I have to update a brochure for one of my clients, so I copy all of the materials back onto my hard drive from DVD storage. When I open the InDesign layout, all of the images have lost their links and have a question mark next to their names in the Links palette (Window > Links). With the number of images that need to be relinked, this could take some time. Is there a way to relink all these images at once?
Yes! Press the Command key (Control on a PC) then click and drag down the listing in the Links palette to select all images. Press the Relink button, the first button on the left at the bottom of the palette. In the dialog window that opens, press the Browse button and navigate to the folder that contains the images. The first image will be highlighted if it is located in this folder. Click Open and the first image as well as all other pictures in the Links palette will be Relinked. If a particular image is not in this folder, the process will pause and another Relink window will open to browse other folders for the culprit. Click open when it’s found and the relinking process will continue down the Links palette list to the end.Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
