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exchange low res picture to high res when exporting

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    • October 14, 2013 at 10:46 am #65778
      Ronni HÌüirup
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      I have a project with lots of pictures and thinking there must be a function that makes it possible to work with low-resolution images through to export and then to replace them if the images is called img_1342_low.jpg and img_1342_high.tiff and are placed in diferent folders..

      I have looked and Google’d a lot..
      Please help with a tuts or what you know..

      /Ronni

    • October 15, 2013 at 9:02 am #65805
      Anonymous
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      If you kept two folders, one called ‘Low’ with the low res pictures in, and one called ‘High’ with the hires, you could set your document up with all of the LR images. Then when the time came you could move the ‘Low’ folder somewhere else in your file structure. InDesign would lose the links and display a yellow alert triangle. Then you can pick the first image and relink it to the appropriate image in the ‘High’ folder. ID will then update all of the images with the hires equivalents. This will only work if they have the same name, however.

      To be honest, since ID works on a linked basis and you have the option of viewing different resolutions when working on a file, I would just put the hires files in from the start, but this would work.

    • October 15, 2013 at 8:08 pm #65811
      Bob Rubey
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      Salieri’s suggestion will work, but using Relink to Folder would be a better solution than the hide ‘n’ seek option: https://creativepro.com/relink-from-one-image-file-type-to-another.php

      However, I believe Ronni is looking for something more akin to OPI or Scitex’s APR (Automatic Picture Replacement). Here’s what looks to be an old explanation: https://www.iptech.com/Home/News/Feature_Article/feature_article_-_why_we_still.html

      I used Scitex APR “back in the day” but it hardly seems necessary nowadays as Salieri implies.

      Ronni, I assume you must have quite a handful of images to make the query. I can’t say I’ve ever seen such a thing. My sense is that you need somehing like the Relink to Folder ability added to the PEU (Page Exporter Utility) script. I’m not a scripter, so I don’t even know if that’s possible.

      Sorry, I know that’s not much help. Good luck.

      Bob

    • October 15, 2013 at 11:38 pm #65816
      Ronni HÌüirup
      Member

      Bob Rubey..

      Amazing.. Exactly what I was looking for..
      I’m going for “relink to folder”..

      Thank you, thank you..
      Great information and I shared it with all my colleges..

      /Ronni

    • October 16, 2013 at 4:24 am #65820
      Bob Rubey
      Member

      Ronni,

      Great. I’m glad that will work for you. The links panel has quite the feature set so don’t ever dismiss it.

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