2 Questions: Image Relinking & Batch EPSing

[TheRochester]

I have two main problems with InDesign that I have not been able to work out.
I'm on a Mac G4 OS 9.2, using InDesign 2.0.1. I'm working on a network with several other machines. All of our documents and images are located on a shared drive that we all have access to.

1st: When I open a document, all the links show up as modified. Clicking "Fix All" works, but it wastes time (especially on a large ad with many images).
It only happens when a different user was the last person who worked on the ad (If I were to save my changes, close, then reopen, all the links would be intact).

2nd: On press day, we have to export all of our ads to .EPS files prior to starting our pagination. This is tedious and time consuming and I need a way to speed up the process. I've looked into trying to create an AppleScript script, but it's too confusing for me.
I did find a way to do batch PDF exporting, but our imagesetter freaks out whenever we have too many PDFs on one page.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[jimoblak]

1: this happens when individuals on the same network do not share the same time. You need to calibrate your clocks, either manually or through your network server.

2: I tried InPrint (

http://www.alap.com/products/intools.html)

once. It might allow you to export several EPS at once.

3: update to 2.0.2 just for kicks

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[jmgalvin]

Indesign CS has Version Cue for solving your first problem but, of course it requires OSX.

The only answer I can come up with on #2 is to create an Indesign book and export it as a PDF. Then open the pdf in Acrobat (full) and save as EPS. If you could get away with Postscript files rather than Encapsulated Postscript, you could create an Indesign book and print an Adobe (or any) PS.

It's odd that you can't use PDF in place of eps. The only format I ever receive ads in, any more, is PDF. That's all the companies send me.

 

[JavaJedi]

How do you batch export a chunk of .indd files to PDF? I have not yet found a way to do this but I have an immediate need for it. I am looking at PDF'ing over 300 files and really don't want to do each one by hand. Thanks!!

-Aaron