Or, to update all of them, click the top-most “parent” link (the one with the twirl-down-triangle next to it) and click the Update button in the panel. You can update the linked duplicates by clicking once on the Modified icon in the upper left-corner of the object, or double-clicking on the icon in the Links panel. For example, in the image below, when I change the fill color, the duplicates get a “modified” icon next to them.
When you make a change to the original, InDesign might inform you that the linked duplicates are out of sync and need to be modified. (I really wish Adobe had made it more obvious which is the original… it should have a different icon attached to it or something.) If it’s grayed out, then the one you selected probably is the original. So now the question is: How do we update the linked images when the original image changes? Actually, even before that: How do we know which image is the original and which are the clones? You can always find the original object by selecting one of them and choosing Edit > Go to Source. Glancing at the panel, we can see that there are 2 linked objects and 3 total images in the document. If you place more than one linked duplicate, the Links panel looked even more odd:Īgain, the ones with the brackets are the linked objects, and the ones without the brackets are the images themselves. In this case, note that I had dragged the Content Placer tool (rather than clicking), so my duplicate has been scaled down smaller than the original. That bracketed one is the duplicate - the clone that is linked to the original. In the above image, you’ll see that the image shows up twice, but it is also listed a third time in angle brackets. When you choose this, you can click (or click and drag) and the place cursor stays loaded, ready for you to click again.Īfter you place the linked duplicate, the Links panel updates in kind of a weird way: Tip: If you want to place the same graphic multiple times, click the middle cryptic button at the bottom of the Conveyor (the one that looks like blocks falling out of a box). (If you want to learn more about the Content Conveyor, read and watch this.) You can now use the Content Placer tool (which acts like the normal Place gun) to place the duplicate object anywhere you want in your document. When you select an object (say, a graphic frame with an image in it) and choose Place and Link, InDesign loads the frame up into the Conveyor and the Tool panel switches to the Content Placer tool. And, even cooler, you can tell InDesign what attributes it should sync up and which it should leave alone. This feature (first introduced in CS6) lets you keep two or more objects in sync. Place and Linkįortunately, there is a solution: the Edit > Place and Link feature. That way, when you change the object style definition, each object tagged with that style would change.īut neither the Links panel nor object styles will help when it comes to keeping the graphic’s size or rotation in sync. If you want to keep the fill or stroke synced up across all the images (or text wrap, or various other attributes you), you could use object styles. To change them all, just select the image that has the triangle next to it (the “group leader” or whatever you want to call it) and click the Relink button. When you place the same image multiple times, they all get “grouped” together in the Links panel with a little twirly triangle next to them. It’s easy to swap out all the identical images with another with the Links panel. If you replace one with a different image, you want them all to change. That is, if you scale and rotate one, you want them all to scale and rotate. Sometimes you want to have the same image in a number of different places in your document… and update them all at the same time.
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