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• • September 22, 2016 at 3:15 am #88592
    RWVVV

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    Hello fellow InDesigners,

    I’m using Indesign to create mockups for websites. (I have found ID to be perfect for this, with styles, text frame formatting etc. Easy to convert into actual webdesign, but this is offtopic.)

    A minor nuisance:

    Now in one of my files I have a .jpg file of which its link is broken. Boohoo, I don’t care about the link. It will still export without issue to an interactive pdf. The .jpg is deleted from my SSD, yet it’s still embedded in my ID file. So since the file is gone forever on my SSD, I have no intention of relinking it, nor will I be able to.

    My question is, how do I make Indesign stop asking to relink this sonofa***? Clearly there is a copy of the file somewhere, or Indesign wouldn’t be able to show it. I’m a bit tired getting notifications about it when opening the file.

  • September 22, 2016 at 5:32 am #88593
    David Blatner

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    Hi RWVVV: Great idea to wireframe in InDesign. You might be interested in learning more about that process here:
    https://creativepro.com/issues/issue-69-wireframing-prototyping
    and
    https://creativepro.com/indesign-create-uxui-designs.php

    As for your missing image problem: It’s tricky. What you’re seeing in InDesign is a low-res preview that is embedded in the document. You could have embedded the full image by choosing Embed from the links panel menu, before you deleted it. But now that it’s deleted, you have two choices:

    a) You could turn off the warnings, in the File Handling pane of the Preferences dialog box

    b) or you could select the image inside the frame (double click it), copy the image out to the clipboard, paste it in photoshop, re-save it as a jpeg (probably lower res than your original, but you don’t care), re-place it in InDesign, embed it in the links panel menu, and then delete the file on disk again.

  • September 22, 2016 at 5:56 am #88595
    RWVVV

    Member

    Hey David,

    Thanks a lot. That simple mental leap of copying it to photoshop hadn’t occurred to me!

    And yes, wireframing exercises are a blast in Indesign. I used to do it in Illustrator, but that was an utterly frustrating experience with huge files and misbehaving text bits.

  • December 19, 2019 at 10:27 am #14323415
    Aaron Linsdau

    Member

    I made a video that may help. Instead of having to do manual work, the export methods I talk about only require a few clicks. I was suffering before, too, until I learned these. And now, I share to help!
    

  • April 6, 2020 at 2:08 am #1236894
    Nilesh Parmar

    Member

    thank you

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