLinkCounter < myDoc.links.length; myLinkCounter ++) {
var myLink = myDoc.links.item(myLinkCounter);
myLink.update();
Conversely:
for(myLinkCounter = 0; myLinkCounter < myDoc.links.length; myLinkCounter ++) {
var myLink = myDoc.links.firstItem();
myLink.update();
works on the server but not the desktop. And, come to think of it, I think that was CS2 behavior. hmmm...
-Nissan

The script is doing exactly what you are telling it to do. By having the user leave the password blank, it is updating the database with the "blank" passsword.
In the form field containting the password field, put the password in as the default value from the database. You can do that by clicking on the form field and then selecting on dynamic. From there select the field that contains your password. From there make sure to mark the form field as a password so the password is hidden. You may also want to make a verify password form field as well with the same default value. That way when the user changes the password they have to change it on both.
If you have dreamweaver cs3 or cs4 or cs5 you can use the spry form validation and have it compare two form fields to make sure they match. If they dont match it wont let the user complete the form.
If you have an older version of dreamweaver you can download and use the yaromat form validation extension. It is a free extension.

CS4 Dreamweaver not replacing paths for images/links

New Windows 7 machine with CS4 Web Premium. When using Dreamweaver, and, for example, replacing an image or a link in the design window using the properties... I click on the image, click the browse button, select the new file (I've tried hitting OK and double clicking -both of which should, or at least used to work in CS3). However, when returning to the main screen, the path to the image or link has not been replaced.
What is interesting is that IF I click on more than one image - i.e. say I am replacing one.jpg. So, I open the browse button, and select two.jpg, but then click on three.jpg (which is the file I want) and then hit OK (if I double click three.jpg after selecting another image first), it works fine.
Any ideas how to fix this irritating bug?? Thanks...

Hallelujah!! I'm not alone!! I wonder if Adobe does actually browse these forums. I can't believe something like this isn't a really easy fix for them. I can't tell you the amount of times I thought I'd updated a picture and then looked completely incompetant to a client because it didn't take. Very sloppy on both mine AND Adobe's part.

Viewing dimensions for images stored on NAS drive

Hi
I have a problem with seeing dimensions for any images stored on my NAS drive. I can see the info for the folder contents under each, so that's clearly working, just not the image dimensions. 'Get Info' doesn't have this information either. Any ideas?

Image dimensions would be stored in what is called metadata. If the NAS file system doesn't support maintaining the metadata, then there is no way for your Mac to see it. That data is stored in the Resource fork of the file, the image being stored in the data fork.
If the Mac tries to write to a file system that does not support the resource forks, it will also copy over a ._ file of the same name, if it can. That file contains the metadata. However, I'm not certain if the OS can also read those files when browsing the file system.

Batch Retrieve Image links

Hi,
I've found the File -> Package -> Report quite helpful for generating a detailed report for image links. However I am dealing with a few hundred files so the act of going into each one and generating a report individually is quite time consuming. I have been able to reduce the overall time by a) customing the hotkey for accessing the Package and b) memorizing the keystrokes required to complete each report however I can't help but think there has to be an easier way.
My assumption is that there would be a way to script such a simple action so that I could simply hit play and have the file generated, am I correct?
If not my second assumption is it would be easier to troll through the XML files and parse the links that way?
Thank-you very much in advance for any and all support in this matter.
Cheers,
Kud

OK, try this out:
var inFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Choose the folder that contains the InDesign documents.");
if(inFolder === null){
          exit();
var outFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Choose the folder to save the reports in.");
if(outFolder === null){
          exit();
var files = inFolder.getFiles("*.indd"),
          fileStrings = [],
          doc, i, l, link, j, k, reportFile;
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel=UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;
for(i = 0, l = files.length; i < l; i++) {
          doc = app.open(files[i], false);
          reportFile = File(outFolder + "/" + doc.name.replace(/\.indd$/,"") + ".csv");
          fileStrings = ["\"link\",\"status\",\"complete name\""];
          for(j = 0, k = doc.links.length; j < k; j++) {
                    link = doc.links[j];
                    fileStrings[fileStrings.length] = "\"" + link.name + "\",\"" + link.status.toString() + "\",\"" + link.filePath + "\"";
          doc.close(SaveOptions.NO);
          if(fileStrings.length > 1 && reportFile.open('w')){
                    reportFile.write(fileStrings.join("\r"));
                    reportFile.close();
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel=UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;
So, this will ask you to choose the folder that contains the InDesign documents you want link reports on. It won't descend into subfolders. If your files aren't all in one folder, you can drag aliases/shortcuts into one folder and it should follow them. It will then ask you for a folder to save the report files in. It's set up to make one .csv for each document, and it doesn't produce them for documents that have no links.
Let me know if the file format I've chosen doesn't work for you, or if you'd rather have all of it in one document, or more fields, or whatever.
Tested on CS5 on the Mac.

