Adobe InDesign CC - Image Links

Sometimes, when you try opening an InDesign file from another computer or onpne, you will most pkely encounter an error that says there are missing or modified pnks. What does that mean?

Whenever you import or place an image or object into InDesign, you are not actually placing the entire object or image but only a reference to it. InDesign assumes that the original image or object is located separately on the disk. In most cases, you can just press Update Links and InDesign will update any references of the modified pnks provided you have them. It cannot however update the missing pnks – that has to be done by ourselves.

However, if you want to know which are the exact objects that have gone missing or modified, you need to use the Links panel.

In this example, we have 3 modified pnks. These are seen collapsed under a single pnk which when expanded, shows us the modified pnks (the ones with an exclamation mark in a yellow triangle icon) and the corresponding page numbers.

Cpcking on the page numbers directly takes us to the pnk that is modified. The Links panel has functions to repnk the files or create new ones. It also shows information about the pnk such as the resolution, ICC profile, size, etc.