Tip of the Week: New Links Panel Icons

This InDesign tip on the new Links panel icons was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on August 18, 2016.

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If you work in a collaborative environment where you share files with colleagues, you’re probably used to mysterious things popping up in InDesign from time to time. For example, you might spot some icons you’ve never seen before in the Links panel.

Like a shopping cart, three dots, and a cloud.

The shopping cart means the image is an unlicensed Adobe Stock image. You can also see its status is unlicensed if you’re showing Link Info in the Links panel.

So someone searched Adobe Stock using the CC Libraries panel, and added a preview image to a library. And then they added the preview image to the InDesign layout. But they didn’t choose to license the image yet.

Double-clicking the shopping cart icon in the Links panel is a shortcut to license the image.

While the image is being licensed, you’ll see three dots in the Links panel, like a progress bar of sorts. And the Link Info status tells you it’s being downloaded.

And when the image is finished downloading, you’ll see a cloud icon.

Also notice that the Adobe Stock watermark is now gone from the image in the layout, another clue that the image is licensed, visible even without the Links panel open.

Thanks to Bart Van de Wiele for pointing this out!

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