DOH!
wow, yeah i feel silly now, completely forgot the ./, well thanks for pointing that out

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Hello all,
I'm looking to create a custom Metadata panel to show linked graphics from InDesign files. I'm not even sure if this is possible. Can someone please point me in the right direction? I figure if you can see the fonts used in an InDesign file, you should probably be able to pull the links, right?
Thanks for any and all help!

Have you tried trashing the prefs? See Replace Your Preferences
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I would like to use SharePoint to maintain version control on documents that retain linked graphics. Does SharePoint have a means to maintain the linking of image files in these type of publications? Is there a workflow that we can use for
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Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to maintain the linking to the image files after you update the documents with graphics linking to SharePoint library.
Per my knowledge, when you add graphic linking in Word, it causes Word to create an active link between the graphic in your document and the original graphic file. After you upload the document to SharePoint library, if other users view the document in other
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String outputFilePath = "/dev/indesign/docPackage";
boolean copyingFonts = false;
boolean copyingLinkedGraphics = true;
boolean copyingProfiles = false;
boolean updatingGraphics = true;
boolean includingHiddenLayers = false;
boolean ignorePreflightErrors = true;
boolean creatingReport = true;
OptBoolean forceSave = OptArg.makeBoolean( true );
boolean success = doc.packageForPrint( outputFilePath,
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                  copyingProfiles,
                  updatingGraphics,
                  includingHiddenLayers,
                  ignorePreflightErrors,
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                  forceSave );
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LINKS AND IMAGES
(Missing & Embedded Links Only)
Links and Images: 54 Links Found; 0 Modified, 0 Missing
Images: 0 Embedded, 3 use RGB color space
which is the correct number of images.
Thanks,
Mike

Table linking graphics object to a smartform

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I would consider taking a step backwards right here and removing all the currently placed links pdf's. The process of selecting everyone with each tool to verify position is going to be cumbersome.
Assuming you have placed the scoring key on a unique layer, delete the placed document layer. Create a new replacement. Use one of three excellent scripts for placing multiple page pdf or InDesign documents.
Test one to a few pages in the script, to verify Place to Trim, than run it on all pages. IMO a quick fix.
Do you have, are you aware of Scott Zanneli's (?) Place Multiple Page script?
Peter will have quicker access to the link I expect.

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Unwanted colored border around link graphics

Hello,
I would appreciate any advice on a problem I've run in to. On
a site I'm developing, I just went through and linked the pages to
each other using menu graphics that I created in Photoshop. Once I
did that, a colored border appeared around the images and I can't
figure out how to get rid of it. Here's a link so you can see what
I mean:
http://www.elisabethnaughton.com/new_site/index2.html.
I'm guessing that I accidentally did it when I changed the
link color. In the page properties, I designated one color for link
color, visited links, and active links (a dark brown). I designated
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default colors, right?
Anyway, I'd appreciate any help you could provide on how to
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to. On a site I'm
> developing, I just went through and linked the pages to
each other using
> menu
> graphics that I created in Photoshop. Once I did that, a
colored border
> appeared around the images and I can't figure out how to
get rid of it.
> Here's
> a link so you can see what I mean:
>
http://www.elisabethnaughton.com/new_site/index2.html.
>
> I'm guessing that I accidentally did it when I changed
the link color. In
> the
> page properties, I designated one color for link color,
visited links, and
> active links (a dark brown). I designated a lighter
brown for the rollover
> link
> color. I'm not even sure why blue and purple are
appearing as borders,
> other
> than those are the default colors, right?
>
> Anyway, I'd appreciate any help you could provide on how
to solve this
> problem. I've finished all of the other tweaks and this
is the last thing
> I
> have before it goes live! :) Thanks!
>
>

Updating Linked Graphics

I'm working with another designer that keeps updating graphics that I've linked within my InDesign CS3 document. He's working in AI CS3. When he updates a file I cannot find an easier way than opening and closing my entire document to update the linked images. It also works by right clicking on a graphic and then clicking "Edit Original", making no changes in Illustrator, and then closing the image file in Illustrator. I'm thinking there must be an easier way. Please help.

