Link to InDesign

Hi all,
Does InDesign link to Elements as it does to Photoshop? in other words, can you right-click a graphic in InDesign and directly open the original file in Elements as you can with Photoshop?
Thanks.

Hi Ross
I’m not sure it’s possible as Adobe In Design has a CMYK workflow and PSE doesn’t support CMYK. Obviously you could use RGB images and graphics and edit them in PSE and convert in ID but I don’t think you will get the integration you need.
You will possibly find more help on the ID forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign

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dear all
any one tell me how to unlink text to link in indesign cs6...
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Willi Adelberger wrote:
You need to set up 1 paragraph style for each level.
In each paragraph style got to the section "Bullets & Numbering"
Set to numbering, set each paragraph style to the corresponding level. For each level add in the numbering field the placeholder for the same level, in the second and third level set the placeholder and the dot before the actual level for the first and the second level (this only for the third level of course).
It is also a goot idea to create and select a list which can be done in the same dialog. It would work without a list but it is better to use a list to not get numbering problems with ohter numbered lists in the document.
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Peter
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Hi,
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I'd be glad to give it a shot, even though I'm a beginner (and I am afraid I am out of my depth), but i'm missing something obvious because I could download and install the script, but if I try to open it to edit it, I just get gobbeldygook. Any chance you could paste the script here?
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Can links from InDesign or InCopy Articles use non-file: URLs?

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Return PDF page number from the name of the link in InDesign CS4 JS

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[Req.] script for updating links in Indesign using spotlight

hi,
i've got a challange, can somebody please help me?
I'm a graphic designer from holland and I work with lots of Indesign documents
whose links are missing because they are moved, so they are somewhere on our server.
I have several scripts to relink missing links but they are slow,
because they search every directory and every subdirectory. This takes a while.
The search engine from apple, spotlight, is much much faster.
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Can somebody give me a help please?
Kind regards, Eric
ps. I still work in CS4

try this,
could just test it with ID CS3 and Mac OS 10.4.11
--startpoint here is a selected graphicframe (which of course should inlude the missing link)
set myFolder to choose folder with prompt "Where to search for the missing link?" --select a mounted volume, folder ...
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Update of links in Indesign CS6 when changing asset via drive

Hi,
i am having an issue regarding the integration of Adobe AEM with InDesign CS6 via Drive:
I have a indd document that has a link to an image, both are stored on a Adobe AEM 5.6.1 server and accessed via Adobe Drive 5.0.2.
Now i tested the use case that the asset is changed and replaced on the AEM instance. I expect that InDesign tells me that the link has updated when I am opening the file the next time and the new asset is shown.
Unfortunatly this expectation occurs very unreliably and I managed to update the image only a few times.
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Best regards,
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While writing I made a mistake... It is true I could become aware of the Scorpio incompatibility.
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We don't know where we are missing a step.
Would anyone be able to look over the files and see what we're missing?
Once we want to tie the xml to the indesign, what is the procedure?
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