ITunes Store image links do not display - previews & purchases do not work

PLEASE HELP!
Below are the images of what I am seeing.
And I promise you I have really made an effort to research and try to resolve this without success. I have even run iTunes on a completely seperate computer and a different login (both OS user login and iTunes store login) and have the exact same issue.
I have reinstalled with a reboot (several attempts), performed a winsock reset, followed procedures in TS4123 for LSP conflicts, I have cleared my cache, I have checked for Firewall issues, I have restarted my cable modem, I have copied iTunes store links to a browser to check that images are displaying - nothing resolves this problem.
Email support has only recommended what is already posted in communities forum and on the knowledge base.
I have seen that in past there have been posts related to this specific issue but were not answered (for what I found). It seems that unless you are having a complete white screen when accessing the iTunes store that there is no solution for a problem like mine??
Also only "Ping" will display all images for image links.
Thanks in advance for any help / feedback!
and
* .... I should reiterate that I can not make any purchases, save to wish list, watch or listen to previews.

Update:
Still trying to resolve this problem (been working on it for the better part of 2 days now)
KB - TS1379 ( http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1379 ) Also does not resolve this issue...
Still need help please.

Border Issue w/ Image Links

I have been trying to get the borders that I put around
images that are linked to show up black instead of the typical
blue/purple combo. I've used CSS to get this effect, and it works
great in Firefox, Safari, and Netscape, but won't work at all in
Internet Explorer. How can I get it to work in IE? The page in
question is:
http://www.dehoneytravel.com/travel_tools/furtherpreparation.htm
My CSS code for the links is here:
http://www.dehoneytravel.com/css/common.css
The link style is the ".picslink" at the bottom of the code.
My next question is how to have both an image link and a text
link? An example would be on the main page, www.dehoneytravel.com.
Under the featured tours heading, I've got an image link and then
at the end of the paragraph, a text link.
Thanks!

did you try searching the forum for image link color?
image
link color

TableStyle Pro not retaining worksheet and cell range information for Excel Links

I just started working with TableStyles Pro and CellStyles Pro. I am already running into some limitations that I think there are solutions for. The main thing I have encountered is I have a price list file set up in InDesign CS2 for Windows linked to a single Excel file, but different worksheets and named ranges within those worksheets. I have looked into the settings, etc. required to update the Excel data without losing your formatting, but when I update the link it uses some sort of default settings and links to the first worksheet and ignores the worksheet and named range information I had entered when I initially linked the file. I noticed that the links palette only shows the name of the Excel file and doesn't indicate specific sheets or ranges.
I would like to not have to work around this by separating my Excel file because it would create so much more work when updating the pricing information and having to copy and paste formulas between files, open them all and save them all. I also would like to avoid working around by relinking instead of updating the links as I would have to apply some formatting that is not covered by the TableStyle and CellStyle plugins.
I hope this issue is just a matter of some sort of setting and I will not be stuck with a work around solution. Please help.
I did stumble across a posting about another plugin that supports more complex formatting tasks, but I am not sure even this will solve my reformatting issue as it sort of changes from table to table in some cases.

I may be changing the subject, but I wonder if it is possible to link the cell in InDesign CS (WindowsXPpro) table to a cell in Excel.
Scenario: I have 100's of tables in our catalog which contain part#, description, and price columns. I want to be able to tell the price cell to go to Excel and bring back the correct price. I can easily do this in Excel and then simply place the whole spreadsheet into InDesign, but I would need to recreate all my tables in Excel. It would be much faster to simply create links from cells in InDesign to cells in Excel.

Is Indesign suitable for creating a directory with anchored images?

