Datasheet

You can customize the Links panel
to show the information you want
by choosing Panel Options from the
panel menu. Here, a larger image
thumbnail has been made visible in
the File Info section, and the scale
and resolution columns added to
the list at the top.
View > Display Performance > High
Quality Display. is may slow down
screen redraw on your computer.
You can also increase the display
quality of an individual graphic:
 Right-click (or Control-click with
a one-button mouse in Mac OS)
a graphic frame, and then choose
Display Performance > High
Quality Display.
 If you are importing an  le,
select Show Import Options in the
Place dialog box, and then choose
Rasterize e PostScript to get a
better quality preview.
Modifying placed graphics
To modify a placed graphic in its
original application, hold down
Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows),
and double-click the graphics frame.
(You can also select a graphic or its
frame, and then choose Edit > Edit
Original or click the Edit Original
button in the Links panel.)
e Edit Original feature relies on
the Mac or Windows operating
system to know what application to
launch. You can also choose an
alternate application from the Edit
With menu (in the Edit menu or
Links panel menu).
Aer you make and save your
changes, the placed artwork is
automatically updated in InDesign.
You can use the Links panel to
identify, select, monitor, and relink
imported graphics les. e Links
panel displays a list of all imported
graphics and a variety of link ari-
butes, including warning icons for
graphics that have been modied
or are missing.
Here are some other features in
the Links panel that you should
be aware of:
 You can reorder the les in the
panel by clicking the name or
icon at the top of the column. You
can also change the order of the
columns or change their width by
dragging the column headers.
 Click the blue page number next
to the lename to jump to that
page and highlight the image.
 Click the triangle in the lower le
corner of the panel to view the
Link Info section, which oers
more information about the
selected graphic. For example, it
can show bitmap image resolu-
tion, color space, current image
scaling, and layer position.
 You can add or remove columns
of information in the panel, or
what information is displayed
in Link Info, by choosing Panel
Options from the panel menu.
e Links panel also lets you
relink to a new le on disk,
update modied links, reveal the
le in Finder (Mac OS) or Explorer
(Windows), copy the les to a
new folder on disk (similar to
Package, but for only selected
les), and embed the placed le
inside the InDesign document.
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