What Do Angle Brackets Mean in the Links Panel?
So I just opened this file someone sent me, and it said there were a bunch of missing graphics. That’s not surprising, but when I went to look in the Links panel, I saw something really unusual:
What are those blue angle brackets doing in there, where the page numbers usually are listed? Clicking on them didn’t do anything (clicking on the blue, underlined numbers usually takes you to the image). Clicking the Go to Image button at the bottom of the panel didn’t do anything. I couldn’t find the images anywhere in the document… until it occurred to me that there can be content inside an InDesign document that isn’t on any page! Content can be imported into the XML Structure pane.
In fact, when I click the twirly triangle in the lower-left corner of the Links panel (or double-click the image in the Links panel) to open the Link Information section of the panel, it tells me exactly where that link is:
Yup: The angle brackets mean that the link is in XML only. Wacky. I opened the XML Structure Pane (View > Structure) and deleted the XML — which wasn’t actually tagged to anything in the document anyway, as it turns out:
Then all those items disappeared from the Links panel. Whew!
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David’s tips really help. I pile in just about every feature designed for single-source with ultimate destination to Print, PDF, and eBook (Kindle, specifically).
There’s definitely a lot of power in InDesign and it seems like that more and more of features found in FrameMaker have been introduced in CS4 and CS5 to the point that I wouldn’t build books with anything else (Principles of Software Development Leadership, InDesign to Kindle, …). I have found that InDesign on Windows is far slower than Mac — and that could be due to differences in memory management.
If performance optimization is more important to users, I wish there was a way to vote and help Adobe prioritize. One big win would possibly be in CS6 follows Photoshop with true 64-bit support. By the way, performance can be solved — I could rebuild a FrameMaker 400 page book full of tables, cross-references, drawings, and images in seconds. I’m sure Adobe can run competitive benchmarks and find that InDesign could use a performance overhaul.
Ken
Seattle, WA
@Ken: ‘If performance optimization is more important to users, I wish there was a way to vote and help Adobe prioritize ? performance can be solved ? I could rebuild a FrameMaker 400 page book ? in seconds’
There is a way to help: become a beta tester.
When comparing ID’s to Framemaker’s, though, one must remember that the Adobe Graphics Model used by InDesign is a RIP that processes the PostScript instructions and “prints” to the screen while FrameMaker uses the Windows GDI for display (and for printing).
LTM
‘When comparing ID’s performance to Framemaker’s ?’ I meant
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