I have an ancient eight-page Quark document (originally created in 3.5, now in 8.5) that contains over 200 3cm adverts created in other applications called in as images anchored into text. This means that each month I can add or remove entries and the rest flows round in linked text boxes.
It also means that Quark quits every few minutes and the job is now virtually impossible to complete.
I am considering recreating the whole thing in Indesign but before I do, I would like to hear from anyone doing the same type of thing:
How stable is Indesign for this type of job? How does it cope with over 200 images (pdfs, eps, tiffs, jpgs whatever) anchored as text? Is there a format for images that Indesign prefers to handle? I imagine it's pretty intensive to process as each advert also contains an image or two and fonts of its own. I'd rather keep the adverts as vector files as the text is so tiny – even though I know that resaving the lot in Photoshop would probably help no end (removing font problems, embedded images etc etc).
Any suggestions, feedback etc gratefully received.
thanks

I'd rather keep the adverts as vector files as the text is so tiny – even though I know that resaving the lot in Photoshop would probably help no end (removing font problems, embedded images etc etc).
It shouldn't be a problem unless the Quark issue comes over to ID (something like a corrupt font). As long as you link and don't embed or paste the vector art; images, fonts, or complex drawing won't add to the screen redraw overhead because the preview is a JPEG proxy.

(InDesign CS5)I have created hundreds of InDesign documents incorporating images stored on an external USB connected drive. I did a manual back-up to another drive at regular intervals but far from ideal. I now have a network drive which is properly backe

(InDesign CS5) I have created hundreds of InDesign documents incorporating images stored on an external USB connected drive. I did a manual back-up to another drive at regular intervals but far from ideal.
I now have a network drive which is properly backed-up. I have copied all of the images and folder structure from the USB connected drive to this new drive.
My question is how I get all of the links in my indd files to point to the new drive. I am aware how to do it one file at a time, but is there a way of doing the same thing over many files/folders at a time?

It depends on how you organize your work. If you have one folder for images for a document, relinking one image should alert you that other missing images are in the same folder, but this assumes that images are missing. If the links window sees a clear path to the original location of the images, they aren't missing, so that won't work.
Another thing to try is to select all of the images in the links window and go to the fly-out menu and select Relink To Folder (navigate to the new folder, and you don't even have to select any images by name).
If you store your images in many different folders for the same document, you might want to either package the document to copy all of the images into one folder (you can specify to only copy images if you like) or use the fly-out in the links window (Utilities>Copy Links To…) and select or create a new images folder.

OK to use fdisk/100% "SOLARIS System" partition for RAID6 Virtual Drive?

Solaris newb, here - I am configuring an x4270 with 16 135 GB drives. Basic approach is
D0, D1: RAID 1 (Boot volume, Solaris, Oracle Software)
D2-D13: RAID 6 (Oracle dB files)
D14, D15: global spares
After configuring the RAID's w/WebBIOS Utility, I am now trying to format/partition the RAID 6 Virtual Drive, which shows up as 1.327 TB 'Optimal' in the MegaRAID Storage Manager. After hunting around the ether for advice on how to do this, I came across http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1459/disksxadd-50.html#disksxadd-54639
"Creating a Solaris fdisk Partition That Spans the Entire Drive"
which is painfully simple: after 'format', just do an 'fdisk' and accept the default 100% "SOLARIS System" partition. After doing this, partition>print and prtvtoc show this:
partition> print
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 59125 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wu 0 - 59124 1.33TB (59125/0/0) 2849529375
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
8 boot wu 0 - 0 23.53MB (1/0/0) 48195
9 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
# prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s2
* /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s2 partition map
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 189 sectors/track
* 255 tracks/cylinder
* 48195 sectors/cylinder
* 59127 cylinders
* 59125 accessible cylinders
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 48195 2849481180 2849529374
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
2 5 01 0 2849529375 2849529374
8 1 01 0 48195 48194
My question: is there anything inherently wrong with this default partitioning? Database is for OLTP & fairly small (<200 GB), with about 140 GB being LOB images.
Thanks,
Barry

