Why does Indesign 3.0.1 Lose Graphics Links after closing Document 2

[Boham]

I am in Adobe InDesign 3.0.1. I have "Placed" WMF formated graphics in my documents. I have not moved the graphics (that will be a question). Everytime I close out of my document, and go back into it, the document loses the links to the graphics. InDesign does not embed the graphics into the document. It creates a link, whether you copy and paste, insert, or do it the right way and "Place" it. But if I don't move the location or rename the location of the graphic, it should not lose the links.

 

[jimoblak]

From where are you placing the WMF file? Is it on a network or your local drive? Is the INDD file on a network or a local drive?

 

[Boham]

Both the graphics and the Document reside in the same folder on a network drive. When I go in to relink the graphics I have move the graphics between a folder and subfolder for instance... I open the document and create the links with the graphics in the primary folder, after closing the document and returning to it, the links are missing. In order to relink them, I have to move the graphics to a subfolder and create my links. Upon opening the document a third time, the links are missing and in order to link the graphics I have to move them back to the primary folder. I never rename them or change the name of the two folders just move them from one folder to the next to recreate the links after the previous links are lost. Also note that this is happening on two different documents that I am working on..

 

[jmgalvin]

It's a network thing. ID doesn't normally lose links to graphics unless you move them or rename them.

If possible, it would probably be easiest to store a folder for the ID doc on your machine and them put it on the server when you're done with it for the day or whatever. You could also try packaging the project and see if the links hold.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Boham]

OK, I saved both the document and the wmf files in C on my computer. I relinked each graphic the long way, by clicking where I needed the picture, then file, Paste and then chose the graphic where I had resaved it. I did this for each graphic in my document.

Then I saved it, closed it, then reopened the document and all of the links broke again.

What am I doing? This is driving my crazy!!

 

[jmgalvin]

I assume you meant "place" and not "paste" when you said replaced the graphics.

Try this. Get the thing open with the pics placed and then go to File menu/package and package the thing. This will create a new folder with the document, a sub folder called links and another subfolder with fonts. See if the links hold. Open the doc from the folder you just made and see if the links hold. The link will now be folder/links/image name. If that holds you were doing something wrong. If things break read bel;ow.

I'm not familiar with this WMF format but if ID placed the images, I guess it's supported since you can place the images.

If things are still going wacky, the most common cause is corrupted preferences. You can quit ID and trash prefs. Since you mentioned c drive, i assume you're on a pc. I use Mac so I don't know what Windows calls ID prefs nor where they are stored. You can search this forum for the answer as it's been given many times in the past.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Boham]

jmgalvin,

Thank you so much for your assistance. We aren't sure which piece of your advise actually resolved the issue as we did all of it moving it from the network and resetting preferences. Originally we thought this didn't fix the issue entirely however we later found out that what we thought was corruption after moving it off the network was actually the pics being presented in low res format.

Again thanks for the help!

 

[signal49]

I'm glad to hear you solved the link problem, but I want to warn you about using wmf files. If this is just something you're printing yourself or if it's black and white, don't worry about it. But if you're sending this out for full- or spot-color printing that needs separations you're going to have problems. WMF files are RGB only and can't be edited in Photoshop to change to CMYK. They will not separate correctly and will look really strange and washed out.

 

[Boham]

Thank you signal49, We are infact sending this out for full color printing etc. Thus far we have not had any issues however; this is only the second manual that we have completed. I will notify the developer and suggest changes to the image type.