There's a button on the bottom of the panel -- looks like a floppy disk -- that updates modified links. This would only work, of course, if ID has recognized that the link was modified, and since I work alone I'm not sure whether modified links show up right away, or only when you open the document again.
Peter

Determine/Reset Scale of Linked Graphics - Maximize Image Quality

Hi, we're currently using Illustrator CS4 for website comps to quickly mock-up pages for our clients to sign-off (we've explored using Fireworks, but there's just some major things missing that we need in regards to typography, global swatches, etc.).
But we would like to generate some final images from these files as well for the sake of efficiency, as I believe Illustrator is 'supposed' to use the same Save for Web interface as Photoshop. It's just very efficient for us to have our slices designed, setup, optimized and named in this same master document.
But I ran a test comparing the results when generating a final JPEG from Illustrator vs. Photoshop using the same exact settings, and on a file that was 100% of final size. But the Photoshop file was significantly sharper. So I investigated a bit more and found out that the image was scaled just a bit in Illustrator (maybe 110% or less). When I got the image to be as close to 100% as possible in Illustrator, the differences were negligible.
- So what is the quickest/easiest method of resetting an imported image to 100% of the actual size in Illustrator?
I look at the Transform palette (where I would see the scaling in InDesign), but it doesn't tell me anything. I had to look into the Link Information in the links palette to find the scale, but I can't change anything from there.
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THANKS! It is much more efficient for us to save our graphics from Illustrator, but we can't risk losing image quality in the process.

jethrodesign wrote
Yeah, I see that as long as the image has a resolution of 72dpi, it does come in at 100% of size. ..
For what you want to achieve you are right, sort of, but your statement is wrong.
Images are always placed at 100% size as indicated in the info when you double click the links in the Links palette. However you have to understand what size means here. If the image has metadata containing dimensional information then that is the size in Illustrator. For example if the metadata says 5 x 5 inches it will be placed as 100% with that size according to the Illustrator's rulers regardless of what the pixel resolution of the linked image is - it can be 5 or 5000 pixels per inch. If the images don't have metadata describing the dimensions then Illustrator assumes that 72 pixels are 1 inch and will place the image with that size at 100% scale. For example if the image is with 720 x 720 pixels, Illustrator will show it as 10 x 10 inches at 100% scale.
With work for the web you are most interested in the pixel size of the images and objects. Change the units in File > Document Setup to Pixels. But have in mind that these are 72 pixels occupying one inch on the ruler in Illustrator and not the pixel resolution of the linked images. So, the Transform palette showing the selected images or objects with pixel dimensions will matter if you save for the web or export to a raster image file format where you can specify the pixel dimensions of the image. The pixel dimensions in Illustrator will not matter at all if you print the illustrator file in which case the resolution of the linked images will be used - not the pixel space they occupy in Illustrator. But for the Web all that matters is the pixel dimensions in Illustrator. So if you want the ppi (pixels per inch) in Illustrator to match the actual ppi resolutions of the placed images (links), you have to save all images from Photoshop as 72 ppi or remove their metadata. This will ensure that no resampling occurs when you save images at 100% scale from illustrator for the web .
In Photoshop you can use its automatd batch processing features to change quickly the ppi of multiple images.
As for the resampling of the scaled images I believe Illustrator and Photoshop use the same algorithms
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Bad link graphics

I have problem with the graphics on certain links not showing .All i will see is a rectangle with a number in it .The same sites work fine in Chrome and IE. My mozilla at work is fine not troubles .I have a screen shot i can send just tell me where to send it .
Thanks
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Missing icons are usually supplied by a font that is downloaded from the server (@font-face) as you can probably see by little boxes that show the hex code of the characters.
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Need to global find and scale and resize frame on a linked graphic

I have a whole set of files that contain multiple instances of an icon set (placed AI file). All of these are formatted to flow in the text as anchored objects with various object styles. I need to make sure that all instances of the placed AI icons are scaled to 30% and that their frames are fit to content. I have a LOT of files and each one has at least 20 of these icons. I thought the Object find and replace would help, but unfortunately it will not let you search for links, and while I can search for the object styles, there's no option to change scale and the fit content options does not have the "fit frame to content" (and doesn't work anyway from the few tests I ran using "fit content proportionally").
Does anyone have any ideas for how I can fix this globally in nearly 500 documents without having to manually select each icon and change the scale and apply the fit frame to content? I've done a handful of files this way, and it's VERY time consuming.

First make sure this works by duplicating a file and testing.
Make 1 image the size you need it
Grep search for
Find
~a
Change to
~C
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If it does work - then you can open 2 documents and choose "All Documents" in the Search field.
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I stress to please use a duplicate set of files in case things go bad.

Links/Graphics are editable

When exporting All Stories from InDesign to InCopy, you can still edit graphics in InCopy. Isn't that a bug?

In InCopy CS4 I couldn't edit in native application, but can now. Not good.
And I can't reposition the frames because I haven't exported those frames. Still good
But the whole idea (in my setup) is that the user is only allowed to work with the text.
Now they can change the graphics totally, which they couldn't do in CS4
Sorry, my mistake and thank you for deleting..
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