First off, RAID-5 or RAID-6 is fine for database performance unless you have some REALLY strict and REALLY astronomical performance requirements. Requirements that someone with lots of money is willing to pay to meet.
You're running a single small x86 box with only onboard storage.
So no, you're not operating in that type of environment.
Here's what I'd do, based upon a whole lot of experience with Solaris 10 and not so much with Solaris 11, and also assuming this box is going to be around for a good long time as an Oracle DB server:
1. Don't use SVM for your boot drives. Use the onboard RAID controller to make TWO 2-disk RAID-1 mirrors. Use these for TWO ZFS root pools. Why two? Because if you use live upgrade to patch the OS, you want to create a new boot environment in a separate ZFS pool. If you use live upgrade to create new boot environments in the same ZFS pool, you wind up with a ZFS clone/snapshot hell. If you use two separate root pools, each new boot environment is a pool-to-pool actual copy that gets patched, so there are no ZFS snapshot/clone dependencies between the boot environments. Those snapshot/clone dependencies can cause a lot of problems with full disk drives if you wind up with a string of boot environments, and at best they can be a complete pain in the buttocks to clean up - assuming live upgrade doesn't mess up the clones/snapshots so badly you CAN'T clean them up (yeah, it has been known to do just that...). You do your first install with a ZFS rpool, then create rpool2 on the other mirror. Each time you do an lucreate to create a new boot environment from the current boot environment, create the new boot environment in the rpool that ISN'T the one the current boot environment is located in. That makes for ZERO ZFS dependencies between boot environments (at least in Solaris 10. Although with separate rpools, I don't see how that could change....), and there's no software written that can screw up a dependency that doesn't exist.
2. Create a third RAID-1 mirror either with the onboard RAID controller or ZFS, Use those two drives for home directories. You do NOT want home directories located on an rpool within a live upgrade boot environment. If you put home directories inside a live upgrade boot environment, 1) that can be a LOT of data that gets copied, 2) if you have to revert back to an old boot environment because the latest OS patches broke something, you'll also revert every user's home directory back.
3. That leaves you 10 drives for a RAID-6 array for DB data. 8 data and two parity. Perfect. I'd use the onboard RAID controller if it supports RAID-6, otherwise I'd use ZFS and not bother with SVM.
This also assumes you'd be pretty prompt in replacing any failed disks as there are no global spares. If there would be significant time before you'd even know you had a failed disk (days or weeks), let alone getting them replaced, I'd rethink that. In that case, if there were space I'd probably put home directories in the 10-disk RAID-6 drive, using ZFS to limit how big that ZFS file system could get. Then use the two drives freed up for spares.
But if you're prompt in recognizing failed drives and getting them replaced, you probably don't need to do that. Although you might want to just for peace of mind if you do have the space in the RAID-6 pool.
And yes, using four total disks for two OS root ZFS pools seems like overkill. But you'll be happy when four years from now you've had no problems doing OS upgrades when necessary, with minimal downtime needed for patching, and with the ability to revert to a previous OS patch level with a simple "luactivate BENAME; init 6" command.
If you have two or more of these machines set up like that in a cluster with Oracle data on shared storage you could then do OS patching and upgrades with zero database downtime. Use lucreate to make new boot envs on each cluster member, update each new boot env, then do rolling "luactivate BENAME; init 6" reboots on each server, moving on to the next server after the previous one is back and fully operational after its reboot to a new boot environment.

Anchor link only for image in table header for sorting

Hi,
I need to implement sorting functionality for datatable.
for sorting header of the table column will have image along with header text.
for this i am using <h:commandLink> and <h:graphicImage>.
But i am getting behaviour as anchor link for both text and image.
deserved behavior for this is only ofr Image.
If any one implemented the same ..please help me
Regards

Try:
Sub ClearKeepWNext()
Dim Tbl As Table, i As Long
For Each Tbl In ActiveDocument.Tables
With Tbl
    .Range.ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = False
    For i = 1 To .Rows.Count
      With .Rows(i)
        If .HeadingFormat = True Then
          .Range.ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = True
        Else
          Exit For
        End If
      End With
    Next
End With
Next
End Sub
If the tables only have a single heading row, you could instead use:
Sub ClearKeepWNext()
Dim Tbl As Table
For Each Tbl In ActiveDocument.Tables
With Tbl
    .Range.ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = False
    With .Rows(1)
      If .HeadingFormat = True Then
        .AllowBreakAcrossPages = False
      End If
    End With
End With
Next
End Sub
Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

InDesign behavior for image links on virtual drive?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for