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• • September 8, 2011 at 5:13 pm #60481
    Josh Freeman

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    I just received a long document that is full of embedded bitmap images (Photoshop EPS, for some reason). It was created by a well-meaning newbie who apparently didn't understand about placing images conventionally.

    I'm trying to get them all out of the document and into a folder as individual files so I can edit them in Photoshop and then place them the way you normallly build files in ID CS5.

    Does anyone know how to do this? Is there an Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week-eek-eek-eek that does this? A script?

    Help!

    (Thanks.)

  • September 8, 2011 at 7:10 pm #60482
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

    Member

    It's actually pretty simple, and I often embed images in an InDesign file if it's going to be moving around alot.

    Just shift-click to select all the embedded images in the Links panel, and then choose Unembed Link from the Links panel menu.

    You'll get a dialog box asking if you want to link to the original files or have ID create (extract and link to) the files. Choose the option where you have InDesign extract the files. Then it asks you to choose a folder to extract them to. Choose one, and then let 'er rip.

    Then end! Works like a charm.

    AM

    • October 12, 2022 at 7:44 am #14373393
      Randy Devost

      Participant

      This solution worked great but I wonder if this keeps the original resolution of the file?

    • October 12, 2022 at 9:57 am #14373406
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      Yes, embedding and unembedding does not seem to change image resolution or degrade the image in any way, as far as I can tell.

    • October 12, 2022 at 1:34 pm #14373413
      Randy Devost

      Participant

      Perfect. I also did some testing while working on the job and using this method to ‘extract’ the images produces the same quality and size file as adding a .zip suffix to a Word file and then unarchiving and collecting the Media assets.

  • September 8, 2011 at 10:28 pm #60483
    Josh Freeman

    Member

    Wow. Thanks so much, Anne-Marie! I figured it had to be there someplace, but nothing showed up when I searched Adobe help or these forums for “export embedded images”. What a great resource this site is….thank you guys for all the work you do on it.

    (BTW, I found out what happened — they had imported a Word file that had the images already inserted in it, and they just left them in place.)

  • March 6, 2014 at 5:01 am #67466
    Akansha Shrivastava

    Member

    Hi Anne-Marie,

    I am not getting the option of Unembed Link from the Links panel menu. Please help.

  • October 23, 2017 at 10:55 am #99183
    Malik Aziz

    Member

    I second that. What can I do, if all the images have been pasted and DON’T show up in the links palette (not even as “MF”, whatever that means)?

  • October 23, 2017 at 11:37 am #99186
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Pasted images don’t show up in the Links panel. It is NOT a good practice to paste images. You can sometimes get the image out again by copying it and pasting into Photoshop. Then save from there, delete the pasted version in InDesign, and import it properly with File > Place.

  • October 23, 2017 at 11:46 am #99187
    Malik Aziz

    Member

    Thanks, I solved it now by CMD-Alt-C on every single image, then export them to HTML – but it remains a shitty job. I agree, it is not a good practice – but it is an even worse state of InDesign that it let’s you paste images in but then prevents you from properly handling them again.

    • October 23, 2017 at 3:25 pm #99191
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Why blame InDesign?

      I mean, my car can go 100+ miles an hour, but if I get caught doing it, the cops will give me a speeding ticket and I will pay a hefty fine. Is it the car manufacturer’s fault?

  • April 2, 2019 at 7:06 pm #115775
    Rik Hocking

    Member

    If you have an InDesign document with a lot of pasted in images. Export the INDD to PDF (PDF 1.4 or greater to avoid slicing). Open the PDF in Acrobat Pro and Export All Images. I usually choose the TIFF option to avoid lossy compression. You may also want to rename the image files after, but it’s a somewhat automated solution for when you have a lot of pasted in images.

  • May 16, 2019 at 12:18 pm #116564
    Filip Mond

    Member

    How can I identify them in document (since they are not listed in Links panel)?

    What I can do in case I have like a 400 pages InD full of images, but only few of them are pasted from web browser.
    (I can’t use Rik’s extraction from PDF since I need to keep all properly placed images in their original locations with their max quality)

    Thank you for help.
    I would sware this drag&drop images were in older version listed as embed.
    Usually I do import properly, I just had a hard time with client so I wanted to make a quicker sketch.
    Now I can’t recognise which ones are for replacement.

    • May 16, 2019 at 1:06 pm #116565
      Filip Mond

      Member

      OK, I found them under Layers tab as <pasted graphic>, but like that I had to go page by page to scan layers if there is any.
      So, does exist any way to do like “unpaste” graphics by one click for all?

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