In this InDesign how-to video, Mike Rankin explains what shared destinations are and why you’ll want to use them sparingly. He explains how to strip them out (since they’re applied by default) and how to avoid any issues that might crop up with these links.
Link to Keith Gilbert’s Remove Shared Destinations script: https://gilbertconsulting.com/scripts.
This video is an excerpt from Mike’s “Production Disasters and How to Fix (or Prevent) Them” session at CreativePro Week 2023.
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This article was last modified on August 15, 2023
This article was first published on August 17, 2023
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In my experience, using shared hyperlinks in any situation is a bad idea. I don’t know how many times I have opened a document where the hyperlinks are all fine, and the next time I open it, half of them are all broken. Nice idea if it worked properly.